Overview

The Department of Theater and Dance provides Carleton students with opportunities to study. perform and work in practical theater. In the faculty-directed Players shows, students produce large-scale productions on the stage of the Arena Theater from genres pre-selected by a student committee. The department faculty works with officers on the student-elected Players board to coordinate this production every trimester. Many students also work outside of the officially organized productions with the Experimental Theater Board, Student Musical Theater, and other CSA-sponsored organizations, resulting in an often overwhelming number of theater opportunities every term.

Studies in theater arts at Carleton cover three main areas of theater: design and technical, acting and directing, and literature and criticism. Many of these courses are cross-listed with other departments. Click here for information about majoring in theater at Carleton.

Facilities

Two active theaters are located on Carleton's campus, including the 450-seat Arena Theater, which can be adjusted to a modified thrust stage or used for theater-in-the-round productions, and the 96-seat Nourse Little Theater, an experimental theater with traditional seating.