![Students perform in the Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Opera Dido and Aeneas” in Wilson Concert Hall. Photo courtesy of the W&L Facebook page](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/434323044_798291625677108_3131671531400756828_n-1200x800.jpeg)
Students make their opera debuts with Henry Purcell’s Greek tragedy ‘Dido and Aeneas’
This year’s Bentley Musical portrays the love affair between the titular characters adapted from Virgil’s “Aeneid”
![Students met “Hamilton” and “In the Heights” creator Lin-Manuel
Miranda while in New York City.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5-Students-got-signatures-and-photos-with-Miranda-at-The-Drama-Book-Shop-on-39th-Street-e1710902755910-1200x900.jpeg)
W&L theater department takes on Broadway
A group of W&L students saw six plays and met playwrights in a fully-funded trip to New York City
![A group of young women, all wearing different 1960s outfits, pose onstage and smile. One young man wearing black sits on the ground and smiles as well.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/beehive-from-WL-Facebook-page-900x600.jpeg)
“Beehive” centers female empowerment, social movements, music of the ’60s
Director Jenefer Davies called the show "a love letter to girl power"
![The main characters and Priscilla, their bus. Photo by Claudia Schwab.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/priscilla-900x675.jpg)
‘Priscilla’ encapsulates Pride Week’s theme of love and inclusion
Washington and Lee’s annual musical coincided with Pride Week, reinforcing and enhancing its ideas