American Society of Theatre Consultants

The primary objective of the ASTC is to inform owners, users, and planners about the services theatre consultants offer and the value of those services for effective and economically viable performance and assembly facilities, whether the project is large or small, new construction, or renovation.

Members of the ASTC are professional theatre consultants who have demonstrated the broad range of capability and experience necessary to qualify for membership. As professionals, the ASTC’s members have individual and collective interests in providing unbiased, functionally sound, and practical consulting and design services for performance and assembly facilities to owners, users, architects, and engineers. These interests are reflected in the objectives and programs of the Society.


ASTC Latest Articles and News!

June 2, 2025

Planning for the Crew

While it is important to understand the unique needs of performers and the public, another group is often forgotten in space planning. Just because they wear a lot of black and stay out of the public’s view it does not mean their needs should be forgotten. Let’s find some room for the stage crew.
June 1, 2025

Quietly Teaching Rock ‘n’ Roll

ASTC Member Howard Glickman reflects on how performance lighting has changed over the years. Those changes have got him thinking about how systems might be designed to better train students of today for the work of tomorrow, regardless of their career trajectory. Every consultant has different approaches to the design of lighting controls systems. This is an idea Howard considers a possible path.
May 13, 2025

Backstage Art – Spring 2025

Continuing our series of art found backstage, a different look at how a venue remembers the shows that have come through a building. This time a look backstage at the LA Forum in Inglewood (now Kia Forum).