Training
•Bullet: BA in Musical Theatre integrates the three musical-theatre disciplines — acting, music, and dance — in a Christ-centered curriculum within LCU's Department of Theatre (School of Media, Communication, and the Fine Arts)
•Bullet: Acting coursework grounds students in the Uta Hagen and Stanislavski methods
•Bullet: Interdisciplinary BA model pairs studio performance training with a liberal-arts foundation rather than a conservatory track
•Bullet: Department led by Tabitha Huffman, MFA
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Productions staged in the 400-seat black-box theatre inside the Martin Performing Arts Center, alongside a working television studio and KZLC-LP 95.5 FM radio station
•Bullet: Large-scale stagings also use Guinn Auditorium (1,800 seats), home to the Gladys Tatum West pipe organ — a 185-rank, five-manual Moeller organ, one of the largest in the Southern U.S.
Facilities
•Bullet: Martin Performing Arts Center (built 1992) centralizes theatre, journalism, and media communications with the black-box theatre, TV studio, and campus radio under one roof
Location
•Bullet: Located in Pineville, Louisiana, in the Alexandria metro area of central Louisiana
