The construction of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, which began in mid-summer of 2011, is scheduled to be finished next August, according to Associate Vice President for Facilities and Planning Steve Bellona.

Hamilton’s Board of Trustees voted at their December meeting to proceed with design construction documents for a new theatre and studio arts building.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department will present Georg Büchner’s 1836 classic Woyzeck, directed by Professor Carole Bellini-Sharp and translated by Carl Richard Mueller.

Societal pressures shape the way in which many young people develop into adulthood. In fact, cultural norms are so ubiquitous that there are few examples of people who truly break the mold. Kadahj Bennett ’12, an Emerson Summer Grant recipient, is working with Associate Professor of Theater Mark Cryer to create an interdisciplinary, innovative street theater performance piece, Letters to the Shadows in the Sky, on the male black identity in modern society.

Rem Van Aiken Myers, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Indonesia.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the Spring Theater Production, Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes, by Liz Duffy Adams. Performances will run  Thursday, April 14 –  Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m., and Wednesday, April 20 – Saturday April 23 at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance at 2 p.m. on Sat., April 16. All performances take place in Minor Theater.

Three technical theatre students recently traveled to the U. S. Institute for Theatre Technology Conference in Charlotte, N.C.  Juan Hurtado ’11, Lauren Lanzotti ’14 and Mary Lehner ’12 took part in the four-day event where they sat in on lectures, demonstrations and Q&A forums with professionals in the theatre technology industry. Lanzotti and Lehner won the “Jack Suesse Memorial Stump-the-Rigger” competition.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at the University of Akron on Feb. 9. While there he also taught a master class. Cryer created the play with a former student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Andrew Holland is designing the scenery for a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The opera will have its premiere on Feb. 11 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Conn. 

Hamilton’s 4th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day dinner theatre featured a sold-out presentation of Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer, the M-Theatre production is dedicated to providing theatrical works that will both challenge and reaffirm the campus' many perspectives on race, religion and gender. Tuesday's show is a sell-out but seats remain for Wednesday, Jan. 19, in the Fillius Events Barn.