Theatre Concentration

Inside the Backdoor Playhouse

Backdoor Playhouse Stage

Vagina Monologues

Fantasticks

Enactment

Greenroom

Backdoor Playhouse Entrance

History of the Backdoor Playhouse

Offering the Finest Theatre in the Upper Cumberland for Over Sixty Years!

Located at 805 Quadrangle in the Jere Whitson Memorial Building, thousands of actors and technicians have contributed to hundreds of productions from playwrights ranging from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Ensler and Kushner. The Backdoor Playhouse is still considered by many to be the best kept secret on the Tech campus. I guarantee that we are a secret worth discovering. 

As a community of faculty, staff, volunteers and students, we are committed to theater education that combines art and scholarship. We seek to foster creativity, critical thinking, excellence, and professionalism through the integration of courses, productions, workshops, and other activities. We seek to understand theatre not only as a means of artistic expression and a form of entertainment but as a window into history, a way to examine the question of what it means to be human, and a vehicle for social change.

 We invite you to join us in this mission. The English major with a theatre concentration combines drama study and theatre training in a comprehensive curriculum in a liberal arts tradition. The performance and production program offers opportunities for majors and non-majors alike to gain valuable skills and memorable experiences working onstage or backstage. For more information about our program, contact the artistic director, look around this website, or just stop by the Tennessee Tech Backdoor Playhouse and say hello.