Performing Arts



Performing Arts at Mount Holyoke


Welcome to Dance, Music, and Film Media Theater at Mount Holyoke College -- home to cutting-edge theatre artists, award-winning choreographers and dancers, and renowned musicians. Our performances are relevant, vibrant, inclusive, and celebrate the many facets of life at the college. Join us this year for a slate of exciting events featuring work by students, faculty, and guest artists.

Orchestra: Tr-ans-for-mat-ions

Fri, Feb 27, 2026 8pm to 10pm

The Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra, welcomes Lucas Bouk, for a program of transformations, from Peteris' Vasks haunting Symphony No.1 focusing on global change, concluding with Bedrich Smetana’s...

Abbey Memorial Chapel, Main Chapel

Choral Concert: The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me

Sun, Mar 1, 2026 1:30pm to 3pm

The Mount Holyoke College Choral Forces present their winter concert, featuring music by Arianne Abela, Claude Debussy, Elaine Hagenberg, Joan Szymko, Eric Whitacre, and Paul Williams & Kenneth...

Abbey Memorial Chapel, Main Chapel

Melancholy Play

Thu, Mar 5, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Film Media Theater proudly presents “Melancholy Play” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Emma Platt ‘25. Tilly is a bank teller with a melancholy so...

Rooke Theatre

$10 General Admission | $5 Students and Senior Citizens

Melancholy Play

Fri, Mar 6, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Film Media Theater proudly presents “Melancholy Play” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Emma Platt ‘25. Tilly is a bank teller with a melancholy so...

Rooke Theatre

$10 General Admission | $5 Students and Senior Citizens

JAZZ: The Big Broadcast!

Sat, Mar 7, 2026 2pm to 3:30pm

(Snow Date if needed: Sunday, March 8) Join the Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College in their annual trip back through time to the 1940's! The Big Band, Chamber and Vocal Jazz Ensembles present...

Mary Woolley Hall, Chapin Auditorium

JAZZ: The Big Broadcast!

Sat, Mar 7, 2026 7:30pm to 9pm

(Snow Date if needed: Sunday, March 8) Join the Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College in their annual trip back through time to the 1940's! The Big Band, Chamber and Vocal Jazz Ensembles present...

Mary Woolley Hall, Chapin Auditorium

Melancholy Play

Sat, Mar 7, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Film Media Theater proudly presents “Melancholy Play” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Emma Platt ‘25. Tilly is a bank teller with a melancholy so...

Rooke Theatre

$10 General Admission | $5 Students and Senior Citizens

Melancholy Play

Sun, Mar 8, 2026 2:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Film Media Theater proudly presents “Melancholy Play” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Emma Platt ‘25. Tilly is a bank teller with a melancholy so...

Rooke Theatre

$10 General Admission | $5 Students and Senior Citizens

Capstone Dance Concert

Fri, Mar 27, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance proudly presents the annual Capstone Dance Concert, a culmination of a year-long process of research and choreographic inquiry featuring work created...

Kendall Sports & Dance Complex, Studio Theater

$10 General Admission | $5 Student & Seniors

Capstone Dance Concert

Sat, Mar 28, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance proudly presents the annual Capstone Dance Concert, a culmination of a year-long process of research and choreographic inquiry featuring work created...

Kendall Sports & Dance Complex, Studio Theater

$10 General Admission | $5 Student & Seniors

Galeet Dardashti and Divahn

Sun, Apr 12, 2026 5pm to 7pm

Galeet Dardashti and Divahn The All-female Powerhouse Sephardi / Mizrahi Jewish Ensemble Free and open to the public. This event is cosponsored with Jewish Studies, the Department of Music, and...

Pratt Music Hall, McCulloch Auditorium

Student Dance Concert

Fri, Apr 24, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance proudly presents the annual Student Dance Concert. This student-led concert is an expression of a semester of embodied inquiry in the Composition II...

Kendall Sports & Dance Complex, Studio Theater

$5 General Admission | $0 Student & Seniors

Orchestra: Symphonic Possibilities

Fri, Apr 24, 2026 8pm to 10pm

After a whole season of works celebrating the richness of orchestral possibilities, the MHSO wraps up the year with Rachmaninoff’s ravishing second symphony. We will celebrate the winner of the...

Abbey Memorial Chapel, Main Chapel

Student Dance Concert

Sat, Apr 25, 2026 7:30pm

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance proudly presents the annual Student Dance Concert. This student-led concert is an expression of a semester of embodied inquiry in the Composition II...

Kendall Sports & Dance Complex, Studio Theater

$5 General Admission | $0 Student & Seniors

Klezmer Kapelye Konsert n’ Tants!

Wed, Apr 29, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Get that Spring in your feet and enjoy Eastern European folk music, dancing and listening to the ever-popular and entertaining Klezmer Kapelye! Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian tunes! Fiddles,...

Pratt Music Hall, McCulloch Auditorium

Composition Recital

Sat, May 2, 2026 1pm to 3pm

A concert of musical works by students from the Intermediate and Advanced composition courses this semester, including electronic works and performances by Mount Holyoke students.

Pratt Music Hall, McCulloch Auditorium

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