<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>