62 Center for Theatre and Dance

Name: 62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Address: 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA, 01267, US
Telephone: +14135972425
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In an effort to centralize our messaging, we are transitioning to a NEW page. We deeply value and appreciate the community support for our events.

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This page will be deleted on February 12th, 2024. COVID-19, with the Delta variant, remains an urgent health crisis for us all. Out of a preponderance of caution for our performing artists, staff, and audiences, we have made the decision to keep the ’62 Center’s performances closed to the general public. Onl

y masked campus community members with a valid Williams ID (yellow and purple) will be allowed to enter the building. The moment this health crisis abates, we will be reopening the ’62 Center to all community members. Please stay safe. The Faculty and Staff of the '62 Center recognize the original keepers of the lands on which Williams College resides; this land is territory of the Mohican Peoples, also known as the People of the Waters That are Never Still, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay our respects to the Mohican Peoples, past and present, as well as future generations.

04/15/2026

Purple Valley Plays is bringing you world-premiere productions written, directed, designed, and performed entirely by Williams students. Ephs have been working together with faculty, staff, and local professionals to transform Adams Memorial Theater into a true theatrical powerhouse. Come support some of our most creative Ephs!

🎟️ Tickets open to the general public Monday, April 20 at 9 AM — 🔗 in bio!

💜 Spotlight on Purple Billing ✨

Thu, Apr 23 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
Sat, Apr 25 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre

🎬 Street Shoes by Jack Allen Greenfield '27
Dir. Diliara Sadykova '26
🎭 Patrice Moriarty '28, Emma Hennessy '26

🎬 Dick Salesman by Izzy Weitzman '27
Dir. Hannah Pressman '28
🎭 Josh Cohen '29, Emery Dunbar '26, Sabrina Ferrell '28

🎬 I Got Next by Abdiel Perde '28
Dir. Samer Al-Saber
🎭 Lamarth Nottage '29, Jacob Casper '26, Kiiru Kimani '29, Christopher Ramirez '29, Kiiru Kimani ’29

🎬 LIFELINE! by Michelle Yang '28
Dir. Patrice Moriarty '28
🎭 Hollis Burgess '29, Yuval Klein '29, Kaiden Roque '28, Vanya Funez '26, Aunonto Rahman '28

🎬 Got My Back by Ethan Young '28
Dir. Ethan Young '28
🎭 Jack Allen Greenfield '28, Hannah Pressman '28, Francesca Castellanos '26

🎬 Paradise Island by Stella Rothfeld '26
Dir. Erica Terpening-Romeo
🎭 Sophie Taylor '27, Logan Spaleta '28, Lauren Weiskopf '29, Patrice Moriarty '28, Lyla Forest Butler '28, Lucy Shadel '29, Owen Carso '29, Ahmad Irfan ’28, Aidan McMahon ’26

04/11/2026

✨ It's back and BETTER THAN EVER! The Purple Valley Plays Festival returns for its fourth iteration, bringing you an incredible lineup of original world-premiere productions — written, directed, designed, and performed entirely by Williams students. Supported by a community of faculty, staff, local professionals, and fellow Ephs working together to transform Adams Memorial Theatre into a true theatrical powerhouse. This is the Williams community at its creative best!

🎟️ Tickets open to the general public Monday, April 20 at 9 AM, grab yours at the 🔗 in bio!

💜 Purple Billing
Thu | Apr 23 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
Sat | Apr 25 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre

🎬 Street Shoes by Jack Allen Greenfield '27
🎬 LIFELINE! by Michelle Yang '28
🎬 I Got Next by Abdiel Perde '28
🎬 Dick Salesman by Izzy Weitzman '27
🎬 Got My Back by Ethan Young '28
🎬 Paradise Island by Stella Rothfeld '26

🥇 Gold Billing
Fri | Apr 24 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
Sat | Apr 25 | 2 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre

🎬 Into Dust by Owen Cappelletti '28
🎬 Felt Body by Jackie Zhang '27
🎬 Again, Again, Again by Yejun Park '28
🎬 The Roommate by Emma Hennessy '26
🎬 Power in the Hands of Monkeys by Dash Alschuler-Pierce '28
🎬 Postcards by Michael Pasko '26
🎬 The Beloved by Lyla Forest Butler '28

04/10/2026

TONIGHT & TOMORROW | Apr 10 & 11 | 8 PM | MainStage

Weaving together live narration, masked performance, and choral dance, SECONDS, performed by THE MILLION UNDERSCORES (), is a theatrical exploration of the suspension of disbelief. The performance transforms the theater into an arena, delving into the different and complex ways that we see each other. Functioning also as a playful study of staged death through the lenses of comedy, horror, ritual, and dance, the audience is invited to join in a contemplation of the delicate line between life and death, connecting us with the ancient roots of theater as a spiritual act of collective unbecoming.

