Theatre College Guide - Best Musical Theatre Colleges

Angels in America is a landmark play.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

 Hoff-Barthelson Music School has announced the return of its highly anticipated Music of Our Time Contemporary Music Festival, showcasing an eclectic array of musical works composed from 1923 through the present day.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

The Yale Artists Cabaret: an undergraduate organization will host an exclusive senior showcase featuring 9 students from the Yale University graduating class of 2024 - the first ever showcase of its kind for undergraduate students in Yale College.

Arkansas State University Beebe theater department has blossomed so much under the tutelage of Director Ryan Gibbons that they now offer multiple opportunities for their students to work on and off the stage. In March the ASU Beebe Theatre presented BLACK BOX NIGHT, where students were able to gain experience performing in a more intimate setting, and then in April, the students adapted Lewis Carroll’s iconic ALICE novels into a script molding in their own vision. Though vastly different, both shows allowed the students to prove that they were worthy of competing with the larger programs in Arkansas. 

A weekend of “Tradition” in the Harton Theatre at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, began on Friday April 19 and ran through Sunday April 21 with Fiddler on The Roof.  I was so excited when Theresa asked me to review this show because it’s a favorite of mine. 

Tyson Bennett is out as his position of Superintendent following a transgender student being denied a role in the school production of Oklahoma!.

Wagner College Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season of storytelling! Check out the lineup here!

Discover the exciting collaboration between BLACK ENSEMBLE and NEIU, bringing innovative theatrical experiences to the Chicago stage. Stay tuned for more details.

Premiere Stages at Kean University reveals the semi-finalists for the 2024 Play Festival. Discover the up-and-coming playwrights in the spotlight this year.

This production is full of physical comedy and solid acting. In addition to singing beautifully, this cast has embraced the theatricality of the art form, and the result is a heck of a lot of fun.

The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television will present the 19th edition of I DREAM IN WIDESCREEN. Learn more about the event!

Registration is open for the 2024 summer semester at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Ringling College, which offers noncredit educational opportunities for adults to pursue new interests, expand intellectual horizons, and enrich their lives.

The College of Magic's new show, UNBELIEVABLE, comes to Artscape for four shows only on 8 and 9 June. 

Experience a Spring double-bill by Wagner College Opera featuring Moore's comedic 'Gallantry' and Puccini's tragic 'Suor Angelica'.

In April 2024, Bonnie Comley, Founder of BroadwayHD and prominent in the arts and entrepreneurship, delivered an inspiring and insightful masterclass at Emerson’s Judee Theater.

Rising Stars Performing Arts specializes in nurturing top-tier talent with our quadruple threat method: singing, acting, dance, and musicianship. Our nonprofit school offers year-round classes, workshops, and a college-bound program that's placed students in leading BFA MT programs nationwide.

Playwright Will Arbery is an American playwright, screenwriter and TV writer, known for his plays Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Plano, and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and will be presented in Wagner College Theatre's Stage One venue next May as part of the 2024-25 season.

Broadway producer Daryl Roth and husband Steven Roth have donated $25 million to Dartmouth College to support its reimagined Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Darlington College is the first north east business to sign up to Darlington Hippodrome’s new 10 for 10 campaign.

In a move that underscores the growing global interconnectedness of higher education and the arts, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), based in Boca Raton, Florida, and the Conservatorio Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia, Italy, have officially joined in a partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that promises to enhance the cultural and academic exchange between the United States and Italy.

Experience innovative choreography at the University of Texas at Arlington's Dance in Flux. Learn more about the event and see how to purchase tickets.

BIG FISH is a Broadway Musical  adapted from Tim Burton’s 2003 film of the same title, and is the story of a man named Edward Bloom who aspired to do “great things” and be the hero of his own life story. He tries to relate that sense of adventure and aspiration in his son and all the people around him by telling tall tales.

UMS has announced its 146th presenting season featuring the return of some favorite performers as well as a dazzling array of artists and events completely new to UMS audiences.