<p>I was trying to find out if there is an audition into Northeastern’s theatre program. I’ve searched CC, and I still couldn’t tell if an audition figured into it. This is what I found on the NEU website:</p>
<p>“After completing 32 quarter hours, theatre majors may choose to be theatre generalists or to concentrate in production or performance. Admission to a concentration is by petition or audition.”</p>
<p>This suggests that you can get in by regular means, but then you audition later (not sure how long … 2nd year? 3rd year?), I’m imagining they mean for the performance major (petition would be for the others?). </p>
<p>Anyone know the details on this particular program? I know they have MT, too, but I’m asking more about straight theatre. Curious about the audition issue, but also the experience in general.</p>
<p>I have a student in this year’s cycle who is a theater applicant who has Northeastern as her safety school (both academically and artistically). She is already accepted. There is no audition to be admitted as a freshman. But at many schools, when you are in a BA program, and wish to enter a major, they have an audition for the performance track (not all have this but I guess Northeastern does). But there is no audition to be admitted as a freshman who wants to major in theater.</p>
<p>Thanks, soozie! You are such a font of knowledge. It was a post of yours that mentioned NEU before. These kinds of programs at least let a student start the major and explore what they want. I get the impression that the coops at NEU also do send students out into the actual field, which could be very interesting. But we’d have to do a lot of research. Luckily we’re in Boston regularly and can visit.</p>
<p>I hope if your student ends up there she has a good experience. I know lots of people who have really liked NEU, in other areas.</p>
<p>emmybet, I’d check out Brandeis, which wouldn’t be an academic safety but is just a great school with a great nonaudition theater dept. And UNH, which seems to have a very good (nonaudtion) theater dept, and has a train station on campus…an hour to Boston. And it might be an academic safety too.</p>