Cultural Arts Events

To learn more about a specific event or sponsoring unit, please follow the event links below or use the navigation links to the left. For information about ticketed events, please visit the W&M Box Office.

October 14 - January 24 | Sadler Center
Works of the Studio Art faculty will be featured at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from through Oct. 25. This unique exhibition is a long-standing tradition at William & Mary, and a collaboration between the Art and Art History Department and the Muscarelle Museum of Art.

November 7 - January 17October 14 - January 24November 6, 5:00 PMNovember 17, 6:00 PMDecember 4, 5:00 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art/Lamberson Hall

November 19, 8:00 PM - November 22, 2:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall - Mainstage
Music by Alan Mencken; Book by Howard Ashman; Directed by Christopher Owens; Musical direction by Gary Green

November 21, 3:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall

November 21, 7:30 PM | Ewell Recital Hall
Senior cello recital featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Free and open to the public with a reception to follow.

November 22, 7:00 PM | Chesapeake B and C, Sadler Center

December 1, 7:00 PM | Kimball Theatre
Acclaimed director Michael Radford (director of "1984" and "Il Postino," among many others) will present his 2004 "Merchant of Venice" (starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons) and take questions about the film and his filmmaking. Kimball Theatre. FREE.

December 2, 3:30 PM | Adair Dance Studio
No admission charge

December 2, 7:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall

December 2, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
Tickets: $8/students $2

December 3, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
The Botetourt Chamber Singers, W&M Women's Chorus, and W&M Choir perform. Tickets: $9/students $3.

December 4, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Andrews Hall

December 4, 5:00 PM | Andrews Hall 101
Robin Kelsey is Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization and a Faculty Associate of the Center for the Environment. His book, Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890, was published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and his book on photography and chance is scheduled to appear, also from UC Press, in 2010. With Blake Stimson, he co-edited a book entitled The Meaning of Photography, published by the Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press in 2008.

December 4, 7:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall
W&M students present their original compositions.

December 4, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
Glazunov: Violin Concerto, with Pavel Ilyashov, violin; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e minor. Tickets: $8/$2 students/free for children under 12

December 5, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
The Botetourt Chamber Singers, W&M Women's Chorus, and W&M Choir perform. Tickets: $9/students $3.

December 6, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Colonial Williamsburg

December 8, 7:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall
Under the direction of Peter DuBeau

December 11, 8:00 PM - December 12, 10:30 PM | Bruton Parish Church
The second of the two part Handel festival, December 11-12, features a candlelight performance of the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah in Bruton Parish Church. An orchestra, soloists, and the choir of Bruton Parish Church will be under the musical direction of Rodney Eichenberger. Separate $15 ticket; $10 if purchased with festival registration.

January 15, 5:00 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art/Lamberson Hall
Director’s Fellow, Christina Carroll, will talk on contemporary issues in art copyright and how they relate to exhibition formation, using the Warhol exhibition as an example.

February 7, 7:00 PM | Kimball Theatre
Tickets: $15

February 18, 6:00 PM - February 21, 11:00 PM | Kimball Theatre and Various Campus Sites
Save the dates for this year's Global Film and Music Festival, February 18-21, 2010. There will be many exciting guests and special events being announced shortly! All Festival events are FREE and open to the public.

February 18, 8:00 PM - February 20, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall - Studio Theatre
Directed by Jason Blackwell

February 25, 8:00 PM - February 28, 2:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall - Mainstage
By Sarah Ruhl; Directed by Elizabeth Wiley

February 28, 8:00 PM | Catholic Campus Ministries, Chapel

March 2, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
Program featuring Elgar's Cello Concerto with Professor Neal Cary, cello. Tickets: $8/$2 students/free for children under 12.

March 21, 8:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall
"The members of Flexible Music are undaunted by the repertoire's formidable demands. The results are varied and vital, a feast of intimate musical possibilities." (Gramophone, August 2009). With an instrumentation that blurs the line between jazz, rock, and classical music, Flexible Music is an ensemble of saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion.

March 25, 8:00 PM - March 27, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall
Choreography by members of Orchesis dance company; $10 General Admission; $5 Students

April 9, 8:00 PM | Wren Chapel
Ensemble under the direction of Ruth Griffioen. Admission Free.

April 10, 8:00 PM | Williamsburg Presbyterian Church
Halcyon Trio Oregon-soprano Jackie Van Paepeghem, trumpeter Joan Haaland Paddock and pianist/organist Debra Huddleston-is a versatile chamber music ensemble of engaging performers. Unusual in its instrumentation, the Trio brings to life sacred and secular music from the Eleventh through the Twenty-first century.

April 10, 8:00 PM | Bruton Parish Church

April 11, 3:00 PM | Wren Great Hall

April 15, 8:00 PM - April 17, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall - Studio Theatre
Directed by Keegan Cassady

April 16, 8:00 PM - April 17, 8:00 PM | Adair Dance Studio
Choreography by students completing requirements for a Dance minor or Interdisciplinary Studies major; No admission charge

April 22, 8:00 PM - April 25, 2:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall - Mainstage
by Moliere; Directed by Richard Palmer

April 25, 8:00 PM | Ewell Recital Hall
Irfan Muhammad Khan is a master performer of the sarod, one of the most celebrated stringed instruments of North India. Mr. Khan descends from a long line of renowned sarod players who have passed their art--with its treasured oral traditions--from father to son in an unbroken chain stretching back to the early 19th century.

April 28, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
Program will feature the winner of 2010 Concerto Competition. Tickets: $8/$2 students/free for children under 12.

April 29, 4:30 PM | Adair Dance Studio
No admission charge

April 29, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
The Botetourt Chamber Singers, W&M Women's Chorus, and W&M Choir perform. Tickets: $9/students $3.

May 1, 8:00 PM | Phi Beta Kappa Hall
The Botetourt Chamber Singers, W&M Women's Chorus, and W&M Choir perform. Tickets: $9/students $3.