"The Emmy nominations show that Hollywood has not addressed its diversity problem", writes the associate professor of theater . "The problem is perpetuated not only by the entertainment industry but also by institutions of higher education," she says....
News and Events
July 26, 2019
The Department of Theater is delighted to welcome Dr. Shamell Bell this fall. She will be teaching THEA 1: Introduction to Theater and THEA 21/ WGSS 59.04: Race, Gender, and Performance.
July 15, 2019
Award-winning, student-written one-act plays will be performed as both staged readings and complete productions over the course of the July 26-28 weekend during the annual summer Frost & Dodd Student Play Festival. In the Bentley Theater....
July 11, 2019
The New York Theatre Workshop will be in residence at Dartmouth July 29-August 17, developing and performing six new new works-in-progress by some of today’s most innovative professional playwrights and directors....
July 10, 2019
It’s Beautiful, Over There will be performed at the acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019. An original work about death, grief, and the kind of loss that changes our lives, Stephanie's piece was first created and performed as a 2015 honors thesis project at Dartmouth....
June 26, 2019
The performances of VoxFest 2019 will take place July 6 & 7 in the Bentley Theater. The annual alumni-driven summer festival of innovative, experimental, and daring new works-in-progress returns for the 7th consecutive year. All performances free to the public....
June 25, 2019
Students in Professor Ndounou’s spring course, THEA 10.55/AAAS 32.15 Curating a National Black Theater Museum, curated an exhibit displayed at the Rauner Library from June 7—Sept. 6, 2019....
June 13, 2019
Auditions for the 2019 Frost and Dodd Student Play Festival will take place Friday and Saturday, June 21-22 from 7:00-10:00 pm in the Bentley Theater.
June 07, 2019
John Heginbotham, Dept. of Theater lecturer and coreographer of the 2019 Tony award winner Oklahoma! in Broadway, was featured in the New York Times.
May 24, 2019
An original solo work written and performed by Brooke Goldner '19, Suspended follows a young woman forced to examine her past in order to carve out her path forward. Performing May 24-25, in the Bentley Theater....