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Students Thrive Through Virtual Performance

This academic year was an experience to remember and the students of Theatre and Dance came together to create something entirely new: the Virtual Festival.

Day of 100 Solos

This site-specific outdoor performance features over one hundred dance majors in five different locations throughout the Montclair State University campus.

Back to Life Lighting Installation

The light at the end of the tunnel… is a class project!

Working, A Musical, filmed on site at Montclair State

Coming Soon: Working (a Musical)!

An interdepartmental collaboration of Theatre, Dance, and Television Production, Working will premiere as part of the department’s Virtual Festival.

Grace Rivera plays a waitress in Working, an interdepartmental collaboration between students in Theatre and Dance and Television Production.

‘Working’ Together

Collaboration brings musical production to life despite challenges of the pandemic, joins other performances at online Virtual Festival

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This April: A Virtual Production of ‘TASHA

Montclair State University Department of Theatre and Dance Virtual Spring Season 2021; A way to continue the journey of learning virtually by performing and capturing during the COVID 19 Pandemic

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Artist Julian Boal Works with BA and MA Theatre Studies Students

BA and MA Theatre Studies students learn about connecting theatre and community with Julian Boal

Jordan Muhammad (left) of Columbia High School won the 2020 Foxy for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama.

The Red Carpet Online

12th Annual Theatre Night Awards bring University alumni together, shape theater programs across New Jersey

Musical Theatre Students Celebrate Broadway

The Musical Theatre program at Montclair was invited to participate in Broadway Celebration.

Emmanuèle Phoun performing “Bits and Pieces: Choreographic Donations."

Prestigious Dance Research Fellowships Awarded to Montclair State Professor and Student

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2019 awards celebrate 75th anniversary of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Norman Lear visits the cast of Cold Turkey

Entertainment Industry Giant Norman Lear Meets Cast of Cold Turkey

Lear visits Montclair State to enjoy a performance of Cold Turkey

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New BA Theatre Studies Course Helps Students Lose the Stage—and Gain New Perspective

The new course aims to provide unique performance insights