The Theater curriculum offers courses each year in acting, directing, history, criticism, design, and production. In addition to class meetings, many courses have a laboratory component that involves students in the process of creating a theater production. Each year, the program produces two or three mainstage productions, and co-sponsors a black theater production directed by a faculty member appointed jointly in Theater and Dance and the African American Studies Department. Workshop productions and student directing projects are also regularly scheduled. These smaller scale productions are intended to provide a bridge between the classroom experience and the fully-mounted campus productions.
The program also sponsors theater residencies from time to time. These residencies supplement the curriculum by giving students the opportunity to participate in workshops. In the past, these workshops have included work with specialists in stage combat, voice and movement, stage makeup, and film and video acting.
In addition to productions that are sponsored by the Theater and Dance Program, students have the opportunity to participate in productions sponsored by other departments and by campus student theater organizations.
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