
Adams Memorial Theatre, ’62 Center
Past Events
February 2015

Emilie La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight
The play has been described as “fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy”(The San Francisco Chronicle), “an evening of humor and heartbreak” (BroadwayWorld), and as an “ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity” (LA/OC Examiner). Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man’s mistress. She was…
Find out more »November 2018

"When the Sidewalk Ends?" featuring Cliff Notez and GMT
A hip hop performance featuring Cliff Notez, with opening act GMT of Williams College.
November 30th at 7:00 pm | Memorial Theater, '62 Center
Parental Advisory: Explicit Content.
Free admission. Open to the public.
March 2019

Maggie Nelson to deliver the Art of the Essay lecture 3/7 6 pm
- Categories:
- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson will deliver this year's Art of the Essay Lecture, entitled "Forms of Prose," on March 7 at 6 pm in Adams Memorial Theater. This lecture is open to the campus and the public.
Find out more »May 2019

Solo Sunday
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- Arts at Williams
Solo Sunday is the culmination of a semester’s worth of some amazing tutorial work. Students in the Solo Performance tutorial taught by Professor Omar Sangare explored the process of building a one-person performance. Each student selected a historical or contemporary public figure and created a solo piece inspired by that individual. Students embarked on a challenging artistic journey: first as…
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Fauxnique: The F-Word
The F Word uses drag and feminism as lenses for each other to take her audience on a journey through the wryly funny to the surprisingly poignant. Through personal anecdote, song, dance, drag lip-synch and simple stage magic Fauxnique celebrates and pokes fun at feminism. She engages the comic mode and liberatory space of the drag/cabaret form to dig into…
Find out more »March 2020

Williams Theatre Department and Sondheim@90@Williams present "Our Time, a Collage of Records from Williams"
One event on Sat, March 7th, 2020 at 7:30pm
One event on Thu, March 12th, 2020 at 7:30pm
One event on Fri, March 13th, 2020 at 7:30pm
One event on Sat, March 14th, 2020 at 7:30pm
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- $3
Performances of "Our Time" scheduled for this weekend have been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you purchased tickets online, you will automatically receive a refund. If you paid by cash at the '62 Center Box Office, please stop by to collect your refund. We are open Monday-Friday 11:30am-4:30pm. "Our Time, a Collage of Records from Williams” documenting Williams…
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Cap & Bells and Sondheim@90@Williams present "A Little Night Music"
One event on Sat, March 7th, 2020 at 3:00pm
One event on Sun, March 8th, 2020 at 3:00pm
One event on Sun, March 8th, 2020 at 7:30pm
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- $3
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Directed by Emily Bannigan ’20 Music Directed by Jake Eisner '21 Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince In celebration of the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim ’50, the Department of Theatre, Department of Music, and Cap…
Find out more »October 2021

Honors Project: Буря Devised by Nadiya Atkinson '22
An event every day that begins at 7:00pm, repeating until Sat, October 30th, 2021
One event on Fri, October 29th, 2021 at 8:00pm
One event on Sat, October 30th, 2021 at 8:00pm
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- free
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Tempest, Буря is a devised exploration of Russian immigrant memory, part-installation, part-movement, and part-everything-in-between. With a team of three actors, three designers, and three spaces, follow Miranda as she crosses from old to new land under her mother's wings: what does intergenerational memory mean when only recalling whispers of the past? Is a person cleansed or reinvented…
Find out more »May 2022

"Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea" by Julia Izumi
One event on Fri, May 6th, 2022 at 7:30pm
One event on Sat, May 7th, 2022 at 7:30pm
One event on Sun, May 8th, 2022 at 5:00pm
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea by Julia Izumi and directed by Kym Moore, is, in part, a play about the magic of storytelling. Why do we need stories? And what do we gain from telling them and listening to them? Actors in this piece must bring their wildest imaginations to the process and be ready to "play." It is…
Find out more »September 2022

Theatre Dept. Meet and Greet: THEATER: A LOVE STORY by Caridad Svich
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- Arts at Williams
Theatre: A Love Story by Caridad Svich Directed by Emmanuelle Delpech Theatre: A Love Story is an exuberant live performance that invites the audience and the actors to reflect, question, and embrace the beauty and horror of our world. What was once theater’s impact on our humanity? What have we done to destroy the simple ways of telling stories? Why…
Find out more »October 2022

Wisdom School: A workshop/experience
- Categories:
- General Announcements
Please join the WGSS '60s Scholar, Nia O. Witherspoon, PhD (she/they), for "Wisdom School: A workshop experience." Participants are invited into the Priestess of Twerk: A Black Femme Temple's ritual studio-process where immersing in traditional healing philosophies and modalities is central to the creative process. Guided by Black + Brown feminist sacred texts and African wisdom traditions, Wisdom School deepens our ability to nourish…
Find out more »November 2022

