A message from the Chair…

Thank you for visiting the Rockford College Performing Arts Department. Welcome! You’re going to enjoy what we have to offer.

The Performing Arts Department offers a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, a Bachelor of Arts in General Music and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Performance.

The department’s goal is to provide the best in professional training blended with a strong liberal arts education. You’ll find that we prepare you not just for the first few years out of college, but for the rest of your life.

You’ll be able to perform in our two excellent performance spaces; Maddox Theatre, a 570 seat proscenium theatre, and Cheek Theatre, a flexible black box space. On average there are 12 productions utilizing these two theatres, 4 main-stage productions, 4 Three-Penny productions, and 4 productions by Artists Ensemble Theatre, our resident professional equity theatre company.

As a Performing Arts major, you’ll be taken three times each semester to see the best in professional theatre, music and dance in Chicago, Milwaukee or Madison. You’ll see performances in such places as The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Shubert Theatre, The Ford Center for the Performing Arts, The Lyric Opera House, and Orchestra Hall, home of the Chicago Symphony. And that’s just to name a few.

How about joining many of your fellow majors studying theatre in London. A great many of our Performing Arts majors spend a semester studying theatre at Regents College, Rockford College’s home in London. Situated in Regents Park in the heart of London, you’ll be only a couple tube stops from the most active and most historic theatre district in the world.

As you can see, there are many reasons to make Rockford College your place to shine. Please enjoy the rest of our web site. Then, give us a call.

Sincerely,

Noel Rennerfeldt
Associate Professor and Chair of the Performing Arts Department