The Main Stage Theatre at FRA was finished for the 1999-2000 school year. The 650-seat facility is a state-of-the art theatre that you would find professional theatre companies using all over the country. The main level of the theatre has sloped seating for 600 so there are no bad seats. There is also a 150-seat balcony with the same sloped seating arrangement providing a great view of the stage from every seat in the house. Our backstage area includes a 3 story fly-loft, storage for our tools, equipment, and set pieces we use for all of our shows.

The facility has the best state-of-the art equipment at its disposal. Each year new projects are implemented to improve the equipment so that we stay on the cutting edge in our performance space. We have made significant improvements and advancements in our sound equipment, lighting rig, and video projection and production. Below you will find detailed information and pictures of our equipment.

FRA also opens the Main Stage Theatre for rental. We have been a part of many great community events. Some of the events that the Main Stage has hosted:

• A filming of a Toyota commercial
• The Miss Music City Pageant (pre-pageant to the Miss Tennessee and then to the Miss America Pageant)
• Many dance performances from all around the middle Tennessee area, and
• Community outreaches with Salama Urban Ministries to inner-city youth in the areas of creative and performing arts

If you are interested in receiving information for the rental of our facilities, please complete this form.

View photographs of the equipment in the photo gallery.

Lighting Equipment

• Our light board is an ETC Express 48/96 console with Emphasis 3D 500 Server
• A Radio Remote Focus Unit
• 30+ ETC Source 4 instruments, Fresnels, Par cans, cyc lighting equipment
• Portable lighting rig with 8 par cans and a small console for events outside of the theatre

Sound Equipment

• 40 Channel Yamaha GADiversity M3000 board
• 1 Yamaha DME24N digital processor
• 2 Composer Pro Audio Interactive Dynamics Processer Model: MDX2200
• Yamaha SDX990 Effects Machine
• Clearcom: PLPro MS-232
• Tascam CD-RW/Tape combo unit CC-222
• Tascam CD/Tape combo unit CD-A500
• Tascam Date Machine DA-20 MKII
• 2 Shure UHF (model# U4D-UB) Wireless receivers with Mics and body-pacs
• Shure 58s and 57s handheld mics
• 2 portable sound systems for functions and events outside of the theatre
• 1 external 80gig Glyph drive for remote audio work
• ProTools with MBox

Video Projection Equipment

• 16 Channel Mackie audio mixer that provides audio for all pieces of video projection equipment
• 1 Silicon Optix Image AnyPlace to adjust the image on the screen and video switcher/scalier for all input devices
• Eiki 5000 lumen LC-X70 projector
• Crestron CP2E control processor controls all input devices from 2 touchpanels from in the theatre an the ability to control from a computer and Ipaq from anywhere with an internet access.
• 2 Crestron CT-1550 wired 5.7" Tabletop Touchpanels
• Tascam DV-D6500 DVD player
• JVC SR-V101US SVHS player
• 1 Extron VGA switcher to enable switching between the podium and booth computers
• Extron RGB 464xi wall plate backstage to control DVD/VCR and computer input at the stage level
• Da-Lite 12'x16' electric screen
• 1 NEC 42" Plasma Monitor to provide a live video/audio feed from theatre to the main lobby

Video Production Equipment

• 2 Canon MiniDV cameras, 1 Sony Digital 8 camera
• Powerbook G4
• Final Cut Pro
• Live Type
• Soundtrack
• DVD Studio Pro
• Adobe Creative Suite CS
• 1 Terabyte external Firewire 800 drive for video
• 1 external USB 250gig drive for audio
• 1 Primera BravoII CD/DVD duplicator and printer
• G5 tower w/20" Cinema screen
• Final Cut Studio 5
• Canon XL1 video camera