Original Manager of DePauw's Performing Arts Center Announces Major Project at California's Bob Hope Cultural Center

February 19, 2006

February 19, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - In the Coachella Valley of Southern California today, plans will be announced for an $80 million expansion of the McCallum Theatre at the Bob Hope Cultural Center of Palm Desert. Ted Giatas is president and CEO of the Theatre, and an article in the Desert Sun notes that he began his career by overseeing the construction of a new 2,500 seat theater at Penn State University and in the early 1970s, and eventually directed Penn State's performing arts center. "In 1976, he moved to DePauw University in Indiana and repeated the experience. He dedicated the DePauw Performing Arts Center and then managed it. It includes a 1,458-seat Kresge Auditorium, a 403-seat theater, a 216-seat recital hall and an experimental theater, a multi-purpose room, three libraries and many smaller facilities."

Read about Giatas in this story, and learn about plans for the not-for-profit McCallum Theatre, in this newspaper report.

At DePauw, work is under way on a $29 million expansion and renovation of DePauw's 32-year-old Performing Arts Center (architect's rendering seen above right). The project is made possible by a $15 million dollar lead gift by Judson Green and his wife, Joyce Taglauer Green '75. The building, home to the School of Music and department of communication, will be known as the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. Construction should be completed by the Fall of 2007. Learn more in this previous story.

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