Caltech – Beckman Auditorium

The Vienna Boys Choir will be at the Beckman in February 2015. When looking for tickets on line, there is an $ 8.00 processing fee, a $ 3.50 seat fee (?) and a mailing fee. I don’t know who sets the type and amount of these additional fees, but combined they seem way too much in addition to the ticket cost. A seat fee? — this sounds like the airlines. If the processing fee is for the credit card companies, it’s higher than I’ve ever paid. Or if that «processing fee» money goes toward production costs at the Beckman, I would rather see higher ticket prices than the add on costs.

Caltech is awesome. I came here for a wedding & wedding rehearsal and everything was just perfect. The waiters were nice and helpful, the parking was easy (valet is free), and the food surpassed my expectations. The caprese salad with tomatoes on the vine, burrata cheese and arugula was probably the best caprese salad I’ve ever tried. The jerk chicken was moist and juicy, with alot of flavor. There is just so much history at Caltech, it is an amazing place to visit and a great place to host an event!

Beckmann auditorium is a nice venue. No bad seats since it is fairly small. The staff should pay more attention to when the person on stage not only released permission to video and to photograph but highly encouraged it!
I watched one staff member tell a ticket holder no video taping, meanwhile he was the one not paying attention and didn’t want to listen to reason.
When that staff member passed by again I made sure he knew what he missed and at least he went and apologized to the nice ticket holder.
The show arc attack was fun for children and somewhat entertaining to adults. However, if your a music buff it really is not for you.
I would go see them again because it was entertaining to see what they could do with the tesla coils.

Beautiful medium sized auditorium … perfect for all kinds of performing arts. A very good view of the stage from all positions and angles. Conveniently located in the middle of the Caltech campus. Ample free parking possibilities on the campus grounds as parking is permitted after 5 pm.

This place is pretty neat considering the circular dome and the interior of this auditorium. It is very spacious and just plain beautiful. The grass is always lush and its always a great place to hang out or come for an event. The ceiling of this building is crazy cool with the flickering lights.
The vibe and scenery around this building gives off a good sense of happiness. Just being in open free space!

Man, when I walked in this place I thought I was going to Laurence Welk! Cal Tech is such a beautiful campus that it almost puts me to tears. This auditorium, albeit a little 70’s-sh, had great acoustic and the seats were comfortable. My friend and I saw Lunasa and the views was awesome (we actually saw people). I really like the size of this venue because it’s intimate and you can really feel the energy of the crowd when we are all so close together. I absolutely loved the ceiling! It had stars that twinkle and all I could think is that we need that kind of ceiling in the Story Time Room at my Library! So cool!

This was designed by the same person for Kennedy Center in Washing DC. From the good map it looks like a big circle auditorium surrounded by 4 small circular fountains. This is a very special shape for energy.
Inside, the ceiling is made of circular shape metal pieces like the bottom of Coca cans.
This is the place for commencements.

Stephen Hawking!
I was super excited to actually get a seat to see Dr. Hawking last night, as well as to actually attend an event inside this beautiful auditorium. I’ve visited the CalTech campus several times and always ended up hanging out with friends near this building because the lighting here is so picturesque. It’s a good place to sit and talk and absorb some of the intellectual energy that permeates the grounds. EIF? Electro Intellectual Field? In any case, this event was a big deal and the auditorium was full to capacity. In spite of this, things were well organized & flowed smoothly — entrance & exit — bathrooms, etc.
I will definately check out the Cal Tech calendar more often. They have music here too & in the round auditorium, I bet the accoustics are great.

I came here for the Stephen Hawking lecture. It’s a beautiful building to look at in the evening.
Inside the walls are white with golden clover shapes. Inside the auditorium, the ceiling is golden mesh and the lights flickered above the golden mesh pattern so it looked like stars flickering. Pretty neat.
I sat in the back row upstairs with friends and we had no problem hearing the audio and the view was pretty good.
It’s a nice on-​campus venue.

The building is circular which is pretty neat, the auditorium is pretty big. Saw the East Village Opera Company here. We sat downstairs and later moved upstairs because the view was better. Definitely recommend sitting upstairs because the sound was A LOT better upstairs for some reason.
Will call was a little disorganized because the guy couldn’t find our tickets at first, even though I told him that it was likely filed under the name of the company. There is a lot of construction going on in the area in front of the auditorium, so there was a lot of yellow tape and turned up dirt. So it was sort of sparse outside, plus the outside refreshment cart only carried the very bare basics like coffee.
This is one of several venues they have at Caltech. The campus is big, so there are several parking areas. Parking is free after 5 pm, no need to feed the meters in the parking structures. Three and a half stars, rounded down.