Dreamland Theater

Something about this place is one part magical old-timey performance space and the other half is grimy hole in the wall.  Pretty great combination if you ask me.

As others have mentioned, not the greatest sound for louder shows. But they do bring through lots of interesting little projects - mostly local - my favorite so far has been the burlesque show - or Forest's one-man-band "Skate Laws" - or "suicide by cop" (a punk band that perhaps takes itself a bit too seriously but is for the thrashing about and actually pretty good).

Unfortunately, finding out that these shows exist is a whole 'nother issue. Their website calendar usually just shows the puppet shows which is a great source of frustration for me. You'll have to either know people involved in the productions or search for DIY posters around Ypsi (The Ugly Mug usually is a good source for those things).

Pretty sure all the shows geared toward adults are BYOB (haven't seen a sign yet that says a certain show is requesting it not be). So grab a paper bag or a flask before you show up, if you want to imbibe.

It's definitely 'flex space' in that depending on the event, it's divided into church pews and seats with a floor seating up in front and sometimes it's all open with some seats on the periphery.

The basement is a place you can hang out if you want to get away from the crowd upstairs - but it's mostly a storage space. There's a couch near the bathroom which, despite the fact that... well, it's near the bathroom... seems to be a popular place for making-out and other transgressions. I guess people are turned on by different things. Like proximity to bathrooms. To each their own.

If I could find out about the shows more, I would go more. Until then it's nice to know it exists and the shows I have attended there were mucho enjoyable.

Not the greatest concert venu,
but it is a fun one if you don't care too much about audio quality.
I hear they do puppet shows on the weekends?
Havent seen one yet,
but that does sound cool.
Also, everything here seems to start later than advertised.

Couldn't wait to attend the Totally Awesome Fest...the bands started over an hour late at Dreamland...the sound system was horrible - we could not hear the lead singer during the first set at all.  There was some kid running around trying to fix it...he never did.  The band handled it very well.  I likely would have walked off the stage, but they were already getting started so late.  After waiting over an hour, we acutally left after the first band because the sound quality was just so awful that it was frustrating to listen to!

I love the idea of Dreamland and support it just for it's uniqueness...but I guess you get what you pay for??