Overview The Department of Theater at Brooklyn College is one of New York City's leading institutions in the training of actors, directors, set/costume/lighting designers, dramaturgs, performing arts managers, and theater technicians. The Department offers undergraduate degree programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts in Theater, the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design and Technical Production, the Master of Arts in History and Criticism, and the Master of Fine Arts with concentrations in Acting, Directing, Design and Technical Production, Dramaturgy, and Performing Arts Management.

Our comprehensive curriculum includes courses in acting, voice, movement, improvisation, acting for the camera, stage combat, directing, stagecraft, stage design, costume design, costume rendering, lighting design, stage management, theater design and planning, performing arts management, criticism, dramaturgy, dramatic theory, black theater, American musical theater, American theater, world theater history, and Asian theater.

Each year the Department of Theater puts on nine to ten productions, including a Mainstage Subscription Series in the 488-seat Gershwin Theater and studio productions in the New Workshop Theater, our 120-seat black box theater. The Sylvia Fine Kaye Chair in Musical Theater offers special lectures, seminars, and workshops with major theater personalities. Guest artists have included Betty Buckley, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Joel Grey, Celeste Holm, John Kander and Fred Ebb. The Kaye Chair also sponsors a course in the History of the Musical Theater. Our Theater Research Data Center publishes the highly regarded International Bibliography of Theatre. The department also is the home of Asian Theatre Journal, the most distinguished international academic journal specializing in Asian theatre. We provide a robust number of practicum/internship residencies that offer students unique opportunities to gain experience at some of the most prestigious theater organizations in New York City, such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Primary Stages, New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, the New York City Opera, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jujamcyn Theaters, Columbia Artists Theatricals, KL Productions, Roundabout Theater Company, Jean Cocteau Repertory Company, Don Buchwald Talent Associates, the Drama League, and many others. Brooklyn College Brooklyn College June Moon
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
 
In addition to our various academic programs, Brooklyn College is the home base of the International Bibliography of Theatre (IBT), a culminating database now known as the International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance (IBTD), and now offered online by EBSCO Publishing as part of its Academic Search Premier Service.
Through and arrangement with EBSCO, Brooklyn College will continue to be involved with IBTD by coordinating the international participation in the project which was founded in 1984 by Brooklyn College Theater Department Professor Emeritus Benito Ortolani.
The IBTD is the most comprehensive multicultural and multidisciplinary research tool available to theater and dance students, educators, and professionals, and is a recipient of an award from the American Society for Theatre Research.
 
 
 
 
 
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