Theatre and Dance

Academic Programs

The Theatre Program offers two undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Fine Arts. The BFA can be in either the design/technical area or in acting and candidates apply at the end of the sophomore year. No audition is required for admission into the B.A. program.

Both programs offer opportunities to develop skills in acting, costume design, directing, lighting design, management, scene design, technical production, theatre history, theory, and criticism.

Students are also offered a minor in Theatre.

Advanced theatre students at Tulane may earn the Master of Fine Arts in Design or Technical Production. Students are accepted into this three-year Graduate Program every other year.

 

Production

In an average academic year, Tulane University Theatre produces three to four mainstage productions directed by faculty or professional guest artists. With a commitment to select its seasons from all eras of theatre history, the faculty have recently presented productions of modern plays such as The Fifth of July, Hallowed Ground, The Death of Zukasky, Anton in Show Business, and Privates Eyes; and masterpieces and classics such as The Rivals, Enemy of the People, Comedy of Errors and The Hostage. The department's productions take place in the Albert Lupin Experimental Theater, a fully equipped flexible "black-box" theater, with large-scaled works produced at times in Tulane's Dixon Hall, a 1,000-seat proscenium theater.

From late May through mid-August, the program hosts the repertory season of The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, an Actor's Equity Company, with an intern program offering college students from around the country the opportunity to work and perform with seasoned professional actors, directors, and designers. The campus also hosts the Music Department's Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre in Dixon Hall, where large-scale popular musicals take place from June to August. The Patchwork Players Children's Theatre, housed in the university's Rogers Memorial Chapel, presents lively entertainment to New Orleans youngsters.

After Tulane

Tulane alumni enjoy careers in New York theater, regional theater, network television, feature films, and college and university theatres across the country. Some work for talent agencies, art councils, recreation programs, or creative dramatic programs. Others choose careers in related fields such as teaching, public relations, advertising, tourism, merchandising and fashion, or even in other professional areas such as law, business, medicine, or computer science.

 

 

FESTIVALS & AFFILIATIONS

• Shakespeare Festival at Tulane
• New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival
• Patchwork Players

The 2011-2011 season for the Department of Theatre and Dance

For more information about shows, ticket information, and contact information, please visit our Box Office page.

Assemblywomen by Aristophanes

In this Greek comedy, the women of Athens gain control of the city, instituting a totalitarian-esque government.  Among their government changes, each Athenian is fed, housed, and taken care of-- and every man may sleep with every woman.
October 18-22 at 8:00 pm, October 23 at 2:00 pm in the Lupin Theater.
Directed by Antony Sandoval

Above the Oaks by the Newcomb Dance Company

The Newcomb Dance Company presents their fall dance concert in the intimate and flexible performance space of McWilliams' Room 300.  Above the Oaks features original choreography by the Newcomb Dance Faculty.
November 1-5 at 8:00 pm, November 6 at 2:00pm in McWilliams Room 300.
Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director

The Skriker by Caryl Churchill

Combining theater and dance, The Skriker weaves the story of an ancient fairy who transforms into objects and people as it befriends, manipulates, seduces, and entraps two teenage mothers, Lily and Josie.
November 29- December 3 at 8:00 pm, December 4 at 2:00 pm in the Lupin Theater.
Directed by Rebecca Frank, MFA candidate.

Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

This early comedy by William Shakespeare explores the conflict between loyalty to friends and the foolish pursuit of young people in love.
February 28-March 3 at 8 pm, March 4 at 2 pm in the Lupin Theater. 

This is a co-production with The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane.

An Evening of Dance by the Newcomb Dance Company

The Newcomb Dance Program Faculty, along with guest choreographers, will present new ballet and modern dance choreography featuring the Newcomb Dance Company.
March 30-31 at 8 pm, April 1 at 2:00 pm in Dixon Auditorium.
Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director