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  • Concentration Overview
    As a performing arts major with a concentration in theater, you will take performance, studio, history, and seminars. Playwrights, actors, and stagecraft artists: you will develop, cultivate, and hone the skills you need to succeed in performance, design, and instruction (teaching), and become a prime candidate for graduate programs. 

    In performance courses, you will be members and sometimes soloists in production and ensembles in front of live audiences. These courses emphasize collaborative skills and ensemble performance. In studio courses, you will study acting in-depth, exploring specified techniques such as the Stanislavski Method, Alexander, Meisner, Hagen, Adler, and Spolin Technique. You will explore improv, stage combat, pantomime, puppetry, and devising to become confident, well rounded, performance artists. Studio courses emphasize technique, repertoire, presentation, and ultimately, creative performance or design projects. History courses provide the context for all theater practice and enhance students’ ability to perform, write about, promote, question, or collaborate with artists working in any theatrical style. Finally, seminar courses give students the theoretical foundation for their craft. Portfolio building, workshops, master classes, script analysis, and more help the artist to find their voice and contribute with confidence to the arts world. 

    In addition, you will undertake three internships, including a semester-long, full-time professional experience relevant to performing arts and theater. You will complete a two-semester senior thesis on a topic relevant to theater, and containing interdisciplinary components. You will experience the integration of theory and practice through coursework, experiential learning, and independent field research and/or creative composition in the senior thesis sequence.
     
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  • Curriculum

    Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 125

    First Year - Credits: 30

    • Quantitative Reasoning聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 111聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 112聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 100聽-聽Introduction to Theater (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1 or 3)
    • DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DRA 200聽-聽Acting Techniques I (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 205聽-聽Acting Techniques II (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 220聽-聽Introduction to Theater Production (Cr: 3)
    • INT 100聽-聽Internship I (Cr: 2)
    • MUS 105聽-聽91黑料网 Chorus (Cr: 1)
    • PA 100聽-聽Introduction to Performing Arts (Cr: 3)
      Satisfies Aesthetic Awareness General Elective

    Second Year - Credits: 35

    • Global Issues聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • Individual and Society聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
    • Literary Perspectives聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
    • Science and Technology聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
    • Performing Arts Elecitve (Cr: 6)
    • Elective (Cr: 3)聽
    • DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1 or 3)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • INT 200聽-聽Internship II (Cr: 2)
    • PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • PA 300聽-聽Performance Workshop I (Cr: 3)
    • PA 305聽-聽Performance Workshop II (Cr: 3)

    Third Year - Credits: 29

    • General Education Electives (Cr: 9)
    • Values and Ethical Reasoning聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • World Cultures General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • ART 265聽-聽Arts Administration I (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1 or 3)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DRA 310聽-聽Directing (Cr: 3)
    • PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
    • PA 310聽-聽Audition and Portfolio (Cr: 3)

    Fourth Year - Credits: 31

    • General Education Elective (Cr: 3)
    • Performing Arts Elective (Cr: 6)
    • DAN 235聽-聽Mind and Body Awareness (Cr: 3)
    • MUS 105聽-聽91黑料网 Chorus (Cr: 1)
    • PA 480聽-聽Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
    • PA 489聽-聽Senior Research (Cr: 3)
    • PA 491聽-聽Senior Capstone (Cr: 3)

    Performing Arts Elective

    Students must take 12 credits under the designation of Performing Arts Elective.聽For this elective requirement, students may take up to nine credits in any courses in their designed concentration area (DRA). However, three credits must be in an area outside the student's concentration area in order to promote cross-discipline growth. Students may choose from any DAN, DRA, MUS, PA聽 or any of the following courses:

