Arts and drama come together in the term performing arts. Theatre, stage arts, drama, acting, performing arts, and dance – all of these are performing arts, all of them with some degree of drama included. There are some academies with expansive curriculums that teach both the visual arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and also have a variety of performing arts programs. Certainly that is true of large universities that have comprehensive fine arts departments. It is also true of some of the larger and older academies of fine arts that have survived in this millennium with sufficient endowment and/or generous alumni.
There are also active professional theater groups that have performing arts studies programs, oriented to acting and the other stage arts. Actors Conservatory Theater in San Francisco is an example. The study of drama is serious business in New York and Los Angeles; the American Academy of Dramatic Arts has campuses in both cities. Columbia University of New York holds auditions for applicants to its undergraduate program in both New York and San Francisco. TVI Actors Studio is in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and has programs both for adults seeking professional careers and children who are introduced to the art form. Both the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles have fine film schools.
