Balch Arena Theater

The Balch Arena Theater is a distinctive performance space tucked within the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University in Medford. Opened in nineteen ninety-one, the theater is named in honor of Marston Balch, who served as a professor of dramatics at the university for thirty-seven years. It is designed to host performances in the round, a format for staging productions where the audience surrounds the actors on all sides.