    • AET 100聽-聽Foundations of Creative Therapies (Cr: 3)
    • AET 200聽-聽Materials, Media, and Metaphor (Cr: 3)
    • AET 205聽-聽Music Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
    • AET 206聽-聽Guitar for Therapy and Education (Cr: 3)
    • AET 207聽-聽Drumming for Healing (Cr: 3)
    • AET 210聽-聽Therapeutic Writing (Cr: 3)
    • AET 215聽-聽Dance/Movement Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
    • AET 225聽-聽Jung and Art Therapy (Cr: 3)
    • AET 305聽-聽Cultural Humility in the Arts Therapies (Cr: 3)
    • AET 306聽-聽Drama Therapy and Psychodrama (Cr: 3)
    • ART 240聽-聽Imagination and Creativity (Cr: 3)
    • ART 266聽-聽Writing in the Arts Seminar (Cr: 3)
    • ART 365聽-聽Arts Administration II (Cr: 3)
    • DM 110聽-聽Introduction to Digital Filmmaking (Cr: 3)
    • DM 255聽-聽Writing for the Screen (Cr: 3)
    • DM 281聽-聽TV Studio Production I (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 215聽-聽Acting for Film (Cr: 3)
    • ED 215聽-聽Creative Arts in the Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 103聽-聽Public Speaking (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 212聽-聽Drama Survey (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 229聽-聽Playwriting and Screenwriting I (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 365聽-聽Shakespeare (Cr: 3)
    • IDS 301聽-聽Yoga: Theory, Culture & Practice (Cr: 3)
    • MTH 105聽-聽The Mathematics of Music (Cr: 3)

  • Internships and Careers

    An 91黑料网 education means you'll graduate with a degree and a resume.

    Whether you pursue graduate school or embark on your career right away after graduation, we believe that your time at 91黑料网 will prepare you for the next step.

    Internships: 

    Students are required to complete three internships within their major and/or minor. Internship sites have included: 

    • New York Film Academy 

    • North Shore Music Theatre 

    • Stage 284 at The Community House 

    • Firehouse Center for the Arts 

    • Boston Ballet 

    • Ovation Theatre 

    • The Artful Life Counseling Center & Studio

    • Walt Disney World College Program 

    • Center for Creative YOuth 


    Jobs: 
    Many of our graduates have become or worked for: 

    • Theatre Workshop of Nantucket 

    • Stage 284 at The Community House 

    • North Shore Music Theatre 

    • Theater Teacher 

    • Lisa Pilato Dance Center 

    • Freelance Artist 

    • Actor 

    • Arts Administrator 

    • Walt Disney World 

    • Norwegian Cruise Lines  

     

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Mainstage Performances

Comedy Showcase 2
Melancholy play
Comedy Showcase Production
Comedy Showcase 2
Melancholy play
Comedy Showcase Production
Shrek 2
Shrek! the musical
Shrek 2
Shrek! the musical
two actors sitting on same chair together
The importance of being earnest
two actors sitting on same chair together
The importance of being earnest
The play that went wrong
the play that goes wrong
Comedy Showcase Production
The play that went wrong
the play that goes wrong
Comedy Showcase Production
two actors embraced on the stage floor during a performance
Mainstage Play: The Clean House
Mainstage Play: The Clean House
two actors embraced on the stage floor during a performance
Mainstage Play: The Clean House
Mainstage Play: The Clean House
Actor holding up red cloth prop during play
The Clean House
Actor holding up red cloth prop during play
The Clean House
Two actors crouched dressed up in costumes during play one as dog one as male dog owner
Into the Woods
Two actors crouched dressed up in costumes during play one as dog one as male dog owner
Into the Woods
Actor posed before song in red riding hood outfit
Into the Woods to Student Performance
Actor posed before song in red riding hood outfit
Into the Woods to Student Performance
group of actors as pirates carrying one actress across stage
Pirates of Penzance
group of actors as pirates carrying one actress across stage
Pirates of Penzance
Actor dressed and posed for in Midsummer Nights Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Actor dressed and posed for in Midsummer Nights Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
actor lays on floor in costume with beanie hat with nasa button on top
Waiting for Godot
actor lays on floor in costume with beanie hat with nasa button on top
Waiting for Godot
cast of play stands at attention for applause at end of show
West Side Story
cast of play stands at attention for applause at end of show
West Side Story
main cast of wizard of oz play characters stand facing the back of the stage with arms linked
Wizard of Oz
main cast of wizard of oz play characters stand facing the back of the stage with arms linked
Wizard of Oz
actors dance and sing in dark setting of stage
Wizard of Oz Production
actors dance and sing in dark setting of stage
Wizard of Oz Production