Tanghalang Huseng Batute, also known as the CCP Experimental Theater, is designed for experimental productions and improvisational works; thus, has a variable seating capacity (max. of 240) depending on the size of the stage or acting area. It has two levels; the gallery or the upper level and the studio or the lower level.

The theater was named after the King of Balagtasan (poetic joust), Jose Corazon de Jesus’ pseudonym.