Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

MA and PhD

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

• Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD
• Jewish Studies
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD
• Knowledge Media Design
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD
• Sexual Diversity Studies
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD
• South Asian Studies
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD
• Women and Gender Studies
  • Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, MA, PhD

Overview

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The centre's own core courses focus on the program fields of dramaturgy, theatre history, and theory of drama. Within the parameters of these fields, the centre supports research in such areas as performance analysis and reception; Canadian, American, international, and intercultural theatre; Elizabethan and Restoration staging practices; historiography and performance; acting and modern staging theories and practices; performance aesthetics and politics; as well as play and project development.

A new aspect in the curriculum focuses on the impact of digital culture on theatre practice and research. Through affiliations with other graduate units, students may also take courses in drama, theatre, and performance from other departments, centres, and institutes across the University. Graduate students build on the foundation that would normally be laid in undergraduate studies with a concentration in theatre, drama, and performance studies. Performance practice is an integral part of graduate work in the centre and it takes place, for the most part, at the Robert Gill Theatre and the Luella Massey Studio Theatre.

For more information on application details, courses and faculty members, visit the departmental website.

Contact and Address

Web: www.cdtps.utoronto.ca
General email: graduate.drama@utoronto.ca
Associate Director of Graduate Studies: gc.graddrama@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-7980

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Toronto
UC Union Building
79 St. George Street
3rd Floor, Room 302
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E5
Canada

Not all courses listed will be offered every year. Registrants are advised to confirm course offerings by consulting the Centre's website, updated periodically through mid-summer, and by communicating with the Associate Director.

Core Program

Cross-Listed Courses

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies also cross-lists courses offered by other graduate units of the University of Toronto. A listing of approved courses, available during the academic year, appears on the Centre's website, which is updated in mid-summer. Students requesting courses from other units may be subjected to quotas and/or wait lists. Language and literature departments do not always provide courses in English translation. Confirm all course information — including date, time, location — with the appropriate unit as well as with the centre's Graduate Administrator.