Theatre and New Dance

The Department of Theatre and New Dance

Welcome to the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Theatre and New Dance!

Cal Poly Pomona's Department of Theatre and New Dance awards undergraduate degrees in theatre, emphasizing theatrical production and the "doing" of theatre. At the same time, the Department offers courses in all aspects of theatre, both artistic and academic. After completing the theatre major at Cal Poly Pomona, students are prepared to begin their careers or specialized training in professional theatre, television or film; to go for advanced training in graduate schools; or to go into teaching in high schools. We are proud to boast alumni in numerous professional positions throughout the entertainment industry.

The Wolves
March 8 - 17, 2024

Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Winner of the 2015 Relentless Award for Playwriting! A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. 

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The Last, Best Small Town
April 18 - 24, 2024

Two neighboring families — one Latinx and one white — live in nearby Fillmore, the self-proclaimed "Last, Best Small Town in Southern California." Set during the first decade of the 2000s, Guerra's play is a striking 21st-century response to Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

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Faculty/Student Dance Concert
May 3 & 4, 2024

Join us for a celebration of movement and dance created in collaboration with the students and faculty of our Theatre & New Dance Department.

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Festival of Student Written Plays
May 7-9, 2024

An evening of original, hot-off-the-presses plays written by the department's playwriting students. The plays speak to multiple truths and explore ways of making sense of contemporary concerns that pull at us every day, realized through the rich and generating relationship between actors and playwrights.

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