🎟️ Last chance to get tickets — 🔗 in bio.

04/05/2026

Sat, Apr 11 | 2 PM | Dance Studio

Join artists David Lane () and Molly Hess () for a hands-on puppet workshop inspired by the Berkshires Satellite Reef, a breathtaking crocheted coral undersea world teeming with sea turtles, fish, rays, sharks, and more.

Together, we'll breathe life into these crocheted creatures and explore how they swim, scuttle, and glide through their imaginary ocean. 🐢🦈🐟

At the end of the workshop, we'll share how you can get involved in the exhibit opening the following week as a reef puppeteer! 🪸✨

Learn more at the 🔗 in bio.

04/04/2026

Fri & Sat, Apr 10 & 11 | 8 PM | MainStage

What happens in the space between life and death? 💀

Seconds is comedy. Horror. Ritual. Dance. The Million Underscores () weaves masked performance, live narration, and choral movement into a night of theater that reaches back to its oldest, most spiritual roots.

Featuring texts from Tennessee Williams, Gertrude Stein, Can Xue, and more — this is a contemplation of how we see each other, carry each other, and let each other go. ✨

🎟️ Tickets at 🔗 in bio.

03/25/2026

Fri & Sat, Apr 10 & 11 | 8 PM | MainStage

Seconds explores the suspension of disbelief and a playful study of staged death through the lenses of comedy, horror, ritual, and dance. Weaving live narration, masked performance, choral dance, Seconds transforms the theater into an arena to look at how we see each other, how we imprint ourselves incent one another, and how we carry each other in our memories. Join The Million Underscores () in a contemplation of the delicate line between life and death, connecting us with the ancient roots of theater as a spiritual act of collective unbecoming.

🎟️ Tickets at 🔗 in bio.

03/17/2026

What happens when art, science, and community come together?

Join artist Christine Wertheim for an artist talk on the Berkshire Satellite Reef, part of the global Crochet Coral Reef project exploring marine ecologies, climate change, and collective creativity.

📅 Wed, Mar 18
⏰ 6–8 PM
📍MainStage, ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance

Free and open to the public.

03/14/2026

Wed, Mar 18 | 6 PM | LOCATION CHANGE: MainStage

In collaboration with WCMA (), join artist, writer, and poet Christine Wertheim at the ‘62 Center for Theater and Dance for an engaging talk on the Berkshires Satellite Reef, opening in the ‘62 Center this April. Part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project she co-founded with Margaret Wertheim, she will trace the origins of the Reef as a global, community-driven artwork that uses crochet to envision marine ecologies, climate change, and collective care. The Berkshires iteration brings together local makers, environmental concerns, and feminist craft traditions, and highlights the ways participatory art can both honor scientific knowledge and celebrate creative collaboration. Wertheim invites audiences to consider how acts of making can foster connection, awareness, and an imaginative response to our changing planet.

🪸 Learn more about the project in the 🔗 in bio.

03/09/2026

Rehearsal glimpses from Hamletmachine #2026.

Experience Jane Su ’26’s senior thesis project this week in the Directing Studio at the ’62 Center!

Showtimes:
Fri, Mar 13 | 7:00 PM
Sat, Mar 14 | 4:00 PM
Sat, Mar 14 | 7:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets are out now! – 🔗 in bio.

📸 Danny Hinh ‘28 ()

03/06/2026

Fri & Sat, Mar 13 & 14 | 7 PM | Directing Studio
Sat, Mar 14 | 4 PM | Directing Studio

In a 2026 version of Heiner Müller’s timeless Hamletmachine, Jane Su ‘26’s honors project Hamletmachine #2026 invites you to explore a history of media, and subsequently, a history of us as human beings. Part theater and part installation, you’ll be roped into a pre-historic site of relics alongside four archaeologists and the ghost of Ophelia, examining a machine that propels the group forward yet traps them in a revolving history.

🎟️ Tickets will be released to the general public online Monday, March 9th, at 9AM – 🔗 in bio.

Address

1000 Main Street
Williamstown, MA
01267

Telephone

+14135972425

Website

http://62center.williams.edu/, http://62center.blogspot.com/

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