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Perform your way to a degree
Complete this important step in your theatrical career and leave with a musical theatre degree and lots of experience.
Majoring in Musical Theatre
Our Musical Theatre program offers training in the creative processes, history and theory of theatre as well as arts management and stagecraft. If you’re interested in acting, dancing and singing, and are committed to a professional career in the performing arts — this program is for you!
All theatre students do an intensive internship and work alongside local, regional and international companies. Students have interned at local theaters (Proctors, Capital Repertory Theatre, Berkshire theaters, etc.), educational institutions and media outlets.
Russell Sage College also offers a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre for students interested in using the arts to bring stories to life.
Theatre Institute at Sage
The Theatre Institute at Sage provide quality live theatre and arts-in-education programming for residents of Albany and Troy, New York.
As part of the Theatre Institute, our Musical Theatre program provides hands-on, multifaceted learning experiences enhanced by long runs (usually two weeks) of theatrical productions. This allows students to be constantly active as performers, technicians, teachers and administrators — and to develop not just in rehearsal, but over a longer performance schedule.
Musical Theatre Major Spotlights
Careers with a Musical Theatre Degree
Recent graduates of Sage’s Musical Theatre program are working as actors, as a costume designer on Broadway, a labor attorney (inspired by experiences as a member of the Actors’ Equity Association) and in arts administration.
Alumni Spotlights
A Musical Theatre degree prepared these Sage graduates for success.
Graduate Studies with a Musical Theatre Degree
A Master of Fine Arts degree is the next step for many Musical Theatre majors who want to continue their education. This program is also excellent preparation for graduate degrees in other fields that align with your goals.
Recent graduates have been accepted to the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and to Penn State Law School.
Musical Theatre Program Faculty
Edith McCrae Professor of Fine Arts; Professor of Music Managing Director, Theatre Institute at Russell Sage
Instructor of Dance