Training Artists for Over 55 Years

四虎影视鈥檚 Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts offers professional training programs in acting, musical theatre, directing, design, technical theatre and stage management.

Sargent Conservatory is associated with professional theatre companies, two of which are on campus: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Explore below to learn more about our sequential and intensive programs for training theatre artists.

Meet our 2023-2024 seniors, whose work for highlights the array of experiences and artistic work integral to our training.

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Person in simple clothing stands under a spotlight stepping out of large wooden storage unit with many drawers.
Renaissance-themed theatre scene featuring actors in period costumes engaging in stage combat.
A performer on stage wears a white lace dress and large feathered wings, with hands gesturing outward. The background includes a chair and scattered paper.
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Three actors move among multiple levels centered on stylized tree.
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Two men sit at a diner table with condiments in the background; one is in a sheriff's uniform, while the other is in casual outdoor clothing, animatedly gesturing as he speaks.

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Sargent Conservatory Season

WebCo Proudly Announces its 2024-2025 Season

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Sept. 19鈥�25
Our Town Nov. 8鈥�10
Ride the Cyclone Dec. 4鈥�8
The Legend of Georgia McBride Feb. 28鈥揗arch 2
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord March 29鈥�31
Cinderella May 2鈥�4

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by George Tabori
Stage III
Sept. 19鈥�25, 2024

The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a 鈥減rotection鈥� campaign. Through his unique approach to theatre, Brecht uses this simple story to inspire critical thinking about and a reconsideration of Hitler鈥檚 rise to power. The questions are intense, but the work remains boldly theatrical and entertaining.

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Our Town

By Thornton Wilder
Browning Mainstage Theatre
Nov. 8鈥�10, 2024

Described by Edward Albee as 鈥渢he greatest American play ever written,鈥� Our Town presents the small town of Grover鈥檚 Corners in three acts: 鈥淒aily Life,鈥� 鈥淟ove and Marriage鈥� and 鈥淒eath and Eternity.鈥� Thornton Wilder beautifully takes us from the everyday to the cosmic, asking us to consider our very humanity.

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Ride the Cyclone

Book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Emerson Studio Theatre
Dec. 4鈥�8, 2024

In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortuneteller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other 鈥� the chance to return to life.

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The Legend of Georgia McBride

By Matthew L贸pez
Emerson Studio Theatre
Feb. 28鈥揗arch 1, 2025

He鈥檚 young, he鈥檚 broke, his landlord鈥檚 knocking at the door, and he鈥檚 just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make matters even more desperate, Casey is fired from his gig as an Elvis impersonator in a run-down, small-town Florida bar. When the bar owner brings in a B-level drag show to replace his act, Casey finds that he has a whole lot to learn about show business 鈥� and himself.

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Our Dear Dead Drug Lord

By Alexis Scheer
Stage III
March 28鈥�30, 2025

A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A roller coaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood 鈥� the teenage wasteland 鈥� has never been so much twisted fun.

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Rodgers + Hammerstein鈥檚 Cinderella

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
New Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Browning Mainstage Theatre
May 2鈥�4, 2025

Rodgers + Hammerstein鈥檚 Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein鈥檚 most beloved songs, including 鈥淚n My Own Little Corner,鈥� 鈥淚mpossible/It's Possible鈥� and 鈥淭en Minutes Ago,鈥� alongside an up-to-date, hilarious and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane.

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  • Our Town
  • Ride the Cyclone
  • The Legend of Georgia McBride
  • Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
  • Cinderella

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  • Machinal (capstone)
  • Miss You Like Hell (capstone)
  • Bright Star

  • The Little Prince
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2005-2006 Season Photos:

  • The Spirit is Willing
  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • The Memory of Water
  • A New Brain
  • String of Pearls
  • The Man Who Came To Dinner

2004-2005 Season Photos:

  • Red Ink
  • The Lucky Chance
  • Ruthless! The Musical
  • A Piece of My Heart
  • Blythe Spirit
  • Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune (capstone)
  • Scotland Road (capstone)
  • Into the Woods

2003-2004 Season Photos:

  • Twenty and Two
  • Summer and Smoke
  • Rodgers and Hart: A Celebration
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Loot
  • Woyzeck (capstone)
  • Nine

2002-2003 Season Photos:

Full Season Archive

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Pippin
  • Violet
  • The Laramie Project
  • On the Verge
  • As Bees in Honey Drown (capstone)
  • Two Rockin' Gents

2001-2002 Season Photos:

Full Season Archive

  • Ten Little Indians
  • 42nd Street
  • 5th of July
  • Blood Wedding
  • Lucky Stiff
  • Heartbreak House
  • The Shape of Things (capstone)

2000-2001 Season Photos:

Full Season Archive

  • Female Transport
  • Company
  • As You Like It
  • Hedda Gabler
  • You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
  • The Women

1999-2000 Season Photos:

Full Season Archive

  • Collette Collage
  • Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • Picnic
  • School for Scandal
  • And Evening of One Acts 2000
  • Guys and Dolls

1998-1999 Season Photos:

Full Season Archive

  • Gemini
  • Grand Hotel
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • The Cherry Orchard
  • Cole
  • Macbeth

 

Apply to Webster's Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts

All future Webster Conservatory students follow a three-step process (Note: The Conservatory does not require a video or prescreening).

1: Apply to Webster

Application may be made through our website at , or you may apply through or .

After applying, you will receive an email with a form link.

2: Submit Form and Fee

Use link in the email to submit the Fine and Performing Arts Student Assessment Request Form and $30 fee for the Conservatory. You will be contacted with next step information to schedule a date and time for your review or interview.

3: Schedule Audition/Interview

To schedule your audition or interview at Webster, please go to Webster's Conservatory Auditions.

(Note: Acceptd does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.)

If you have any questions regarding the Conservatory or the audition or review process, please contact auditions@webster.edu.

Use of Acceptd is not required to be admitted to the program and does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.

The Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts is working in association with the online digital audition/portfolio company Acceptd. The use of Acceptd allows students to submit perusal materials to Webster and other programs. Although we view all postings to the Acceptd site, students interested in the Conservatory must schedule an official Webster audition or interview for the program to which they are applying. Acceptd does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.

To schedule your audition or interview at Webster, please go to Webster's Conservatory Auditions page.

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Hannah Browning
Edward Chase Garvey Memorial Endowed Scholarship Recipient

鈥淢y Webster degree will guide me through the process of telling stories of unheard perspectives and help to shed light on important issues. This, in turn, will enable me to be an instrument in creating a better world.鈥�

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BFA in Musical Theatre, 鈥�24

 

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