Drama/Theatre
Faculty | Photo Album | Scholarships | Upcoming Events
About Us | State Play Festival | Syllabi
The Theatre Department typically produces four to five plays each season, giving students the opportunity to perform in many different venues. A highlight each year is the week-long TCCSTA (Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association) State Play Festival. In the past, the department has been awarded acting and technical honors for its festival entries. The theatre department produces a variety of genres. In the past, classics such as Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage have been mounted. Melodramas, reader's theatre shows, playwriting and directing workshops, and original works written by Dr. O'Neal have rounded out other seasons. The Theatre Department performs in two different spaces: the Black Box Theatre is a studio space which seats 100 and can be configured into any of the five theatre seating configurations (proscenium, alley, thrust, arena, and environmental), and Dawson Auditorium is a proscenium theatre, which seats 400. These diverse performance arenas give the theatre student valuable acting and technical theatre experience.
To request more information click here to send an e-mail message to the theatre department.