Theatre Ancaster’s upcoming MainStage production is Mamma Mia!; a “jukebox musical” based upon the hit songs of ABBA, the Swedish super-group
This Player’s Guild production, with tasteful musical direction by Brenda Uchimaru, is a slick, polished, and professional calibre evening of theatre
The story itself is about a young girl who wants to meet her biological father. Her mother claims he was a one night stand and she can’t remember his name.
Drury Lane Theatrical Productions kick off their season with Legally Blonde: The Musical, a stage adaptation of the 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon
It’s official: The Rocky Horror Show just won’t go away. And aren’t we happy and fortunate that this is the case?
When a lead actor confesses that her character is one of her ‘dream roles,’ it would seem to portend great things.
How responsible is a person for what others do with that person’s idea? Such is the subject of Vern Thiessen’s Einstein’s Gift
Theatre Aquarius has made a gripping choice for its next production, one embodying mature and realistic notions of modern families and identity.
Starting October 25th, nostalgia will hold sway at The Players’ Guild of Hamilton as the new wartime musical revue I’ll Be Seeing You has its premiere.
Dundas Little Theatre’s latest production, is Canadian playwright Vern Thessien’s 2003 drama, Einstein’s Gift. It is a thoughtful “memory play”
The Rocky Horror Show (hereafter referred to as RHS) is an October staple. Every Halloween season local rep cinemas program the 1975 film
The tech heavy nature of the production was one of the reasons it was initially struck from the playbill.
9M Theatre Company presents the romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, for one more weekend, in the second floor “Bright Room” at the Staircase Theatre
It is now October, and that means it’s time, for our annual look at some of the theatre productions, coming up on local stages.
Director Tom Levely and Producer Michelle Spanik have put together a solid foundation for what looks like a great promise of theatre to come in 2019/20.
Theatre Aquarius opens a new season with Norm Foster’s Renovations For Six directed by Ron Ulrich who has amassed a great cast.
This is not your Grandmother’s version of Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare penned this particular play, way back in 1601
The story centres on a cantankerous matriarch of a family, who recalls the moment, that Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949
The Classical Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Produced at the Pearl Company and directed by Gary Santucci.
Penned in 1982 by John Chapman (Move Over Mrs. Markham) and Dave Freeman (The Benny Hill Show) the play revolves around the activities of divorcee Harriet
The Fringe Festival continues in force, so make sure to check out these reviews and enjoy some fine theatre
Evan Hansen camp of modern musicals that forego sequins and kick lines and focus instead on the challenges of real life.
Curtain Call Performing Arts Company takes the stage July 12 at Hamilton Theatre Inc. with Next to Normal. Curtain Call
2019 is set to be an incredible year for the Hamilton Fringe, and the Players’ Guild of Hamilton is one of the best venues
David Brennan was born and raised in the Hammer, a place he describes as the perfect incubator for his comic soul.
Camille Intson, is a young woman, from Hamilton, with a real gift for narrative storytelling, writing songs, and plays.
The Hamilton Choir Project, has for the past three seasons, presented several choral focused concerts, on the local arts scene.
This week sees the debut of Tor’s newest experimental performance piece, Seven Songs, which is playing at the Staircase.
Hamilton Arts Week was launched in 2015 to celebrate local arts and culture, and increase visibility for the area’s creative industries.
Shanley, is a popular and prolific playwright, and this Irish-American romantic–comedy, is his most recent play.
Their final production of the season, The Hamilton Players’ Guild presents, The Gentleman Clothier, directed by Greg Flis and produced by Lynne Jamieson
Four performances remain of The Pearl Company’s run of My Father’s House, a troubling, emotional play based on Canadian writer Sylvia Fraser’s book
“After two years of telling stories every month, we took a season off,” says one of its founding members, multidisciplinary artist Lisa Pijuan–Nomura.
Patrick Cargill’s Don’t Misunderstand Me, currently presented as a co–production by Act 4 Productions and Theatre Burlington
“Daniel strikes me as an anachronism. He admits that he resembles a man who appears out of time, and that is how The Gentleman Clothier, is described,”
The beauty pageant tradition was thriving. Like the Oscars, the Grey Cup or a quality Friday night made–for–tv movie, the pageant found the family huddled
“We were looking for a script that would enable the four of us to work together closely, with the opportunity for us all to interact on stage."
(Hamilton, Ontario) “The list of benefits of being involved in drama and theatre performance is extensive,”
For the improv comedy troupe The Understudies: their hit show Swipe Right For Love will be featured as part of this year’s Hamilton Fringe Festival
While writers like Margaret Atwood can write dystopian fiction like The Handmaid’s Tale, most of them resist their writing, being categorized as “sci–fi”
It’s hard to quantify Visiting Mr Green, the Jeff Baron play currently being co-produced by Snapping Turtle Productions and the Pearl Company.
The four friends at the centre of The Aldershot Player’s latest offering prove that Always a Bridesmaid doesn’t have to mean never a bride.