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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dc is a theater kid. Decent voice, decent acting abilities, but is not top, definitely not professional. But they love theater so much and want to do it as a heavy activity in college. Which colleges have a big/strong theater program where a kid who loves to perform can have opportunities and a lot of fun?

Fwiw: Kid is also has a great GPA and rigorous course load in public school, good extracurriculars. Loves history, art, and writing. But theater is their passion, even if it’s not their future. [/quote]

Are you asking about colleges with good student run theatre groups where a non-major has a good chance to participate or is your kid looking into a minor in theatre?  Also is it theatre specifically or would they also be interested in theatre adjacent like student run groups for dance, film, improv, or singing?

University of Michigan has several student-run clubs for theatre as well as many more if you include dance, vocal, and improv.  William & Mary, has lots of a cappella groups and is known for having a strong extracurricular in that area.  [/quote]

Michigan has the Residential College which operates an in-dorm 300 seat theater for the enrollees admitted to the RC to use to put on shows.  I just went to their very nice strolling outdoor production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It".  Another group is the North Campus "Rude Mechanicals". U of M also has strong a cappella. All of these are open to non-theatre/non-music majors.

While looking at schools, I noticed that Illinois Champaign Urbana had a student org that puts on musicals.

Baldwin-Wallace in Ohio does very high quality shows and does send grads to Broadway.  I don't know if there are many barriers to entry but it's a small college with a heavy focus on music training.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Baldwin_Wallace_University_people[/quote]

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