From opera to Broadway musicals to experimental music theater, the many hybrids of singing, acting, and movement are among the most historically significant, socially relevant, and artistically adventurous forms of performance. With a liberal arts education as its base, Princeton's certificate program in music theater encourages students to explore music theater as an intensely collaborative art form, as a key component of world cultures, and as an entertainment genre that shapes and is shaped by history, economics, politics, and technology.
The Program in Music Theater,(link is external) part of the Lewis Center for the Arts(link is external), encompasses Princeton's curricular tripartite of creation, performance, and study. Students in the program take courses in music, theater, and dance, as well as related courses in other departments, taught by faculty across the University who compose, write, create, perform, and research music theater's various forms that combine music, dance, text, and design. Additional classes are taught by visiting guest artists. Students can create new music theater work, participate in music theater production, and/or produce new scholarship in music theater history, theory, and criticism.

