Wheaton College Massachusetts

New Plays Festival 2026
2026-02-22 17:00 (America/New_York) | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Eleven longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our annual festival. The festival runs over two days with two seatings each day, each seating showcases a different set of plays.
Free or pay-what-you-can tickets are available through the Watson Box Office.

Readings by the Writer: Kate Colby
2026-03-25 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Kate Colby reads from her work including Paradoxx, her new collection of essays. “In Paradoxx, Colby applies her humor and exacting intelligence to teasing out tangles in relationships between memory, signification, and human perception. A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in the author’s life, this tightly-wound lyric essay is also a memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st.” (Essay Press) Colby was a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts, where she now serves on the advisory board. She grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she teaches at UPenn.

Object Lessons: Matisse and Art Education
2026-03-25 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
The Wheaton College Friends of Art proudly present the 18th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture in Art History featuring Camran Mani. Throughout his artistic career, Henri Matisse tried to be the teacher he had never had as an unhappy art student in late 19th-century Paris. In his talk, Camran Mani will explore the evolution of ideas about how to educate young people for careers in art by looking at a few of Matisse’s experimental teaching efforts from 1908-1948, including the art academy he briefly operated in Paris, his mural for an educational foundation in Pennsylvania, and the book Jazz.

2026 Creative Writing Senior Reading
2026-04-14 17:00, 2026-04-21 17:00 | Balfour-Hood – New Yellow Parlor
Seniors graduating with a major in Creative Writing and Literature read from their original work. Students will present readings over two evenings April 14 & 21, 2026.

Wheaton College Dance Company
2026-04-16 19:30, 2026-04-17 19:30, 2026-04-18 14:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis.
Pay-what-you-can tickets may be purchased via the Watson Box Office.
