THEA 101 - Introduction to Theatre
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Satisfies: Flexible Core – Creative Expression
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Prerequisites: None
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Instructor: Claudia Orenstein
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3 Credits
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Lecture Section 1: MoTh 11:30AM – 12:20P+Discussion sections
DISCUSSION SECTIONS:
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Mo 10:30AM - 11:20AM
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Mo 1:30PM - 2:20PM
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Mo 2:30PM - 3:20PM
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Mo 4:00PM - 4:50PM
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Th 10:30AM – 11:20AM
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Th 2:30PM - 3:20PM
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Th 4:00PM - 4:50PM
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Th 12:30PM - 1:20PM
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Th 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Lecture Section 2: MoWe 4:00PM – 5:15PM
Description:
Study the elements of theatre arts-acting, directing, playwriting, design from standpoints of both viewer and participant. This class consists of a lecture session and discussion session. Students must sign up for the discussion session as well. To view discussion section schedules, click on “Sign Up” to be directed to class search on CUNYFirst.
THEA 21100 - World Theatre 1
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Satisfies: Flexible Core – Creative Expression, Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: ENGL 12000 and THEA 10100
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Instructor: Jonathan Kalb
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Section: MoWe 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course introduces and examines a selection of theatres that originated and developed from antiquity until the early seventeenth century in Egypt, Europe, Asia, and America. Instead of focusing exclusively on what happened, we will concern ourselves primarily with how: How have theatre and performance scholars set about understanding historical theatre events? How do we relate ancient theatrical events to our present situations? How does one conduct historical research? In short, how do we do theatre history? This last question is perhaps the most important since, in this class, we will not so much learn about theatre history, but perform the role of theatre historians, historiographers, and theoreticians.
THEA 21300 - World Theatre 3
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Satisfies: Flexible Core – Creative Expression, Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: ENGL 12000 and THEA 10100
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Instructor: TBA
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Section: TuFr 11:30AM - 12:45PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course introduces and examines a selection of plays and performance styles from various parts of the world during the period between 1850 and present day. Through a study of dramatic works, critical texts, and historical contexts, we will explore the intersection between the performing arts and the changing world around them. The course will illustrate how global developments inspired theatremakers to respond to the periods of modernism and beyond.
THEA 25100 - Theatre Production
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Prerequisites: THEA 10100
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Instructor: TBA
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Section: TuFri 1:30PM - 3:20PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course will introduce you to the practical aspects of theatre production through a combination of readings, discussions, guests, and hands-on experience. Class meetings will include lectures and discussions, and visits from Department of Theatre faculty and staff. Another important aspect of this class is that we are responsible for making sure that the departmental productions are of the highest artistic quality, are ready on time, and run smoothly.
THEA 25350 - SpecialTopics: Theater Performance
THEA 39728- Advanced Acting Workshop
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Prerequisites: Departmental Permission Required
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Instructor: Benjamin Moore
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Section: TBA
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3 Credits
Description:
Class for students cast in the fall production; days and times are determined based upon the rehearsal schedule.
THEA 26100- Acting II : American Realism
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Prerequisites: THEA 16100
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Section 1: MoTh, 1:30PM-3:20PM Instructor: Adrienne Williams
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Section 2: TuFri, 11:30AM-1:20PM
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3 Credits
Description:
Continuation of scene study focusing on text analysis, personalization, objective and action using the world realistic repertory, such as the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg. It is recommended that this course be taken with THEA 26300.
THEA 26300 - Basic Voice and Movement For Performers
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Prerequisites: None
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Instructor:Benjamin Moore
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Section: TuFr, 10:00AM-11:15AM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course helps the performer develop authority, range, and freedom in their artistic work. Using the Linklater approach, students learn how to release physical tensions and integrate their body, voice and creativity through exercises. Through text work students will develop their creative imagination and sharpen their articulation. By the end of this course students will have gained more artistic confidence and connection, and leave with a physical and vocal foundation for their rehearsal and performance work
32100 - Play Analysis
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Satisfies: Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: THEA 21100 or THEA 21200 or THEA 21300
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Instructor: TBA
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Section: MoTh 11:30AM – 12:45PM
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3 Credits
Description:
The course aims to develop a set of conceptual and analytical tools for the close reading and interpretation of plays as “blueprints” or “scores” for theatrical performance. The course provides an analytical vocabulary useful both to students with a general interest in theater and to aspiring theater artists. Drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks, the course focuses not only on what a play represents and means but also, more importantly, how it does so: how a dissection of a play’s structure can illuminate the play’s dramatic dynamics and theatrical potential. The course introduces students to a wide range of dramatic genres and forms, their formal principles, and to the embodiment of those principles in particular texts. While providing essential historical context for interpreting those genres and forms, the course provides an “inside-out” approach to the reading of plays.
THEA 37100- Directing I
THEA 37200- Directing II
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Prerequisites: (THEA 21100 or THEA 21200 or THEA 21300) and THEA 26100 and THEA 32100.
