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Welcome!

If you dream of exploring theatre or film, the Dalhousie Theatre Department offers these opportunities:

  • Acting
  • Costume Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Music and Theatre
  • Technical Scenography
  • Theatre Studies
  • Electives for non-majors


Whether your passion is for acting, directing, playwriting, analyzing theatre or film, costume design or construction, scenic design or carpentry, lighting sound, props or stage management, the Theatre Department can give you what you need to get you started in your chosen career.  Students from different streams of study collaborate with each other and with nationally and internationally renowned directors and designers to present four DalTheatre Productions a year.

Interested in joining this community? Contact us! We'd be happy to answer your questions.

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DalTheatre Productions

Nov 24, 2011 DalTheatre production full of Spanish passion: a review of Blood Wedding by Andrea Nemetz, The Chronicle-Herald.

Nov 24, 2011 Beautiful Blood Wedding: a review by Kate Watson, The Coast.

Nov 24, 2011 DalTheatre promises a bloody good time: interviews with the assistant directors of Blood Wedding, and fourth-year actor Sarah Vanesse, by Rebecca Scheidereit, DalNews.

Oct 19, 2011 DalTheatre season starts strong: a review of While We're Young by Rebecca Schneidereit, DalNews.

Oct 11, 2011 Students act their age: interviews with While We're Young actors, and director Margot Dionne, by Andrea Nemetz, TheChronicle-Herald

Oct 6, 2011 DalTheatre's season starter While We're Young, by Allison Saunders, The Coast.

Sep 22, 2011 DalTheatre explores the affairs of the heart, by Rebecca Schneidereit, DalNews.

Sep 19, 2011 DalTheatre tackles themes of love, youth: an inside look at our 2011-12 season with Chair Dr. Roberta Barker.



Department of Theatre

Nov 22. 2011 Congrats to Department of Theatre Award-winners Kristen Slaney, Heather Orr, Patrick Blenkarn, Kathryn Bridgland, Robin Hebb, Cathleen MacCormack, Ellen Denny, Stephanie Revoy, Lauren Walsh-Greene, and Karen Bennett.

Nov 3, 2011 DalTheatre (Acting) graduates Susan Leblanc-Crawford, Ben Stone, and Stewart Legere are voted Best Theatre Actors (Female and Male) in The Coast's Best of Halifax 2011.

Oct 20, 2011 Dalhousie Arts Centre celebrates its ruby anniversary. By Katelynn Northam and Amanda Pelham, DalNews.

Sep 30, 2011 Want to meet the best student costumers in North America? They're here at Dal: a profile by Rose Behar, Dalhousie Gazette.

Sep 14, 2011 Theatre reunion puts spotlight on Arts Centre's 40th anniversary. By Krista Armstrong, DalNews.

Mar 18, 2011 Wing Planned for the Arts Centre: concert hall, costume studies studio, student lounge among spaces announced by Michelle Hampson, DalNews.



DalTheatre Productions

The 2011/12 DalTheatre season:

While We're Young
by Don Hannah
Directed by Margot Dionne
October 12 to 15

Blood Wedding 
by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Jure Gantar
November 22 to 26 

La Ronde
by Arthur Schnitzler
Directed by Richie Wilcox
February 8 to 11
 La Ronde

Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Marti Maraden*
March 27 to 31

*Marti Maraden appears with the permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association

 DalTheatre Productions


Department of Theatre

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Employment Opportunities

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