Theatre Department

Resources

Handbook for Theatre Majors

Click here to open the handbook.

Further Opportunities

Many Reed Theatre graduates choose to continue their training at the graduate level, focusing on a specific area of theatre practice (for example: playwriting, acting, directing, design). Reed Theatre graduates have been very successful in the highly competitive field of graduate admissions, pursuing advanced degree programs at leading universities including N.Y.U., Yale, Northwestern, University of Washington, California Institute of the Arts, and Carnegie-Mellon University. All areas of theatre practice have been pursued at the advanced degree level. Other students have chosen to pursue advanced degree work in other fields, including education and law.

Theatre Links

The web hosts a wide range of information resources for theatre folk, from union info to festival information, from amateur and college companies to Broadway and the West End, from designers to vendors to on-line plays, from newsgroups to magazines to....

Academic Resources and References:

Through the Reed Library:

  • Inter-Play: an on-line index to plays in
    collections, anthologies and periodicals

Scripts and Theatre History:

Playwriting:

  • Richard Toscan's Playwriting Seminars According to Mr. Toscan: The Playwriting Seminars is a 173-page companion on the art and craft of playwriting with an inevitable excursion into film. The site's gotten a lot of positive response from playwrights and professional playwriting organizations including New Dramatists in its first three weeks in cyberspace. And it's been called an exemplary use of html.

General Interest:

Portland Theatre on the Web

More Oregon Theatre on the Web

Oregon University Theatre

Theatre Elsewhere