Allison M. Jones - Hamilton City Magazine - Page 6 Skip to main content
Celebrating all things Hamilton / Welcome Message

Arts + Culture

Crown Point Players makes debut

New musical theatre group of mostly queer artists aims to produce interesting productions in unexpected places. It kicks off with 35mm: A Musical Exhibition. Director Claire Hughes says 35mm: A Musical Exhibition is “funny, poignant, and thought-provoking. The creative process has been unconventional and the result is something…
Arts + Culture

It’s in the Constellations

The small play at The Staircase Theatre about free will, love, friendship, multiverse theory is making its Hamilton premiere after award-winning runs around the world. There are many ways to connect with Constellations, says Amber Mills, producer of the Hamilton premiere run and one of its two performers.
Arts + Culture

Burn: A puzzling ghost story

The Players' Guild of Hamilton takes on psychological thriller written by Ottawa-area playwright for season-ending production. Closing out the 2023-2024 season at The Players’ Guild of Hamilton is the psychological thriller Burn, which has been called “highly suspenseful” by Onstage Ottawa. Weaving together a ghost story with a…
Arts + Culture

Good advice: Listen to Your Mother

The Players’ Guild of Hamilton is contributing to the storytelling phenomenon that ‘gave motherhood a microphone’ “Listen to Your Mother,” a live storytelling event celebrating every facet of motherhood, was launched in 2010 in Madison, Wisc. Its creator was Ann Imig, a popular “mommy blogger” with a background in…
Arts + Culture

Dundas Little Theatre’s new play reimagines what hero means

‘Edgy contemporary drama’ Lobby Hero and its flawed characters and difficult themes expected to generate a lot of talk, reflection among attendees. Nicholas Ruddick is the chair of the Dundas Little Theatre’s play reading committee that proposes a playbill to the DLT board each season. The aim is…
Arts + Culture

Grief, gardening and growing up

Village Theatre Waterdown presents Bloom, a play about innocence, hope and friendship, and a production where newer performers are cultivating their craft. It’s fitting that Village Theatre Waterdown’s spring production is titled Bloom, in more ways than one. The play follows a grieving teenager who, after acting out…
HCC
Hamilton music Collective