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PREVIEW: Harold Pinter’s Old Times burrows into ‘dark, unspoken places’

Production brings together four old friends, including local theatre giant Gary Smith as director, for the British playwright’s intriguing and haunting tale about memory, power and desire. Long-time area actor and director Dia Gupta Frid formed her production company, Frid Pro Quo at the end of 2025 and…
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incite: Delivering on a mission

Since the incite Foundation for the Arts was formed in 2011, it has donated $11 million to local arts organizations. On its 15th anniversary, the incite Foundation for the Arts is reaffirming its mission to revolutionize support for the arts in the greater Hamilton community.  incite strives to…
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Caroline Wiles: Just being herself

The Ancaster singer-songwriter has just released her sixth album, Just Be You, but don’t ask her what genre it is. HINT: It’s a bit of everything. Just Be You, the sixth album by Ancaster-based folk-pop singer-songwriter Caroline Wiles, was released on April 24, and it is another…
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THE PLAYLIST

Born Ruffians – Beauty’s Pride For a band that once felt like it might combust from sheer nervous energy and mileage logged, Born Ruffians have aged in a surprisingly graceful, and still charmingly unpredictable way. Beauty’s Pride finds the long-running Toronto/Hamilton group loosening their grip on that early, jittery urgency…
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PRIDE: Queer and crafting in Hamilton

QUARTZ: Queer Art Hang at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Queer Craft Club at Hamilton Craft Studios offers an oulet for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to gather and create. If you are queer and into crafting, you have two options to let your creative flag fly and…
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Two interesting plays coming to local stages

We asked the creator of For What We Labour about setting a farce in Ancient Greece and staging it in a Hamilton home, and we talked to the artistic director of the Hamilton Theatre Project about the darkly comic and provocative Within the Glass. For What We Labour:…