Our department enjoys a highly respected national and international reputation for excellence in teaching and research.
We ranked fifth in the UK for the excellence of our teaching and learning in the 2006 Guardian League Tables.
Our distinctive undergraduate degree programme integrates theoretical and practical approaches to theatre.
Innovative postgraduate degrees - including Britain's flagship programme in Playwriting Studies - draw on the extensive resources of an outstanding university.
Full scale productions, involving staff and students, are held four to six times a year, at least two of which are directed by professional directors.
Research activity is led by the department's academic staff. See our research culture.
The department has ready access to both the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, one of England's most important venues for new playwriting.
Kate Newey, Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts, has been awarded a major research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for a 3 year project on A Cultural History of English Pantomime, 1837-1901, in collaboration with Jeffrey Richards, Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University.
The results of the Research and Assessment Exercise for 2008 were released in December:
Unless otherwise stated, all photography on the Drama and Theatre Arts webpages are courtesy Alan Wood.
'Oh! What a Lovely War', student performance 2007
Dr Russell Jackson:
'Glorifying the American Impresario: MGM's The Great Ziegfeld, 1936'
2-3pm, 11 November 2009
Lecture room 104, Orchard Learning Resource Centre, Selly Oak Campus
Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Email: drama@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)121 414 5998
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