Dartmouth College Department of Theater

Welcome to the Department of Theater!

Offering a B.A. in Theater

• Dedicated exclusively to undergraduates
• No competition with graduate students for roles, etc.
• First Year students (freshmen) may get cast in mainstage productions
• Summer internships with the New York Theatre Workshop in residence at Dartmouth
• Educational partners with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• Outstanding Faculty with both professional and academic experience

Spring Highlights

• Read a great review of "The African Company Presents Richard III" production in The Dartmouth. 

• THIS Friday, May 25th, the opening of the Theater Department's Senior Theater Major show-Russian Romance by Murphy Guyer. Russian Romance is a comedy of mistaken identities taking place in the year after the fall of the Soviet Union. Ivan Verminitsky has recently received acclaim for the publication of his book The Red Ladder. On a book tour in America, Ivan meets (and drinks copious amounts of vodka with) Russian Literature professor Brad Bradley. When Ivan refuses to go with his wife to schmooze with his rich relatives in Saratoga Springs, the beautiful, crude, and wily Svetlana coerces Brad Bradley to pose as her husband and come with her to extort his rich family into getting them green cards. Hilarity ensues as these two enter into the privileged and dysfunctional world of these New York socialites which has also been invaded by the mysterious Michael who knows some dark secrets from Ivan's past. A romantic idealization of beautiful Russian suffering, clashes with the reality of the tumultuous finals years of the USSR police state in this "intellectual's farce." Tickets on sale at the HOP Box Office 603-646-2422.

• WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE EMAIL CONCERNING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SCENE SHOP? Click here to be added to the Shop email list. 
• The VOICES offering for spring term is a production of The African Company Presents Richard III, by Carlyle Brown, directed by visiting professor Baron Kelly. Please visit the VOICES web page for more information.
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READ ABOUT OUR NEW PROGRAM "YOUR SPACE" AS FEATURED IN THE DARTMOUTH. Here are the guidelines and here is an on-line application.

Videos of Department Activities

• Take a video tour of our winter 2011 production: The Making of Eurydice
• Watch two student video projects created in the Theater 10 course Unveiling the Harem Dancer, winter 2011, with Lecturer Maral Yessayan. This course will be offered again in winter 2012: A Day in the Life of Middle Eastern Woman, and Where Does Aladdin Take Place?

Directions to the Theater Department

Enter Hopkins Center Lobby. Head towards the Moore Theater and follow to the left. Look for a glass door with white lettering announcing "Shakespeare Alley". Go through the glass door. Professors' offices, the Green Room, and the Theater Department offices are located in this hallway.