Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson Street, Evanston, IL 60201, us
Cahn Auditorium (1940) is the largest performance space on campus, with more than 1,000 seats and an orchestra pit. One of the country’s most famous college productions, the annual Waa-Mu Show (begun in 1929), is staged here, as are many other productions each year. The auditorium was named for civic leader Bertram Cahn, donor, trustee, alumnus (class of 1899), and chairman of the clothier B. Kuppenheimer and Company.
View the Cahn Auditorium seating chart as a PDF document.
Free parking is available after 4 p.m. on weekdays, as well as all day on weekends, in the garage south of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at 50 Arts Circle Drive. Free parking is also available in the university lot west of Lutkin Hall at 700 University Place, and on University Place. Limited street parking is available on Emerson Street. Paid parking is available in the Church Street self-park garage, located at the intersection of Church Street and Chicago Avenue. For more details and directions, click the map below.
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