Rarig Center, Brutalist theater building in Minneapolis, United States

Rarig Center is a brutalist building by Ralph Rapson and Associates, completed in 1971 on the University of Minnesota's West Bank campus. Its exterior shows the offices, radio and television studios, and theaters inside. It holds four theaters: the 460-seat Stoll Thrust, the 420-seat Whiting Proscenium, the 200-seat Kilburn Arena, and the Nolte Xperimental black box, seating up to 99.

Ralph Rapson and Associates designed the Rarig Center, built in 1971 to house theaters and television studios. It was named for University of Minnesota speech professor Frank Rarig and dedicated on June 1, 1973. Rapson drew on Le Corbusier's New Brutalism, and the building is the oldest of the five structures forming the University's West Bank Arts Quarter.

The building hosts two troupes, the University Theatre and the Xperimental Theater, and productions in the Nolte Xperimental Theatre are staged only by undergraduates. Radio K (KUOM), the university's radio station, has its studios inside the center. The name honors Frank Rarig, a University of Minnesota speech professor.

The Rarig Center stands due west of Ferguson Hall, across 4th Street South from the Regis Center for Art and southeast of Wilson Library. The four theaters are stacked inside the concrete block, with the Stoll Thrust and Whiting Pro on the larger levels and the Kilburn Arena and Nolte X below the 99-seat black box scale. Radio K studios and the design, costume, scenery and lighting shops share the building with classrooms.

The Stoll Thrust Theatre's steeply overhanging balcony is nicknamed the "Alpine Slope". The 460-seat hall was built as a quarter-scale replica of the original Guthrie Theater, which Ralph Rapson also designed.