The Department of Theatre at Texas A&M University-Commerce is located in the magnificent Performing Arts Center on the shores of beautiful Gee Lake and in the Journalism Building, a well equipped facility with a striking mosaic mural on its front edifice. The department houses a modern 304-seat playhouse, an experimental “black box theatre,” KETV television studios, student radio (KKOM), the newsroom for the print and online editions of The East Texan, the student newspaper, offices of the online magazine, and instructional journalism labs with state-of-the-art computers and software for classes of the Journalism Division.