• Course Sequence and Descriptions
• Program Application

The Princeton Review ranked Nazareth College as having the tenth best college theatre programming in the country among 373 Best Colleges in its 2010 issue. This environment inspires our high-caliber theatre arts program which includes:

• individual attention and mentoring and our commitment to professionalism in performance.
• a state-of-the-art performing Arts Center with highly regarded dance programming.
• a wealth of opportunities to participate in a wide variety of performances in music theatre, and drama.
• a liberal arts core that makes for better, more well-rounded artists and gives them the flexibility to pursue graduate school or other fields.

The program hones students' talents and prepares them for a life in the arts. Every day in classrooms, rehearsal halls, and studio settings, our theatre students are trained to reach inside themselves and use their talents to move audiences.

Program Highlights

• Comprehensive training in the art, tools and skills required to create theatre of the highest caliber in both the performance and production fields.
• Courses in Acting, Technical Theatre, Music Theatre, and Scene, Costume, and Lighting Design.
• Supports training for teacher certification at the elementary and high school levels with a Theatre major, including inclusive childhood and adolescent education.
• Small program provides great opportunity. Students may be cast in shows as early as second semester freshman year.
• Guest artists from professional theatre regularly direct, design and teach in the program. Students participate in master classes with working professionals.
• Students regularly compete at the American Theatre Festival.
• Project course in the senior year is designed for concentrated work in special areas under faculty supervision.