DFPA: Theatre
Interdisciplinary study in the formation of adaptable theatre artists.
By nurturing and educating actors, directors, administrators, playwrights, designers, and technicians, we prepare theatre artists to enter any aspect of the industry.
Our Stories

Alumni
Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series 鈥淭he Bob Newhart Show鈥 and 鈥淣ewhart鈥 were huge hits throughout the 1970s and 鈥80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94.

In the Media
"The most epic human is now an ancestor. He taught me and so many actors. He was special not just because he was a talented director and tough ass professor. But because he held space for the black theatre students at Loyola to learn, grow, and thrive. I learned August Wilson from this man. I wouldn鈥檛 be the actor I am today without this man. There just aren鈥檛 enough words to describe what he means to me and so many others.鈥 - Angela Alise, Chicago actor

Loyola Today features Fairview in the Arts & Culture section."An antique dining table, an upholstered ottoman, and a blanket draped over an armchair with calculated effortlessness. It might look like your great aunt鈥檚 house, but it鈥檚 the set of Fairview, a Pulitzer prize-winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. DeRon Williams, PhD, is directing the show at Loyola this spring." - Vivian Ewing