About T2

Founded in 2005, TheatreSquared (T2) is Northwest Arkansas’s regional theatre, producing professional work that is challenging and heartfelt, intimate and entertaining. The theatre reaches an annual audience of 18,000 patrons, including 7,500 students and their teachers, offering 95 annual performances in the 180-seat Studio Theatre at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios.

As a professional company, TheatreSquared employs trained artists from across the country to design, direct and perform each new production. In the state of Arkansas, the theatre is one of only two year-round companies contracted with Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. In 2011, T2 was recognized by the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, as one of the nation's ten most promising emerging theatres.

In addition to its work on stage, the theatre’s educational outreach programs serve an additional 7,500 students and teachers throughout Arkansas. TheatreSquared's educational outreach programs include a statewide schools tour, bringing educational productions to 22 rural communities; the Word/Play in-school literacy initiative, engaging challenged readers through playwriting; the T2 Professional Development Institute, equipping Arkansas secondary educators with proven arts-based learning tools; and at the theatre, an access program to allow students to experience live, professional performances—many for the first time.
 

Vision Statement

We believe that theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities.

We envision a theatre that brings together not only audiences, but all segments of our community, a theatre that transcends differences by reminding us of our common humanity, one that inspires us to do better as people and as a people.

We envision a theatre that thrives as an essential, cultural, educational and economic component of our community—of our much-loved piece of the Ozarks, but also of our country and our world.

- Summer 2005