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Theatre Arts Center Overview

Upcoming Events

 
February 27 - March 1

RAGE

April 25

2020 New Play Festival

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.

Current Season

2019-20 Season

Rage

RAGE

February 27 - March 1

Book & lyrics by Elizabeth Dinkova
Original music and additional lyrics by Frederick Kennedy
Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova

Adapted from the novel, "Rage," and essay, "Guns," by Stephen King
“Rage” © 1977 Stephen King
“Guns” © 2013 Stephen King

The play with music RAGE tells the story of a writer’s decades-long struggle with his first novel, Rage, a diary of a school shooter, which “inspired” readers with deadly results. As the writer plunges back into his early work to discover the causes of teenage disenfranchisement and violence, he is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about the thin line between creation and destruction.

Trigger warning: simulated physical and gun violence, discussion of mental illness, domestic abuse, sexual assault, police brutality, and bullying.

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Interdisciplinary discussion of ‘RAGE’

The theater department’s upcoming production of “RAGE,” which addresses gun violence in schools, was the topic of a panel discussion February 12 exploring the reasons behind its decision to take on a subject that can spark controversy.

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2020 New Play Festival

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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Red Speedo

2019-20 Season Past Productions

2 male actors on stage, sitting on a bench, speaking to each other in the staged swimming pool area

Red Speedo

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

2 female actresses sit and talk to each other during the performance

Baltimore

By Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Aleta Staton

When a racially-charged incident divides her first-year students, reluctant resident adviser 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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Past Theater Productions

By Kirsten Greenidge; Directed by Aleta Staton. November 7-10, 2019, Quinnipiac University Theatre Arts Center. When a racially charged incident divides her first-year students, reluctant resident adviser 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.

Baltimore

By Kirsten Greenidge; Directed by Aleta Staton. November 7-10, 2019, Quinnipiac University Theatre Arts Center. When a racially charged incident divides her first-year students, reluctant resident adviser 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.

Visit Us

Visit the Theatre Arts Center

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    515 Sherman Avenue 
Hamden, CT 06518

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

By shuttle: The Green and Orange 
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