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McCain Auditorium, located at Kansas State University, is the cultural center for performance arts and a host for numerous campus entertainment activities. A variety of performance events and theater productions are held each season and all events are open to the student population and the general public.

McCain has a total seating capacity of 1,751. This includes 45 movable seats that can be placed on the fore stage lift. The seating of McCain is broken into two different sections. These are the orchestra pit and the balcony.

The orchestra level contains 927 fixed seats (with seats on lift, 972) in continuous rows which is known as continental seating. Additionally there is a place for eight wheel chairs within the orchestra area.

The balcony has 809 seats arranged in more traditional fashion with aisles. The distance from the stage to the most distant seat in the balcony is measured at 105' and the orchestra level is 75' from the stage to the last seat.

The fore stage lift, located within the orchestra level, is 12' by 50', and it may be used for an additional 45 seats (upholstered seats like those in the rest of the auditorium slide onto the lift by means of tracks). The lift may be raised to the stage level to extend the stage into the orchestra level seating area (thrust stage), or it may be used as a "freight elevator" for items stored in the basement, or to move wardrobe crates to lower level dressing rooms.

At stage level there are two star dressing rooms stage right and, to one side, a sizable scene shop acoustically isolated from the stage. On the lower level are the green room, four more dressing rooms, a costume shop and similar adjunct facilities.

George C. Izenour of New Haven, Connecticut, was the stage consultant.
The acoustical consultants for the project were Bolt, Beranek and Newman of Cambridge, Massachusetts.