Partners
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
FTT is housed in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC), which has five performance venues, including the Regis Philbin Studio Theatre and the Patricia George Decio Theatre; the THX-certified Browning Cinema; scene shop, costume shop, dressing rooms, rehearsal hall, recording studio, and editing rooms, as well as classrooms and faculty offices.
As the primary presenter of cinematic and artistic programming, DPAC has hosted renowned filmmakers, critics, and creatives, collaborates annually with local artists, and has commissioned over 40 new works across various genres. As an academic space, the center enriches scholarship, teaching, and practice in the performing and cinematic arts. As a community space, the center welcomes over 100,000 patrons annually, including hundreds of K–12 students participating in educational and artistic programs.
The center is an open, welcoming space for all where scholars, students, and community members come together to create a vibrant arts community.
Opera Notre Dame
An ensemble of the Notre Dame Department of Music, Opera Notre Dame is dedicated to the study of opera through production in the Notre Dame liberal arts environment.
Opera is an art form and cultural tradition that conveys emotion via the dynamic interplay of music, drama, visual art, and movement.
Opera ND challenges students to engage with the musical, sociopolitical, and spiritual content of the operas it explores. Opera ND seeks to produce compelling works of lyric theatre that innovate, provoke, and inspire, with the ultimate goal of connecting diverse communities through a shared artistic experience.
Past productions have included Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Magic Flute, The Pirates of Penzance, Faust, Sweeney Todd, and Proving Up, and L’incoronazione di Poppea.
Shakespeare at Notre Dame
FTT shares a close relationship with Shakespeare at Notre Dame, which encompasses a number of different initiatives, including the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (NDSF) and Actors From The London Stage. FTT students are regularly accepted to NDSF’s Apprentice Program, where they work side by side with career professionals as actors, stitchers, carpenters, board operators, teaching artists, and run crew.
Shakespeare at Notre Dame is dedicated to advancing the study and performance of William Shakespeare for the audiences, students, and scholars of today and tomorrow. By producing programming that aligns contemporary societal values with the versatile worlds created within Shakespeare’s canon, it seeks to “hold the mirror up to nature” and imagine bold, new realities—both onstage and off—which champion a diversity of thought and identity; reinvent models of engagement toward greater access, inclusion, and equity; and contribute to the global dialogue of Shakespeare’s possibility in the here and now.
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art features 23 galleries and numerous site-specific commissions by internationally renowned artists. The galleries integrate painting, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper, and textiles. A multi-story Sculpture Court is an integral feature of the building, with natural light that creates a luminous and spacious area for displaying sculpture. The Teaching Gallery, Learning Commons, and Object Study Room celebrate the vital educational mission of the Museum and nestled in the central atrium, the cafe and bookshop provide a complete visitor experience.
Through its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art serves and welcomes all to engage in wonder, spiritual reflection, inquiry, and research.