Shetler Studios

I’m OBSESSED with PH1! It’s my favorite place to film myself and the weekend rates are unbeatable!

This review is about the rehearsal space rental business.
PROS: Convenient location. Good availability if you book a couple of days in advance. Professional and courteous booking agents on the phone and in person.
CONS: Not cleaned and maintained well enough.

I’ve booked a room for auditions often and I always had a good experience here. The rooms are great, staff is very nice and professional and the rates are very affordable.

I always come here when I need to rehearse for an acting audition or class. I usually take one of the PH studios because a mirror is in the room and I like to see myself when I practice. There’s usually a lot of singing and instrumental playing going on but I never mind. There are a lot of other options, as well.
There’s always a room available for me. Overall this is my go-​to place whenever I need to rehearse.

Saw a great new musical at Shetler’s Theatre 54 tonight called Love Quirks! Absolutely charming and hilarious! A fantastic score that had me in tears at some points while guffaws at others! So relatable and the actors were amazing, too! It runs through Sept 28^th!
. The main actor is handsome!

I like this place. I am a lifelong guitarist and performer but a beginning piano student. I can’t afford a piano for my tiny apartment in Brooklyn, but I can afford $ 10 an hour for the «off-​off» rates to practice at Shetler. I love the authentic Broadway vibe here. The room was clean, quiet, and well-​appointed. The piano was a *tiny* bit out of tune, but honestly it didn’t bother me, banging tunes blissfully out of my grandmother’s hymnbook. tune that piano and I’ll give it another star.

Although I’ve had several classes and auditions at this space and always been satisfied, I just had an awful experience with my own booking and thought it warranted a warning.
I booked Penthouse Two, one of the larger rooms for a private sound recording. It cost approximately $ 70 for 1.5 hours. When we arrived to make the recording, we found out that one of the low strings on the piano was broken, causing a distracting rattling every time the note was touched and also when the damper pedal was raised and lowered.
First, I went to the desk and asked if we could switch pianos with another room. The assistant was extremely dismissive and her supervisor downstairs said no. As I was running out of time, we finished the recording, which suffered badly from the noise. After our session, I went down to the supervisors office to request a partial refund. I asked politely, explaining to him that I could not do the work I had come to do due to this problem. He was also rude, refusing to make eye contact or apologize for the state of the piano. In the end, he offered me a $ 15 credit on a future booking, which I took, but I will have to be absolutely desperate to ever book at this space again.

I’ve been to Shelter 3 or 4 times for rehearsals, it’s pretty good. The staff are very professional and helpful compared to other places I’ve booked. Seems like they book a lot of auditions so there are a lot of people hanging around in the halls, though nothing too uncomfortable. Rates are slightly higher than other places I think but only so much that we use it as a backup for when the cheaper/​more bare bones places are booked.

The space itself is not bad. (I wouldn’t use the bathrooms!!) Pretty much your run of the mill rehearsal/​performance/​audition space in midtown. Prices are also fair.

I love working with Shetler Studios.
It’s a great space to have classes, go to auditions and hold performances and rehearsals. I’ve done all of the above and I must say it is one of the best places in the city for it all. It really makes Nola look unbelievably worse than it already is.
Book space with Shetler and check out their website for possible discounts before you call!

Great space to rehearse — great rates and clean rooms. Staff isn’t overly friendly, but their not horrible either. Leave time to get up to their floor though — elevators on not super quick and half the time one is out-​of-​order.

Not my favorite place to audition, but it is cleaner than some of the other places. Lots of natural light.
If you’re doing a dance audition here, PLEASE do it barefoot. I nearly killed myself in my la ducas on their floors. I ended up taking them off for jazz flats and I was still dancing on a slippery floor… should have stuck with no shoes.

Nothing like a first-​to-​review to get you back in the swing of things! Shetler is like the hidden penthouse at Nola. They’re basically in the same building, but there’s a different entrance, and after a bit of wandering you find yourself in a little oasis of rehearsal and audition studios. The rooms are small for the most part — better for auditions than rehearsals. The larger ones are «upstairs» in Penthouse Studios.
They’re nice and well-​maintained, certainly a step up from Nola with plenty of hall benches to sit on while you’re waiting. Prices are standard for renting and whatnot, but I’m definitely a fan.