Harvard and Brown both have very good reputations in theater. I went to Dartmouth, and while I don’t think anyone would call it a real theater school, it has some very successful grads in film and theater – Mindy Kahling, Rachel Dratch, Connie Britton, for instance – and a strong network in the business end of entertainment (that is, lawyers, agents, etc.) There is also an annual competition for student playwrights and the school hosts New York Theater Workshop each summer, workshopping six plays over three weeks in August, several of which always go on to larger scale productions in NYC. (Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown workshopped there two years ago.) The cons are pretty obvious. Hanover is not a theater town. It is not quick or easy to get to NYC from there. And the culture overall at the college is not particularly arts focused.