Expose your students to live theatre experiences that enhance their learning, ignite creativity, and offer a new view of the world around them.
Study Guides
Study guides are provided to all teachers to augment the learning experience with our performances.
Residencies Available
Want to partner with the Quick Center for an artistic and educational residency at your school? Call Lori Jones at 203-254-4242 for more information.
Friday, September 26, 2025 | 11 a.m.
Ticket: $10 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 60 minutes
Grades: 3rd – 12th
Relaxed performance: This performance has a relaxed ambience where theatre ‘rules’ are relaxed to encourage people of all abilities to enjoy the experience. For more information, please contact the Quick Center Box Office at 203-254-4010.
Noli Timere is a soaring aerial dance performance, born from a five-year collaboration between Guggenheim Fellowship Award-winning director and choreographer Rebecca Lazier and world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman. It features eight multidisciplinary performers dancing up to 25 feet in the air within a voluminous, custom-designed Echelman net sculpture, and is choreographed to an original score by French Canadian composer Jorane, who performs live on stage.
This fusion of contemporary dance, avant-garde circus, and sculpture explores the delicate interconnectedness and fragility of our world, offering a profound commentary on navigating our unstable ecosystem through art and advanced engineering.
Monday, October 6, 2025 | 11 a.m.
Tickets: $10 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 45 minutes
Grades: pre-K – 12th
Inspired by two books by acclaimed children’s author Mo Willems, the ingenious Emmy Award-winning company Manual Cinema (known for mixing low-fi props with interactive technology) has created Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster.
Poor Leonardo. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just… isn’t. Manual Cinema uses puppets, props, and songs to bring Willems’ books about courage and friendship to life.
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 11 a.m.
Tickets: $5 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 60 minutes
Grades: 5th – 12th
Creating synergy between the worlds of chamber music and American history, the Silkroad Ensemble transports audiences to the period of the Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. In this space, the musicians seek to right past wrongs by highlighting the untold stories of the immigrants who made the Transcontinental Railroad possible—African Americans, Irish, Chinese, and other cultures.
In this open rehearsal experience, students will have the opportunity to hear pieces from the program, American Railroad, followed by a few moments to ask questions and learn more about this unique and acclaimed ensemble of international artists.
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Monday, February 2, 2026 | 11 a.m.
Tickets: $10 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 60 minutes
Grades: K – 12th
While wadaiko (taiko for short) drums have been a part of Japanese culture for centuries, Ikuo Fujitaka, the founder and artistic director of Drum Tao (established in 1993), traces a bit of his inspiration to North America. After seeing Cirque du Soleil use a Japanese wadaiko drum in their show Mystère, he was inspired to build a production that would showcase traditional taiko drumming of Japan in a modern context.
Known for their virtuosity and power, Drum Tao creates a mesmerizing spectacle with dazzling staging, costumes, and lighting. You will be amazed by the thunderous rhythms, breathtaking choreography, and cutting-edge stagecraft. Based in Oita, Japan, Drum Tao performances have touched more than nine million spectators around the world.
Monday, February 23, 2026 | 11 a.m.
Tickets: $10 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 60 minutes
Grades: K – 12th
Named in tribute to Harriet Tubman (whose childhood nickname was Minty), Minty Fresh Circus brings to the stage a raucous, playful reimagination of circus and dance that infuses African performance rituals, ceremonies, and cultural traditions.
Conceived by Monique Martin, Minty Fresh Circus is a U.S.-based circus show performed by an all-Black cast, with a majority-Black creative team, celebrating the healing power of Black music and movement. The acrobats perform a range of movement sourced from the African Diaspora, including percussive dance, ritual movement, Lindy, hip-hop, poppin’ and lockin’, jukin’, hand games, and physical theater.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 | 11 a.m.
Tickets: $10 | One complimentary ticket with every 10 purchased!
Run-time: 60 minutes
Grades: 4th – 12th
The JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS touring initiative provides an affordable opportunity to present great jazz programming, featuring up-and-coming musicians who have been identified as rising stars by JALC. The initiative also allows for expansion of the mission of JALC “to entertain, enrich, and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy.”
What is Jazz? offers students an introduction into this great American art form and its rich history. From its beginnings in African-American communities in the turn of the 20th century of New Orleans to a mingling of musical expressions of all the people who came to the United States by choice or by force—people from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean—as well as those already living in America. Jazz musicians brought their traditions together (with special emphasis on the blues, church spirituals, and ragtime) in a new, universal language. Through the blues, jazz musicians showed that the sorrows common to us all could be overcome with optimism and humor.