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 Welcome to the Department of Theatre & Dance at CU Boulder

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Department of Theatre & Dance is a community of students, scholars, artists and artisans who regard the collaborative and creative process as the core of education. We engage with that process at all levels of our work as we pursue excellence and understanding.

 

 

Theatre

The theatre program offers 8 degrees, a minor, and two certificate programs. There are approximately 200 theatre students in our house. 

We produce a robust season of plays each academic year, ranging from classical texts to new work, and the theatre division plays an active role in several community engagement programs. 

All theatre courses focus on building a strong foundation that blends theory and practice.​

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Dance

The dance program offers a Dance BA, a Dance Minor, and a Hip-hop studies Certificate. 

There are over 120 dance students in our house; collectively we produce several faculty, guest, and student-choreographed productions each semester.

The University of Colorado Boulder offers a well-established, nationally recognized dance program that encourages the pursuit of one’s artistic voice, embodied scholarship, and pedagogical exploration

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Fall 2026 General Theatre Auditions

The Department of Theatre and Dance will be holding in-person auditions for the Fall 2026 season on Friday, August 21st and Saturday, August 22nd in the Loft Theatre. Callbacks will be held on Sunday, August 23rd. Any CU student currently enrolled in the Fall 2026 semester is eligible to audition.

Fall 2026 Season Shows

Rumors and The 150 Project 

Click Here for Mainstage Audition Information

Is CU Boulder right for you?

From the root of process stems practice, and that practice bears the fruit of experience. The Department of Theatre & Dance guides that fruition, offering students an expanse of opportunities to encounter the art forms of theatre and dance, their making and meaning.​ We strongly value the ampersand in Theatre & Dance, and seek to make connections across communities. We aim to make change, make art, and to make a difference, together.

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Statement on Access and Community Engagement

Office of Collaboration Resources 

We stand with our students, faculty, and staff  as active agents against racism and all of the insidious ways that it has marred our disciplines, our campus, our department, our interpersonal relationships, and our own personal thinking and actioning.

We are eager to lend our voices and bodies to the transformative work that will bring about equal representation and change. Inspired by the power of what we have experienced, lived and learned, we thank the Black Lives Matter movement for galvanizing sharp focus on equitability. In our house, we are proud to say Black Lives Matter, and we are committed to dismantling structural inequities that have historically privileged specific ways of knowing and making over others. 

We welcome partnership, collaboration, and dialogue to transform the trajectories of our fields and celebrate Change, Growth, and “Radical Re-Imagining.” In the spirit of John Lewis’ “Good Trouble” we say: Yes please!

Like you, many of us love this work and have re-arranged our entire lives for it. It is important that we create learning and working environments that feel healthy and celebrate the many vantage points and voices within the human experience.