General Information

The chapel is on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center, and is accessible by elevator or stairs; a ramp next to the main entrance of the building provides wheelchair access. The room is approximately 59’ x 60’ and is divided by four large columns. Maximum audience capacity is 150.

Floors are wood and flat (not raked). Walls are wood panel up to ten feet, then plaster. The large white wall behind the stage can be used as a projection screen. Heating is hot water radiators (mostly quiet but occasionally klunky). There is no air conditioning.

Acoustics are quite reverberant. The room sounds wonderful for most unamplified music. However, it is a little trickier for unamplified speaking voice, drums, and electric instruments. A movable curtain along the backstage wall allows for some control of the acoustics.

There are 27 windows of stained glass, each about 4’ x 8’ or 4' x 6'. Most of the lower ones open, but some do not. There are currently no window shades, so the room can not be blacked out. We hope to have some in the future.

Ceiling is 28 feet, covered in acoustic tile; lights are hung from three pipes on the ceiling (upstage, middle of house, rear of house) and two vertical box booms on the side walls.

Stage is approximately 20’ wide x 13’ deep and is a raised platform eight inches above the main floor (at this time there are no additional risers).

There is a lobby area just outside the entrance to the Chapel with room for ticket sales/concessions/merchandise sales. Two spacious dressing rooms with direct access to restrooms are located at the rear of the Chapel, opposite the stage. Lights are accessed with a one-person lift.

150 padded chairs that stack on rolling carts; no bleachers or seating platforms. We also have a 1920s Knabe 9-foot concert grand piano.

Although the space can be used for dance and theater performances, be aware that there are currently no window coverings, wings, backstage area, catwalk or lighting grid; no floor or side lights; no place to build or store sets; and hours of access are limited. So the space may not be suitable for elaborate theatrical productions. But if you have a more simple presentation, it could be just the thing.