<p>What's the difference? Both are liberal arts?</p>
<p>On the performance arts web page it says, "Students majoring in Performance Studies take classes in the department, in Theatre (though typically not the sequence of acting classes)."</p>
<p>Does this mean that performance arts is not for potential actors?</p>
<p>Correct. If you want to be in their acting program you need to be a Theatre major and starting Sophomore year you work with the same professor and kids in theatre class for the next 3 years. I recently met the head of the Performance Studies dept. and he is a wonderful man, if you have more questions I would contact him directly and I’m sure he’d be very happy to explain the program.</p>