UCSD to Announce Contribution to Build Theater Arts Complex

A major donation that “lays the foundation” for a new theater arts complex at UC San Diego will be announced today by university officials. School officials would give no details before today’s news conference, but it is known that the school has a critical shortage of performance and rehearsal space. Despite the opening of the state-of-the-art, 500-seat Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts in 1982, the only other dramatic arts stage at the campus is the tiny Warren Theatre. A former World War II boiler room at Camp Mathews, the Warren was converted into a 260-seat theater patterned after the Guthrie in Minneapolis by faculty and students in 1971.