Agassiz Theatre

Agassiz Theatre is the 330-seat amphitheater inside Agassiz House at 5 James Street, finished in 1904. The seats rise around the stage, and a balcony looks down on them, which suits a comic opera as well as a play. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players make their home here.

They stage the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, and other Harvard companies borrow the room when they have a play or a musical of their own. From those seats a chorus and a lead singer are both easy to see. The theater sits in Radcliffe Yard, a short walk from the shops in Harvard Square.