The Theatre Arts Season offers a significant range of dramatic literature annually. A faculty-directed production is mounted each semester, along with Student-Directed One Acts in fall, the Senior Theatre Festival in the spring, and other productions initiated by faculty and students. Recent faculty-directed plays include Angels in America-Part I, The Wild Goose Circus, Iphigenia at Aulis, Henry V, Into the Woods, The Three Sisters, Tartuffe, A Streetcar Named Desire, and A Comedy of Errors. Students have directed and designed such plays as Cabaret, Much Ado About Nothing, Marisol, and Polaroid Stories as part of the Senior Theatre Festival.

Endowments, including the Norton Clapp Visiting Artist Series, bring outstanding contemporary theatre makers to campus for workshops and presentations. Recent visitors have included Russell Davis, Bill T. Jones, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Godfrey Hamilton and Mark Pinkosh, Holly Hughes, and Steven Dietz, as well as Pulitzer prize winners Edward Albee and Robert Schenkkan. Performances are staged in the 250-seat Norton Clapp Theatre. Theatre Arts encourages all university students, regardless of major, to participate in all aspects of theatrical production, both onstage and behind the scenes.