Photo of a band playing on the steps of Eddy Theatre, and students seated on chairs in the quad

Eddy Theatre

The Edward Danforth Eddy Theatre, named after a former acclaimed president of Chatham, is a tiered auditorium with a large stage and full audio-visual equipment that hosts 285 seats. It’s often used for lectures, presentations, and theatre productions.

Chatham offers many opportunities for students to perform on campus, including the Drama Club, Vagina Monologues, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and musicals like Chicago.

Eddy has also hosted speakers such as Alice Walker, acclaimed author of The Color Purple, master illusionist, Elliot Zimet, and former congresswoman Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky.

Drama club at Chatham University puts on play about gun violence in the United States

“It makes it more real than just reading it and watching news coverage. You become less desensitized to it, to be able to connect with what’s happening in front of you,” Lauryn Laidacker ‘22 said.

Click here to read the Communiqué article.

Photo of several Chatham University students on stage at Eddy Theatre at the end of a performance in Fall 2019
Photo of the crowded lobby of Eddy Theatre
Photo of clapping audience members in Eddy Theatre
Photo of a young woman singing in the talent show at Eddy Theatre
Photo of two Black women, one in hijab, speaking on stage at Eddy Theatre for the 2019 Gender Symposium
Photo of two students performing on stage at Eddy Theatre, showing an enraptured audience

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