Platt Student Performing Arts House

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Platt Student Performing Arts House provides leadership and support for the creation and implementation of arts programming for students at the University of Pennsylvania.

Supporting Penn’s 70+ student performing arts groups, which stage over 100 comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, and music events each year. Committing to the learning and development of student artists through trainings, workshops, masterclasses, and career mentorship. Facilitating youth arts mentorship, community outreach, and engagement with the regional arts industry.

Address

3702 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Events

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World Monuments Fund Lecture

Penn Museum

Lecture/panel discussion

Feb 26

2025-26 Penn Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Leilah Weinraub

Institute for Contemporary Art

Lecture/panel discussion

Feb 26

Cinema & Media Studies | Screening of Outsider. Freud

School of Arts & Sciences

Feb 27

Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies | Screening and Panel Discussion of Yair Qedar’s new film, “Outsider, Freud”

School of Arts & Sciences

Feb 27

Wharton Follies

Penn Live Arts

Feb 26 – Feb 27

Gallery Tour

Penn Museum

Feb 28

News

Feb 21, 2026

Incorporating arts-based inquiry into literacy classrooms

Arts at Penn

“Super/Natural” by Judith Schaechter at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa.

Feb 21, 2026

A Philadelphia Glass Artist Has Made a Secular Sanctuary for the Ages

Arts at Penn

Tools lined up on a pegboard at the Precision Machining Laboratory in Towne Hall.

Jan 21, 2026

People and Places at Penn: Makerspaces

Arts at Penn

Jan 16, 2026

Sizing up Pennsylvania’s creative workforce

Arts at Penn

Who, What, Why - Portrait of Bea Hammam at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Jan 15, 2026

Who, What, Why: Third-year gets a taste of the film biz

Arts at Penn

Sosena Solomon, a lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences

Dec 8, 2025

Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Arts at Penn

LensBright, Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney

Nov 30, 2025

Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship

Arts at Penn

Nov 11, 2025

Monumental sculpture celebrated on Penn’s campus

Arts at Penn

Nov 7, 2025

Cultural Curation

Arts at Penn

Meryl Krieger mentors high school students as part of her volunteering with the Philadelphia nonprofit Project 440.

Nov 7, 2025

Teaching creative Philadelphia youth career and entrepreneurship skills

Arts at Penn

Platt House Content

PAC Shop

Student Groups

Spaces

Programs

SPAN (Student Performing Arts Night)

SPAN brings together 50+ student performing arts groups and hundreds of new Penn performing artists for a whirlwind collage of short, get-to-know-you performances. Organized and produced by the PAC Executive Board with support from Platt Student Performing Arts House and the PAC Shop, this night of entertainment invites all students, but especially first-year and transfer students, to get a taste for the wide variety of performing clubs at Penn before entering audition season each fall.

SPAN