Omaha's Holland Theater:- 2000 seat main theater
- 300 seat recital hall
- "founders room" which is basically a bar room for donors
Omaha also retained its classic vaudeville Orpheum theater - seats 2600
Jonh Beasley Theater (private) - seats 125
Creighton's Lied Education Center for the Arts - seats 350
All of those are pretty much downtown.
Tulsa has:
The PAC:
-Chapman Music Hall - 2365 seats
-John H. Williams Theater - 421
- Liddy Doenges Theater - 100 to 300
- Charles E. Norman Theater - 100 to 200
- Kathleen P. Westby Pavilion - conference room for 240
- Robert Lafortune Studio - seats up to 200
The University of Tulsa:
- Chapman Theater - 375
- Lorton Performance Center - 635
- Tyrell Hall Auditorium - 108
- Various other facilities listed that aren't really theaters (such as Reynolds center, etc.)
ORU:
- Howard Auditorium - 1000
- (various other facilities, like the Maybe Center)
TCC
- VanTrease Performing Arts Center - 1500
- Studio Theater - seating for 20
- theater space at every campus that holds are least 250 (including downtown)
Tulsa Ballet:
- Studio K - 295 seats
- Studio B, C, D, E, and F... each seating up to 200 (these are open space, not really theater space)
A good number of private theaters:
- American Theatre Company, 2 rooms each at 3000 square feet
- Tulsa Little Theater
- Spotlight Theater
Of course there are numerous lecture facilities, meeting rooms, conference facilities (OSU Tulsa, OU Tulsa, Langston, hotels, etc.), the convention center, the Expo Pavillion, churches and dozens of high school facilities too... not counting any of the suburbs (which Omaha doesn't really have).
So... I like the arts. I think art is as important as any other quality of life issue. But what is the PAC missing that it cannot accommodate without a tens of millions of dollar expansion? Many of the venues I listed are full theaters. Many handle the smaller performances.