Faculty of Arts & Science
Dramatic Arts

What do you love?

Do you like being center stage? Are you forever entertaining your friends and family? Do you enjoy creating fictional scenarios and alternative views of reality?

Act out your passion in Theatre & Dramatic Arts.

Learn more about our Drama Programs.

Future Theatre & Dramatic Arts Students

As a Drama student, you’ll study theory and criticism, performance and production. You’ll also participate in a series of major theatre productions annually, ensuring you get ample real-life theatre experience. You’ll also delve into theatre history and literature, studying renowned playwrights and their works within the context of time, place and social circumstance.

With both theoretical and practical opportunities, you will learn to be imaginative, flexible, adaptable and creative, grooming you for entrance into the entertainment industry, graduate studies or a variety of other professions.

The Play’s the Thing

The department has two performance series: Mainstage and TheatreXtra. With eight productions annually you’ll have numerous opportunities to put your new knowledge to the test, whether you are performing, building sets and designing costumes, or stage managing. During four years of study, you’ll see and work on a wide range of historical periods, genres and theatrical approaches.