Baylor Theatre
The Baylor University Department of Theatre Arts is an elite program combining an excellent liberal arts education with rigorous training in both academic and artistic fields of theatre study. The department has been named among the top undergraduate theatre programs in the United States and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre.
News
Baylor’s New Play Initiative supports the creativity of American playwrights.
For the first time, Baylor’s theatre department shone a spotlight on up-and-coming playwrights and actors this past weekend through its first bi-annual New Play Initiative, a program dedicated to showcasing and providing feedback to rising playwrights.
Jack Angelo Cummings, a New Jersey/New York City-based playwright, won the $15,000 Kirk New Play Prize for his play “& Sons” at the inaugural Baylor New Play Initiative Festival.
Casts have been announced and ticket packages are on sale for the inaugural Baylor New Play Festival Sept. 26-28, culminating with the awarding of the $15,000 Kirk New Play Prize.
2026-27 Season
June 12 - 14
While under house arrest during the Bolshevik revolution, the last Grand Duchesses of the Russian empire—Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia Romanov—struggle to make sense of their downfall from royalty.
June 26 - 28
At the pavilion in Pine City, MN, Kari and Peter, high-school sweethearts, reunite at their twenty-year high-school reunion for the first time since Peter left Kari, following an unexpected pregnancy.
September 29 - October 4
This bold, fast-paced adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they struggle to survive a world in which gossip is currency and reputation is valued over everything.
October 20 - 25
Sara, a poet haunted by the death of her lover, David, investigates his murder as she relives their fast-paced romance in flashbacks.
November 10 - 15
Love is messy, and that’s been true since the times of ancient Greece. In Charles Mee’s timeless adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants, fifty sisters flee to a foreign land to escape forced marriages to their fifty cousins.
February 23 - 28
Often called the greatest American play, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town explores the lives of the residents of the fictional Grover’s Corners, NH.
April 7 - 11
Join us for this madcap romp through 37 plays in less than 2 hours. 3 actors play all the roles and give us the ‘Important bits’ of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.
April 21 - 25 and April 28 - May 2
Tina Fey’s hit film, Mean Girls, comes to life in this hilarious, high-energy musical about the perils of popularity and the power of staying true to yourself.
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We're All About Community
The Mission of the Department of Theatre Arts is to nurture a close-knit community of intellectually-curious and artistically-daring theatre practitioners while preparing students for future success through liberal arts education and professional training.
Undergraduate students in the department of Theatre Arts are part of a close-knit community, deeply embedded in the rigorous artistic work of Baylor Theatre from the first day of classes until graduation. From the first week, students are assigned to technical production crews and begin preparing auditions for weekly workshop performances. New students are assigned to a Big, an experienced student who introduces them to the department and acts as a mentor.