Clowes Memorial Hall

The Butler Arts & Events Center (BAEC) is home to Butler University’s event facilities including performance venues, conference and meeting rooms, outdoor spaces, and housing. Its performance venues welcome more than 300,000 visitors annually, with 35,000 from the student matinee series. The BAEC is comprised of five venues including its flagship 2148 seat venue Clowes Memorial Hall; the Schrott Center for the Arts with 475 seats; Shelton Auditorium with nearly 400 seats; Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall with 135 seats and Lilly Hall Studio Theatre with up to 100 seats. Programming includes the Butler Arts Presents events, BAEC’s Education Matinee Series, Jordan College of the Arts performances, Broadway In Indianapolis shows, various Butler lecture series, performances from local performing arts organizations, and a variety of national touring shows.

Clowes Memorial Hall

Clowes Memorial Hall is the anchor of the Butler Arts & Events Center. With 2,148 seats and history of presenting artists dating back to 1963, the venue remains Indiana’s most versatile and professional performance space, having welcomed the world’s greatest talent and personalities—a star-studded list that ranges from poet Maya Angelou to the Crime Junkies Podcast; singer-songwriter John Prine to violinist Itzhak Perlman; comedian Bert Kreischer to Broadway’s Book of Mormon; singer-songwriter Sir Elton John to Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Live… and many more artists in between.