Performing Arts

Prepare For Broadway

Do you live for the adrenaline rush of minutes before the curtain comes up on opening night? Hone your craft to pursue a career as a professional actor or combine your creative curiosity with the many skills you learn from being a part of a production to pursue a variety of careers in the arts, business, education, or publishing.

Take Center Stage

Our B.A. in theater arts will prepare you to earn the lead role, become a playwright, serve as director or to be an integral part of the crew needed to put on a successful production.

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Engage Your Love of Music

Our Music program offers a B.A. option that prepares you for the stage or to be a scholar of your favorite genre of music.

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Take Center Stage

Michael Kennedy ’19

Theater Arts Major Feeds Off Audience Reaction

Amanda Cohen ’19

Actress Feels Most Confident on Stage

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Resources and Facilities

Bucknall Theater
Music Studios

Clubs and Organizations

5678 Dance Team
Charger Pep Band
Dance Team
Elite Step Team
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Incendio Dance Project
Kinetic Tap Team
Liturgical Praise Dance Team and Mime
Miss Majorettes
Monsoon Dance Crew
Music With a Mission
Pineapple Johnny’s Improv Club
Theater Club

Bands

Chargers Marching Band
Concert Band
African Drumming
Jazz Band
Brazilian Samba Drumming

Living Learning Communities

Music Living Learning Community

Study Away

Nashville Program

Theater Productions

What's Happening

University of New Haven Theater Program to Reprise Real-Life Tragedy "Elephant's Graveyard"

Based on a true story, "Elephant's Graveyard" explores the themes of justice, morality, and fear – as well as hope. The curtain comes up March 4 to 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Bucknall Theater in Dodds Hall.

University of New Haven Theater Program to Present ‘The Wolves'

A former Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, "The Wolves" follows the teenage members of a high school girls soccer team as they explore important questions together. The curtain comes up Wednesday through Saturday, November 13 to 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Bucknall Theater in Dodds Hall.

New Theater Lecturer Excited About Opportunities for Leadership, Collaboration

A former theater consultant with a passion for music and art, Milan Anich is the technical director for the University of New Haven's Division of Performing Arts.

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