Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center
The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center serves South Dakota State University, the Brookings community and the region. It is a state-of-the-art performing arts center that is the home for concerts, theatrical and dance performances, special events and Ƶ’s School of Performing Arts.
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Featured Events
CAPERS!
Alpha Psi Omega invites you to watch this year’s CAPERS production! This performance is focused on including a broad range of students from across campus to come together and create an experience filled with acting, comedy, singing, and dance.
Performing Arts Organizations
The Oscar has multiple event series - Brookings Chamber Music Society, Brookings Community Theatre, Brookings School District, School of Performing Arts Music, Prairie Repertory Theatre, State University Theatre and Dance, and Woodbine Productions.
Performance Spaces and Facilities
Looking for a place to host a business meeting, an event or a wedding? The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center has what you need.
About The Oscar
The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center’s mission is to engage its community through artistic, educational and cultural experiences that enrich lives, promote lifelong learning in and through the performing arts, and serve as a gateway between Ƶ and the greater community.
News from The oscar larson performing arts center
Artist Dessa to deliver Harding Distinguished Lecture
American musician, writer and speaker Dessa will share her inspiration as a multi-disciplinary artist when she delivers the Harding Distinguished Lecture on Jan. 23 at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center. The artist will also share her appreciation for the far-reaching impact of the liberal arts, humanities and social sciences at the 6 p.m. event in Founders Recital Hall on the South Dakota State University campus.
Ƶ Theatre and Dance to present encore of ‘Fuddy Meers’
South Dakota State University Theatre and Dance’s fall 2024 production of “Fuddy Meers” by David Lindsay-Abaire has been selected to be presented at the 57th annual Region 5 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 21. To help defray the costs of taking the production to Des Moines, a one-night-only fundraising performance of the show will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Oscar Larson Theatre in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center on the Ƶ campus.
A/B Duo to perform at Ƶ
The South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts presents the A/B Duo on Monday, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.