Two students stand on the floor in the Theatre Arts Center

Quinnipiac University Theater

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Upcoming Events

As We Emerge: Monologues of the Formerly Incarcerated

Theatre Arts Center

The Theatre Arts Center on Sherman Avenue

The flexible, 12,000 square foot Theatre Arts Center is a specifically designed performance space, featuring a baby Steinway piano and a completely customizable layout.

The facility includes a costume shop and storage, a scene shop, a lighting and management booth and academic spaces, making it a true hub for theater and music performances.

A male student holds a script and performs in front of a black curtain during an audition

Under the bright lights

Connor Whiteley ’19 auditions for an upcoming performance Saturday, September 9, 2017, at the Theatre Arts Center.

Three students with scripts rehearse a scene in the grass outside the Theatre Arts Center building with other students nearby.

Autumn auditions

Students rehearse their scenes outside of the Theatre Arts Center during audition call backs for a fall performance.

Upcoming Performances

Upcoming performances

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Friday, October 12 - Sunday, October 21
Quinnipiac University Theatre Arts Center
515 Sherman Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut 06518

Shakespeare's popular comedy of love, intrigue, magic and mayhem!
Directed by Keely Baisden

Tickets

Students, seniors, faculty and staff - $10
General admission - $15

Buy tickets

A Midsummer Nights Dream poster, features a plant that seems to be dripping like paint with a moon on it.

AS WE EMERGE: Monologues of the Formerly Incarcerated

November 9 and 10, 7:30 p.m.
Quinnipiac University Theatre Arts Center
515 Sherman Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut 06518

Current members of the Emerge New Haven Program tell their stories of the American Criminal Justice System.

Conceived by Don C. Sawyer III

This production is a collaboration between EMERGE New Haven, the QU Theater Program, the QU Department of Cultural and Global Engagement, and The QU Prison Project. EMERGE New Haven is a self-sufficient social enterprise with a dual commitment to helping formerly incarcerated persons and at-risk youth make a successful return to their families as responsible members, and to their communities as law-abiding, contributing citizens.

All proceeds from this production will go directly to EMERGE New Haven.

Tickets

Students, seniors, faculty and staff - $10
General admission - $15

Buy tickets

Next to Normal

Wednesday, February 27 - Sunday, March 3
Quinnipiac University Theatre Arts Center
515 Sherman Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut 06518

Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, “Next to Normal” explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness.
Directed by James Noble

Tickets

Students, seniors, faculty and staff - $10
General admission - $15

Buy tickets

Visit Us

Visit the Theatre Arts Center

Theatre Arts Center

515 Sherman Avenue 
Hamden, CT 06518

By car: Whitney Avenue to Sherman 
Avenue. Parking is onsite.

By shuttle: The Green and Orange 
Loop shuttles run between York Hill, 
Theatre Arts Center and Mount Carmel Campus

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Students reading scripts in front of a black curtain in the Theatre Arts Center

Quote

“In theater, we teach that it’s not just the big moments that make life meaningful, but all of the small moments in between that make life truly special.”

Kevin Daly, Theater Program Director