Mission Statement:

The mission of the Bethany College Theatre & Communication Arts Program is firmly rooted in the mission of the college: to challenge the students to perform the spoken word as a means of communication both clearly and artistically and to nurture in students a sense of confidence and responsibility in their communication art.

Our purposes are:

•  to create an environment in which students are nurtured and challenged to seek and acquire knowledge broadly in the disciplines of Theatre, Communication, and Performance Studies.
•  to enable students to develop reading, writing, research, and critical thinking skills in those disciplines and beyond.
•  to allow students to hone their talents as performers, designers, directors, playwrights, speakers and communicators.
•  to enable students to understand the relationship between oral communication as performance and theatrical performance as communication.

 
The biannual Bethany College Theatre Student-Directed Short Play Festival will be held Thursday, May 1, through Saturday, May 3, in Burnett Center on the Bethany College campus.  more>