“So proud to have my alma mater @BU_tweets named as one of @backstage’s Tried-&-True Acting Colleges! Go Terriers!” tweeted Ginnifer Goodwin (CFA’01), who stars as Snow White on the hit ABC show Once Upon a Time and who earned her degree at the College of Fine Arts School of Theatre.

Goodwin was referring to an article by the renowned performing arts magazine Backstage, which named Boston University one of the “5 Tried-and-True Acting Colleges” in the United States. The magazine commended the University for pushing actors “to be part of a play as well as understand the role their play takes on in a larger discussion.” The story lauded the philosophy of Jim Petosa, director of the School of Theatre and a CFA professor of directing and dramatic criticism: theater is “a force for understanding aspects of humanity, whether at the geopolitical level or at the local level. We’re not bound to one style or method, but we do tend to stress plays that really have an impact on our understanding of societal phenomenon.”

BU is in the company of Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Read the article at Backstage.