Gropius and Breuer were invited to participate in the competition for the Fine Arts Center at the College of William and Mary shortly after the conclusion of the competition for Wheaton College. The Museum of Modern Art and the American National Theater and Academy sponsored the competition and aimed to revive theater in the United States by building festival theaters across the country. Williamsburg was chosen as the site for the first of these theaters because of the strong drama program at the college and the fact that the town was the site of the first theater ever built in the United States. Gropius and Breuer reworked some of the elements of their Wheaton College scheme. This time a tripartite theater dominated the composition and was linked by an elevated bridge to the bent rectangle of the fine arts center, containing drafting rooms, studios and lecture rooms, and to the library. The trapezoidal body of the theater, familiar from Breuer's entry for the Ukrainian State Theater competition, was wedged between rectangles housing an entrance lobby with exhibition space on one end and the stage machinery and administrative offices on the other.