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We look forward to welcoming you back to the Quick Center this fall!
Exemplifying physical creativity and the power of choreography, BODYTRAFFIC personifies the power of contemporary dance, appearing on Fairfield University’s Quick Center main stage on Friday, February 20.
With dancers hailing from around the globe, this Los Angeles-based group moves from one style and tone to the next, captivating all audience members with their innovative arrangements.
Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts is proud to serve as our region’s destination for daring, gutsy, and impactful dance.
A chronicler of America, when equipped with his camera, Stephen Wilkes captures the buzzing cityscapes and majestic tableaus of this nation in a manner few others can. Learn more about his craft when Wilkes, as part of Fairfield University’s America250: The Promise and Paradox initiative, presents “America the Beautiful: Time, Memory, and History” on Tuesday, March 31.
Armed with his Linhof camera and plenty of patience, Wilkes has travelled the length of the Pacific Coast Highway, through the forests and mountains of Yosemite and Yellowstone, to the concrete, glass, and steel of Manhattan as a National Geographic Explorer. A devoted preservationist, through his five-year photo project, “Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom,” he helped to secure six million dollars for its stabilization.
In this daring new production of Arthur Miller’s classic work All My Sons, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) star an analysis of the American dream. Catch this live recorded taping from London’s NT Live at Fairfield University’s Quick Center on Monday, May 18.
At Fairfield University’s Quick Center, attendees can witness the raw power and grace of the National Theatre’s top performers, as well as the virtuosic talents of The Met: Live, in HD from the comforts of our auditorium.
Last Friday night, filmmakers, industry professionals, family members and friends gathered at the Quick Center to support our future filmmakers. 🎬👏
14 films premiered, the majority of which were senior capstone films which have been in the making for a year and a half.
Schola members Melina Silvestro ‘27 and Cara Rommeney ‘26 both had films premiere at Cinefest. The future of film is bright!
On April 17th and 18th, Fairfield University’s Quick Center hosted Big River: In Concert, a concert production in partnership with Fairfield Theatre Program and the Fairfield University Glee Club.
Big River, an adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic piece of Americana “Huckleberry Finn,” perfectly encapsulated the University’s initiative America250: The Promise and Paradox. Examining the often contradictory impulses of the Antebellum South, the musical ends with hope for a shared future between people of all races and creeds.
Featuring student performers, as well as professional actors, the staging of Big River illustrates the Quick Center’s emphasis on student engagement.
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1) Tony Perry as Jim; Ethan Davis as Huck
2)Alexander Ferguson as The King; Ethan Davis as Huck; Justin Michael Duval as The Duke
3) Dominic Chill ’27; Patrick Adler ’27; Lucas Mortell ’28
With ample whimsy and playfulness, as well as a trusty unicycle, Janoah Bailin delighted audiences of all ages at Fairfield University’s Quick Center on Saturday, April 11.
During the performance, attendees of all ages were given the opportunity to juggle, with Janoah teaching the essentials: throwing, catching, and of course, messing up!
At Fairfield University’s Quick Center, there is programming for all ages and interests.
On Tuesday, March 31, National Geographic Explorer Stephen Wilkes, pictured here with Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Special Assistant for Arts and Culture to the President of Fairfield University, spoke to a crowded audience about his experiences photographing the beauty and splendor of our nation.
At the Philip I. Eliasoph Open VISIONS Forum, audience members experience scintillating conversations with the world’s top artists, creators and thinkers.
In discussing “Big River,” the first large-scale collaboration between Fairfield University’s Glee Club, Theatre Program, and Quick Center for the Arts, director Sean F. Edgecomb, PhD stated “I hope that Big River teaches us that American identity is not forged through comfort or consensus, but through moral struggle, proximity and choice.”
This musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features seasoned stage actors, as well as Fairfield University students who fill several roles and make up the chorus.
“Big River: In Concert” serves as the University’s tentpole student engagement experience for America250: The Promise and Paradox. Showing for only two nights, April 17 and 18, this is a program you surely won’t want to miss.
David Brooks is an author and political/cultural commentator who served as a New York Times opinion columnist for 23 years. On Sunday, March 29th, Brooks delivered the 2026 Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Lecture, at Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts, as the closing keynote of a month-long symposium on Viktor Frank’s Man’s Search for Meaning.
From grappling with present-day political challenges and issues of social class, to deeper questions regarding character and morality, Brooks is one of this nation’s most recognized public intellectuals.
At Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts, you can have a front row seat to conversations with the brightest minds of today.
In this “Spirit of the Fringe” award-winning performance from the Elgin Fringe Festival, star juggler and all-in-all entertainer Janoah Bailin offers attendees of all ages the opportunity to learn how to juggle. Janoah will be hosting two shows at Fairfield University’s Wien Experimental Theatre, located inside the Quick Center for the Arts, on Saturday, April 11.
Part workshop, part show, “meSSeS” will delight everyone watching.
For the 2026 School of Education and Human Development Diversity Lecture Series, educator, advocate, and ethologist Dr. Temple Grandin took to Fairfield University’s Quick Center stage to explain her personal perspective on how to better educate and work with autistic individuals.
Dr. Grandin took the time to chat with Karen Tang ’28 about what early intervention can look like, as well as what methods can be used to help older children on the autism spectrum.
Renowned for her work with animals, Dr. Grandin is an in-demand consultant to the livestock industry. She’s used her personal experiences with autism to not only help other individuals affected by the disorder, but through her adept visual thinking skills, has significantly supported the ethical treatment of animals.
At Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts, attendees have the opportunity to engage with and learn from the brightest minds across a wide variety of disciplines and specialties.
