The University Resident Theatre Association was founded in 1969 with the mission of supporting excellence in professional training of theatre artists, ensuring the continued renewal of the American theatre.
Since that time, URTA has grown to include many programs and services, all working toward that same goal. Whether it’s maintaining the highest quality standards for our member universities, helping to match potential students with the MFA program best suited to their needs, facilitating engagement of professional artists at universities, or expanding our offering of continuing education programming to students, faculty and professional artists, URTA is setting the stage for emerging theatre artists, superior theatre training, and professional advancement!
The Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota is the Minnesota’s largest professional Equity theater outside of the Twin Cities and has enjoyed unprecedented success since its…
A SPECIAL THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE AWAITS YOU IN ELMONT
Folger Theatre is the vibrant centerpiece of performing arts at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In our beautiful, intimate theater—the first Elizabethan-styled theatre built in North…
Mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the Asian American experience.
Winner of American Theatre Wing’s prestigious 2016 National Theatre Company Award, American Blues Theater is a premier arts organization with an intimate environment that patrons, artists,…
Welcome to Santa Cruz Shakespeare and our 2017 season!
Last year, we got to celebrate the opening of our brand new outdoor theater, The Audrey Stanley Grove, at Upper DeLaveaga Park. Built…
In 1963, Robert Gilmore and Irene Coger, theatre professors, met with Dick Haswell, head of the English department, to discuss a problem the Speech and Theatre program was facing. The theatre…
The seed of Seven Angels began in the City of Angels, when the L.A. writers’ strike of 1988 brought Semina DeLaurentis, an Equity actor working in television, home to Waterbury to await the…
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