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Instructor: Barbara Bosch
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Section: MoTh 4:00PM – 5:50PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This is an intensive laboratory course in directing for the stage. We will discuss the history of directing and work on text analysis, principles of staging, picturization, rhythm, working with actors and designers and rehearsing a play. We will discuss and practice the basic technique elements that are necessary for the director. We will investigate how to have successful collaborations with all members of the production team. The specifics of organizing your rehearsal calendar – from auditions, to run-throughs, technical rehearsals, etc. will be investigated.
THEA 39000- Costume, Fashion & Cultural Studies
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Prerequisites: ENGL 12000 or non-Degree
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Instructor: Deepsikha Chatterjee
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Section: MoTh 1:00PM – 2:15PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course enables students to understand fashion and costume (clothes worn by people) using the lens of cultural studies. The course will take students on a journey of non-Western clothing alongside Euro-Western clothing and under major critical movements and concepts such as cultural studies, Orientalism, post-coloniality, subalternity, pan-Africanism, feminism and gender, material culture, thing theory, visual dramaturgy, to reveal how clothes and costumes are shaped by such forces. Readings in theatre and performance, anthropology, sociology, film and media, history (and microhistories such as fashion history and theatre history) and other areas will help students develop an understanding of the global aesthetics of the body on stage, on screen and on the street.
THEA 39731 - Storytelling & Contemporary Culture
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Prerequisites: THEA 21100 or THEA 21200 or THEA 21300 or permission from instructor.
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Instructor: Christine Scarfuto
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Section: We 10:00AM – 12:45PM
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3 Credits
Description:
The most popular stories of our time, from Star Wars to Game of Thrones, are influenced by plays and movements from theatre history. Join us for a thrilling study of story structure throughout theatre history and examine how it has influenced some of the most beloved writing of today. For permission of the instructor, email: (cs3858@hunter.cuny.edu).
THEA 16100 - Acting I : Basic Acting Techniques
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Satisfies: -
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Low Textbook Cost – Low Textbook Cost
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Prerequisites: None
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Instructor: Various
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SECTIONS
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TuFr 10:00AM -11:15AM Instructor: Michale Mclntire
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TuFr 11:30AM -12:45PM
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TuFr 1:00PM - 2:15PM
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TuFr 2:30PM - 3:45PM
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MoTh 11:30AM - 12:45PM Instructor: Adrienne Williams
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MoTh 10:00 AM - 11:15PM
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MoTh 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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MoWe 5:30PM - 6:45PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This will be an introductory course that explores the fundamental elements of acting. The mission of this course is to awaken the emotional, imaginative, and transformative powers in each of us. We will explore what it means to really be a storyteller through plays, recommended texts, improvisation, scene work, and monologues. Each student will explore harnessing their own personal experiences (sense memory), to help inform their acting. Finally, this course will enhance the actor's ability to channel "self" (body, mind, and experience), through one’s acting in a TRUTHFUL and believable way; pushing each student’s willingness, readiness, and resilience to transform the "self" beyond its pre-established boundaries.
THEA 21200 - World Theatre 2
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Satisfies: Flexible Core – Creative Expression, Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: ENGL 12000 and THEA 10100
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Instructor: TBA
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Section: MoTh 10:00AM - 11:15AM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course introduces and examines a selection of theatres around the globe that originated and developed between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will read writings that will enable us to explore the histories and textual and performing characteristics of the examined theatres and their relations to the immediate cultural, social, political, and economic contexts. The goals are to acquire better understanding of the theatres and establish models of study that may be applied to examining other examples.
THEA 21401- Multicultural Theatre Performance
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Satisfies: Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: None
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Instructor: Dong Shin Chang
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Section: Tu 10:00AM - 12:45PM
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3 Credits
Description:
In a collaborative workshop format, the course Multicultural Theatre Performance: Engaging Community Voices and Stories introduces and explores ways of creating theatre/performance pieces that celebrate multicultural voices and stories and increase multicultural understanding and appreciation. The course brings students into direct contact with artists from the leading NYC interdisciplinary theater company Ping Chong and Company, and learn from them the company’s signature "Undesirable Elements" methodology of creating interview-based theater works. Students will share personal histories, engaging with documentary theater methodologies and developing works-in-progress to be shared at course’s conclusion. No performance or theater experience necessary.
THEA 25357- Musical Theatre Workshop 1
THEA 39770 - Musical Theater Performance
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Prerequisites: THEA 10100
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Instructor: Micah Elijah Caldwell
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Section: Tu/Fri 4:00PM-5:50PM
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3 Credits
Description:
Telling stories through song! To obtain a sense of ease with the voice across a multitude of styles of music. An exemplary application of material across styles/genres. A training to be a professional artist.
THEA 26200- Acting III : World Realism
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Prerequisites: THEA 26100
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Instructor: Barbara Bosch
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Section: MoTh 1:30PM-3:20PM
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3 Credits
Description:
Continuation of scene study focusing on text analysis, personalization, objective, and action using the world realistic repertory, such as the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. It is recommended that this course be taken with THEA 26300.
