The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance is a state-of-the-art performance venue providing student actors, dancers, designers, and ensembles a place to creatively collaborate with each other, with faculty, and with renowned dance and theatre companies. The building opened in 2005 and is home to dance studios, classrooms, costume shop facilities, and three theaters (two prosceniums, one black box).
The ’62 Center stages more than 70 productions each year, primarily by academic departments and students. All auditions for dance and theatre groups are open. Williams students need not major in theatre, or have any extensive experience to participate.
The CenterSeries regularly brings performances by the New York City Ballet and Ailey II, and the Theatre Department stages such productions as Cabaret and Eisa Davis’. Each summer, the ’62 Center is home to the Summer Theatre Lab and the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival.