Kimball Theatre

We saw "Grand Medley", a live show purporting to be a troupe of touring players in early US times.  I thought it was a hoot!  Currently playing every Monday night at 7:30.  We came in about 7:10 and a couple of actors were already warming up the audience disparaging the show. Had we known, we would have come earlier.  The audience is encouraged to speak up with "Huzza!" and "Encore!", and they loved it.   Broad humor; comic fencing, juggling included.  Family friendly.

We intend to catch a free hour with "Patrick Henry" speaking at the theater tomorrow afternoon.  Don't know if he will be pre-revolution "Give me Liberty or give me death!", or later anti-Federalist, or old man looking back.

Great, great theatre, so much better than what you might expect in a location that is the touristy ground-zero of colonial Williamsburg. The Kimball offers very important and interesting screenings of documentaries, classic cinema, foreign films, and indie pictures, which appeal to students and faculty at W&M as well as locals in the know or random Yelpers looking for their culture fix.

Case in point: the last film I saw there was the amazing and powerful documentary about Darfur, "The Devil Came on Horseback" (2007), one that uses 1000s of digital pics by ex-soldier and UN human rights advocate, Brian Steidle, to show the ground-level operations and effects of genocide and village cleansing. A W&M professor from the Sudan spoke after the screening, which was an added benefit. The Kimball does all sorts of things like this, so I cannot recommend it highly enough to outside visitors who care as much about present-day conflicts as they do the history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

I took my first film class here! The upstairs viewing room is host to many film screenings at night for the college of william and mary, as well as film studies courses during the day. As the other reviews have stated, they play primarily independent films, and have plays and performances throughout the year that come through.

Its a great location, and they serve refreshments and have a small selection of snacks and food. Students and seniors get in for 6$ and the layout of the main kimball theatre is lovely.

I watched Sunshine Cleaning, Who killed the electric car, rocky horror picture show, and oh yeah, a lot of film festivals come through here, such as the french film festival, the foreign film festival, and... i can't remember others, but at one point they were showing all the godfather movies back to back.

i wish i would have taken advantage of this cute theatre a little more!