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Jeff Larson, resident designer and production manager for Theatre, took a group of Theatre students to the Stanley Theater in Utica last week, where they were given an in-depth backstage tour by Tony winning sound designer Scott Lehrer of the upcoming national touring production of “Hello Dolly.”

A show for which Jeff Larson designed the video will premiere at the Old Vic Theatre in London next week. “17c” is the newest Big Dance Theater ensemble work, built around the problematic 17th century diaries of Samuel Pepys.

A chapter by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell is included in Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments, recently published by Amsterdam University Press.

Lily Delle-Levine ’21 participated in the American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) national conference held in Minneapolis on August 1 - 5. She co-authored a presentation titled “Love is Love: Same-Sex Romeo and Juliet,” performed scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and participated in a panel discussion on her experiences performing in a queer reimagining of this iconic story of star-crossed lovers.

Warmups at 8:30 a.m., rehearsals all day, and then acting classes from 7 to 9 p.m. By the time the dust has settled and Angelique Archer‘’20 is finished for the day, she’s already preparing for her next performance. It’s all part of the job for Archer, a theatre major interning at the Saratoga Shakespeare Company as an acting apprentice.

As an activist and a trauma survivor, Emily Aviles ’19 is always looking for new ways to find healing. When she first came to Hamilton, she planned to major in creative writing, but everything changed after she took her first theatre class.

While he was working on the lighting design for last fall’s main stage theatre production, Adrian Summers ’19 became fascinated with the manipulation of light and color on set, particularly how it interacted with the different hues of the performers’ skin.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Sara Walsh was the scenic designer for a play that recently opened in New York City. The Gentleman Caller runs through May 26 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

Angelique Archer and William Benthem de Grave, both members of the Class of 2020, share dual passions — economics and theatre — and found a way to develop them both, in part because Hamilton has an open curriculum.

The Theatre Department presents William Shakespeare’s Hamlet for its Spring Main Stage production. Directed by Mark Cryer, Hamlet has all of the elements of a great drama: courtly intrigue, murder, revenge, family betrayal, and forbidden seduction.