Theatre performance: THEATRE: A LOVE STORY, by Caridad Svich
One event on Fri, November 18th, 2022 at 7:30pm
One event on Sat, November 19th, 2022 at 7:30pm
One event on Sun, November 20th, 2022 at 5:00pm
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
Theatre: A Love Story by Caridad Svich Directed by Emmanuelle Delpech Theatre: A Love Story is an exuberant live performance that invites the audience and the actors to reflect, question and embrace the beauty and horror of our world. What was once theater’s impact on our humanity? What have we done to destroy the simple ways of telling stories? Why…
Find out more »February 2024

Queering Perspectives Festival: THIS SHOW IS AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
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- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- $3 – $10
Boston-based Alex Davis' This Show is available for Touring, presents a comedic solo (with twelve backup dancers) that features the collaborative contributions of students and community members. Davis hopes that the audience “likes it” or that he “at least doesn’t disappoint anyone.” Davis’ performances illuminate the innate theatricality of everyday life, drawing from pop culture, memes, reality television, improvisational techniques,…
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Queering Perspectives Festival: THIS SHOW IS AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- $3 – $10
Boston-based Alex Davis' This Show is available for Touring, presents a comedic solo (with twelve backup dancers) that features the collaborative contributions of students and community members. Davis hopes that the audience “likes it” or that he “at least doesn’t disappoint anyone.” Davis’ performances illuminate the innate theatricality of everyday life, drawing from pop culture, memes, reality television, improvisational techniques,…
Find out more »April 2024

Open Rehearsal: Michelle "Micha" J. Rodriguez '12, PRESENCIA
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- Arts at Williams
In advance of the NYC premiere at The Bushwick Starr, please join us for a behind-the-scenes view into the creation of a new musical. Michelle "Micha" J. Rodriguez '12 and her team will be on campus for a two-week creative residency. After the Open Rehearsal, Micha and her team will be looking for feedback as they prepare for the performances…
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New Musical Theatre: Michelle J. Rodriguez '12 is PRESENCIA
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- Arts at Williams
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Michelle "Micha" J. Rodriguez '12 Directed by Mei Ann Teo What would you do if you were gifted a succulent plant that bursts into flames, speaks to you, and calls you to be a leader? Presencia is a devastatingly funny millennial musical that reinvents the Moses story for women of color thrust into positions of…
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New Musical Theatre: Michelle J. Rodriguez '12 is PRESENCIA
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- Arts at Williams
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Michelle "Micha" J. Rodriguez '12 Directed by Mei Ann Teo What would you do if you were gifted a succulent plant that bursts into flames, speaks to you, and calls you to be a leader? Presencia is a devastatingly funny millennial musical that reinvents the Moses story for women of color thrust into positions of…
Find out more »September 2024

Gaudino Creative Residencies: Truth Future Bachman Workshop "The song makes a space, and the songwriter is its architect"
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- Arts at Williams
The song makes a space, and the songwriter is its architect. But how does an artist’s inner landscape transform into music and lyrics? And how can these sounds be used to create story, meaning, and vision that lives beyond the writer and in the world? In SONGSPACE, artists will work with composer, vocalist, and writer Truth Future Bachman to build…
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Gaudino Creative Residencies: Truth Future Bachman Works-in-Progress Showing "SECOND SIGHT"
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- Arts at Williams
Brooklyn-based composer, playwright, and vocalist Truth Future Bachman deftly interweaves three of the most compelling cultural threads of our moment: musical theater, gender fluidity, and superhero/sci-fi parables. Join Truth, and collaborators Z Infante and Steven Tran as they workshop pieces from the third act in a series of queer and trans superhero musicals called Shapeshifters (following Luna & the Starbodies…
Find out more »October 2024

Gaudino Creative Residencies: Maya Krishna Rao "You Really Want to Know My Story" Performance
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- Arts at Williams
Here are two searing stories of prisoners even today on death row in India. The first is the account of a low caste bus driver, and the second, a Muslim migrant worker. These stories sharply remind us of how skewed the criminal justice system is, how it dehumanises people who lack resources and education. Based on true stores, this performance…
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Dance Dept: H.T. Chen & Dancers "Opening the Gate"
H.T. Chen & Dancers return to the Berkshires. The NYC-based company is noted for its contemporary works addressing Chinese American history and culture. This residency will be part of the company's much celebrate work, Opening The Gate. The work is choreographed by H.T. Chen and using a commissioned score by Bradley Kaus with live drumming by dancers and musicians, the…
Find out more »May 2025

StuCo performance: Spring Showcase
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- Arts at Williams
The Student Choreographers' Coalition (StuCo) is presenting their spring showcase May 16 & 17th, 8 p.m. in the Adams Memorial Theatre (AMT) of the ’62 Center. Come by to see 15 student-choreographed pieces ranging in dance style and experience level. Free tickets for the showcase will be on sale soon through the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. For more…
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StuCo performance: Spring Showcase
- Categories:
- Arts at Williams
The Student Choreographers' Coalition (StuCo) is presenting their spring showcase May 16 & 17th, 8 p.m. in the Adams Memorial Theatre (AMT) of the ’62 Center. Come by to see 15 student-choreographed pieces ranging in dance style and experience level. Free tickets for the showcase will be on sale soon through the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. For more…
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