Quinnipiac University Theater

The Theatre Arts Center, located just around the corner from the York Hill Campus, is a 12,000-square-foot facility featuring a two-story black-box theater, scenic shop, design studios, classrooms, faculty offices, a student lounge and additional rehearsal space. It is the perfect space for Quinnipiac to stage their world-class productions.

Upcoming Productions

‘Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show’

A rock musical based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s banned classic The Master and Margarita, Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show takes inspiration from the courageous resistance of dissident artists like Pussy Riot to explore the potency and peril of speaking truth to power, the relationship between good and evil, and the freedom of the spirit in an unfree world.

In 1930s Moscow, the Master—an idealistic writer—is silenced and detained in an asylum. Margarita, his collaborator and lover, embarks on a quest through heaven and hell to save him and his manuscript.

Our guides are Satan himself (in the guise of a mysterious gentleman-magician named Professor Woland) and his retinue of demonic rock musicians who aim to wreak havoc on a society filled with corrupt social climbers, bureaucrats and profiteers.

Presented at the Theatre Arts Center:

Friday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 26 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 27 at 2 p.m.
Thursday, October 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 2 at 2 p.m.

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Director’s Message

Student actor singing dramatically into a microphone

Welcome to QU Theater!

A Letter from Abbey Copeland

Quinnipiac Theater is the exciting home to new musicals, world-premiere student-written and student-directed plays, theater for the community and so much more!

We offer an exciting theater minor that explores all areas of theater production, performance and design. We also have many on and off-stage opportunities including faculty and student-directed productions, a student theater organization, an improv troupe, theater workshops, musical theater and new play development. These opportunities are open to all Quinnipiac students, regardless of major.

You will work with guest artists from New York, New Haven, and around the world to develop new plays and musicals, as well as imaginative interpretations of the classics. Be a part of a world premiere!

Quinnipiac Theater also works in partnership with individuals and organizations in using the power of theater within the community. Projects in recent years have included the musical Rage and the As We Emerge project, which focused on gun violence and stories of those recently incarcerated, respectively.

This program is highly individualized and you will be sure to find a path that’s right for you.

Are you a prospective student or current student interested in our Theater program? Please contact Kevin Daly to discuss all academic opportunities.

Are you interested in the performances Quinnipiac Theater produces each semester? Please contact Abbey Copeland to discussion all Quinnipiac Theater has to offer.

Quinnipiac Theatre Arts Center

Quinnipiac Theater Arts Center — This state-of-the-art facility, located at 515 Sherman Avenue in Hamden, houses the university’s main stage theater, where the university’s annual theater productions are held. The Theatre Arts Center also houses faculty offices, rehearsal rooms, a design studio, a fully equipped scenic shop, dressing rooms and more. All university theater productions and student-run theater productions are housed in this building along with music concerts, dance shows, and other performances. In the summer, the building hosts professional theater companies from around the world.

Getting to the Quinnipiac Theatre Arts Center

Quinnipiac Theatre Arts Center
515 Sherman Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: 203-582-3500

Interactive Map

Directions from I-91

Take I-91 North or South to Exit 10.
Take Route 40 to the end and turn right onto Whitney Avenue.
Proceed 1.3 miles, turn left onto Sherman Ave.
Proceed .5 miles, Quinnipiac Theater Arts Center is on the right.

Directions from I-95

Take I-95 to I-91 North.
Get off at Exit 10.
Take Route 40 to the end and turn right onto Whitney Avenue.
Proceed 1.3 miles, turn left onto Sherman Ave.
Proceed .5 miles, Quinnipiac Theater Arts Center is on the right.