AT “The Orphans’ Home Cycle” titles and dates move across the screen like “Star Wars” credits taking a detour. At “Fela!” newspaper headlines like “Fela Declares Self ‘Black Power Man’ ” pop up on a screen. Even at “Safe Home,” a low-budget, bare-bones production that opened Off Broadway this year, scene changes were announced with 1950s newsreel footage.

Lately, it seems, going to the theater is a lot like going to the movies. There’s often a screen upstage, and either film footage, photo stills or a combination of the two — collectively known as projections — are part of the show. So much so that the Yale School of Drama is going to offer a full-fledged projection design program starting this fall. Now you can major in it.

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