
The Theatre Program
Muhlenberg's world-class studio training & rigorous academics will prepare you for a career in the theatre - or anywhere else.
Through world-class studio training and rigorous academics, the Theatre & Dance Department aims to produce flexible, collaborative, inspired artist-thinkers, well-equipped to contribute to the greater good.
The Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance experience offers a direct learning partnership among faculty and students—in the classroom, the studio and the performance laboratory. Students are nurtured to succeed and encouraged to take risks. The department offers students daily opportunities to foster the most important goal of the liberal arts experience: education of the whole person.
Theatre & Dance faculty and staff have developed a multi-faceted approach to education that combines exciting creative experience with rigorous professional standards. Students are challenged as artists in the studio and the classroom, working closely with distinguished faculty and internationally recognized guest artists to achieve a conceptual understanding and a practical working knowledge of the performing arts.
WHYY highlighted Gabriel Jason Dean’s play “Rift, or White Lies,” which tells the story of two brothers, one of whom is incarcerated. The actors playing the brothers switch roles each time the show is performed.
A new original work comes to Muhlenberg, inspired by Margaret Cavendish’s 1668 play ‘The Convent of Pleasure’
Claire’s Sullivan’s original play “Don’t Get Buried” makes its world premiere in a staged reading at Muhlenberg College
Jessica Swale’s feminist play “Blue Stockings” brings the history of the women’s rights movement to Muhlenberg Theatre and Dance