The Williams Center for the Arts is the focal point for cultural programming at Lafayette. The Williams Center gallery presents art exhibitions in a wide variety of media and genres each year. Student theater and musical performances are presented in the black box theater or on the main stage through the College Theater Program.
Auditions are open to all students and other members of the community.
Other recent productions include Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth , Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and Shakespeare's Othello . Student ensembles perform throughout the year both in concert and at College functions. Sandra Starck gave a workshop on printmaking. Other recent visiting artists have included master African musicians of WOFA from Guinea, Aquila Theatre of London, and Shafaatullah Khan. Poetry flourishes at Lafayette.