THEA 28100 - Visual Elements of Theatre
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Prerequisites: THEA 10100
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Instructor: Ian Calderon
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Section: MoWe 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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3 Credits
Description:
Explore the visual storytelling methods, techniques, and tools available to support the playwright’s narrative and the director’s concept for a theatrical production. We will examine the evolution and styles of the stage picture, theatre architecture, music halls and motion picture palaces. We will also address the advent of new visual media, such as digital projection, animation, and its impact on the contemporary audience experience. The class will also attend Broadway Theatre performances.
THEA 36500- Screen Acting
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Prerequisites: THEA 26200
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Instructor: Michael McIntire
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Section: Tu 2:30PM – 5:15PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course will provide students with fundamental skills used in the craft of Acting for the Camera. The focus of the course work will be on the Actor’s approach to the Film and Television mediums. Through exercises and scene work students will develop practical skills and basic techniques to use on set and in audition settings.
THEA 37600- Playwriting I
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Satisfies: Writing Intensive
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Prerequisites: ENGL 12000 and THEA 10100.
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Instructor: TBA
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Section: TuFr 4:00PM - 5:15PM
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3 Credits
Description:
Students will learn the fundamental tools that a playwright employs, culminating in a final one-act play. We will be reading & discussing plays and completing writing exercises to help open students to the world of exploration and experimentation that playwriting should be. We will be focusing on elements such as patterns, rhythm, environment, internal structure/ rules, and more – and then playing around with them.
THEA 38300- Costume Design I
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Satisfies:
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Prerequisites: THEA 28100 or THEA 28500.
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Instructor: Deepsikha Chatterjee
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Section: MoTh 10:30AM – 12:20PM
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3 Credits
Description:
This course introduces the principles, elements, and practicalities of costume design and their relation to design in the theatre. Students will learn how to communicate design choices both visually and verbally through rendering techniques and research. They will also develop their skills in character analysis, period research, and costume construction. Material from a diverse and global perspective will be employed here..
Graduate Courses
THC 72527 - New York Theatre Now
Instructor: Jonathan Kalb
Section: We 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Description:
A contemporary drama class surveying the current New York scene, with emphasis on plays and playwrights recently produced, and those amenable to background reading, literary analysis, and theatrical analysis. Not all plays studied will still be running during the semester. Some group theatergoing outings will be arranged.
THC 73100 - MFA-Playwriting 1
OPEN TO MFA STUDENTS ONLY
Instructor: TBA
Section: Mo 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Description:
This course is designed for experienced playwrights. Students will complete a ten minute play including three rewrites and a new one act play with three rewrites, with attention to the fundamentals of playwriting: Character, Action, Story, Tone. Readings during the semester. Writing Requirements: A ten-minute play and a one-act play in several drafts, a journal, and other writing exercises.
THC 75810 - South Asian Performance Traditions
Instructor: Claudia Orenstein
Section: Mo 4:15PM-6:15PM
Description:
Combined with THEA 85200. Meets at the Graduate Center. This course focuses on traditional dance, dance-drama, puppetry, and other performance forms in South Asia, primarily in India but also including Nepal, Tibet, and Sri Lanka. These include bharata natyam, kutiyattam, kathakali, chhau, ramlila, tholpavakoothu, kathputli, lha mo, and cham among others. We investigate these traditions in terms of their long histories, significant performance elements (movement, costume, mask/make-up, texts, music etc.), and traditional social performance contexts, while also examining their current social and performance settings through the lenses of contemporary critical discourses on nationalism, globalization, gender, caste/class/ethnicity, and tourism and heritage performance. The course addresses both basic issues of training methods, performance aesthetics, and social and ritual functions, as well as complex questions about sustaining traditional forms in changing social, cultural, and political contexts, intercultural borrowing, and the transformation of traditions.bharata natyam, kutiyattam, kathakali, chhau, ramlila, tholpavakoothu, kathputli, lha mo, and cham among others. We investigate these traditions in terms of their long histories, significant performance elements (movement, costume, mask/make-up, texts, music etc.), and traditional social performance contexts, while also examining their current social and performance settings through the lenses of contemporary critical discourses on nationalism, globalization, gender, caste/class/ethnicity, and tourism and heritage performance. The course addresses both basic issues of training methods, performance aesthetics, and social and ritual functions, as well as complex questions about sustaining traditional forms in changing social, cultural, and political contexts, intercultural borrowing, and the transformation of traditions.
THC 72531 - Storytelling & Contemp Culture
Instructor: Christine Scarfuto
We 10:00AM - 12:45PM
Description:
The most popular stories of our time, from Star Wars to Game of Thrones, are influenced by plays and movements from theatre history. Join us for a thrilling study of story structure throughout theatre history and examine how it has influenced some of the most beloved writing of today. Please contact the instructor (cs3858@hunter.cuny.edu) for further information.
