Wesleyan sponsors an active program in dramatic art within the Department of Theater, which serves as a producing educational theater in the liberal arts setting. Second Stage, an extracurricular student theater group, has its headquarters and also sponsors productions in the '92 Theater, in cooperation with the Theater Department.
Many students participate in some aspect of theater during their years at Wesleyan.
The most seriously interested become theater majors, while others take only a few courses or work solely on an extracurricular basis. All types of involvement are desired and welcome. Application to become a major is usually made in the second semester of the sophomore year. The theater major is an integrated program of study, and each student develops an acquaintance with the art that is both broad and deep. The major, then, would not be appropriate for a student who wants to focus entirely on only one aspect of theater.