Quinnipiac University Theater

Theatre Arts Center Overview

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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 Events

Red Speedo

October 10 - 13

By Lucas Hnath
Directed by Mariah Sage

Ray has swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he’ll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he’ll never need a real job. So when someone’s stash of performance-enhancing drugs is found in the locker room fridge, threatening the entire team’s Olympic fate, Ray has to crush the rumors or risk losing everything. A sharp and stylish play about swimming, survival of the fittest, and the American dream of a level playing field — or of leveling the field yourself.

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Baltimore

November 7 - 10

By Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Aleta Staton

When a racially-charged incident divides her first-year students, reluctant resident advisor Shelby finds herself in the middle of a conversation she does not want to have. As pressure to address the controversy mounts from residents, the new dean, and even her best friend, Shelby must decide if she will enter the fray or watch her community come apart at the seams. Sharp, funny, and searing, Baltimore is a timely drama about racism on college campuses.

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Rage

February 27 - March 1

By Stephen King
Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova

The Quinnipiac Theater program is excited to invite guest director/playwright, Elizabeth Dinkova to create an original musical with our students based on the novel, RAGE by Stephen King.

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2020 New Play Festival

April 25

The Barrow Group Mainstage Theatre
New York, NY

The 2020 New Play Festival is a collaboration between The Barrow Group, an off-broadway New York City producing Theater Company, and the Quinnipiac University Theater Program. Nearly fifty QU students will take on the roles of playwright, director, actor, and stage manager for seven world premier productions at the TBG maingstage theater just steps away from Times Square!

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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 (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

Past Performances

“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