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The '''Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre''' is a 688-seat proscenium-style theater inside [[Dodge Hall]], and is entered from Broadway on the corner of 116th Street. It was established in [[1988]]. Hosts plenty of events, many of which students can attend for free or at steeply discounted rates. For some reason the insist on charging Columbia organizations a crapload of money to use it. So they end up using the less performance-friendly [[Roone Arledge Auditorium]]. The acoustics are mediocre anyway.

== McMillin Academic Theater ==
Before its rebirth in 1988, Miller Theatre was known as the McMillin Academic Theater, in honor of [[Dodge Hall]]'s donor. McMillin seated an audience of 1,000 and had a smaller stage than Miller. [[Schuyler Chapin]] recalled his first trip into McMillin in [[1976]], when he took over as dean of the [[School of the Arts]]: "The chairs were falling apart, the stage was terrible, and when it rained, water ran down the center aisle. I said, 'You've got to be kidding.' But McMillin had a lot of history to it, so I really wanted to have it redone. Of course, when I first proposed doing that, I was given 89 reasons why it couldn't be done, the essential one being that there was no money." Chapin was able to secure a $1 million grant from the Kathryn and Gilbert Miller Fund along with donations from [[trustees]] to fund a $3 million renovation that was completed in 1988.

== Map ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.millertheatre.com/ Miller Theatre website]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DF1730F934A2575AC0A96E948260 For Columbia Theater, A Festive First Night], New York Times, September 17, 1988

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