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Back home this summer, Christian Hanna ’23 organized a peaceful community demonstration to celebrate the lives of Black Americans killed by the police. He's committed to activism on campus, too.

Theatre adapts, reflects, and, most importantly, survives. The industry is no stranger to abrupt, closure when the unexpected happens. Shakespeare himself lived through several recurrences of the plague, writing through quarantine restrictions, and imagining the new stories, characters, and worlds that would go on to be celebrated for hundreds of years.

Owen McCarthy ’20 has always enjoyed working with his hands. After Hamilton, he will have the opportunity to do just that as a rotational project engineer at New York City-based Structure Tone, a global leader in general contracting and construction management.

The Theatre Department presents the fall production, Tragedy: a tragedy, by Will Eno, a one-of-a-kind play that skewers the modern news cycle while capturing the underlying human need to apply order to an increasingly absurd world.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival attracts thousands of people from all over the world each August. Known as the largest arts and culture festival in the world, the Fringe Festival comprises free and paid performances and occupies a myriad of venues in Edinburgh, Scotland. The festival likewise features performances by big names in comedy and theatre, most notably Jojo Rinehart-Jones ’20.

This summer, Kenny Letts ’21 is stepping on stage, putting on his dancing shoes, warming up his voice, and teaching others to do the same. He's the lead intern and performance intern for the Broadway Dreams Foundation.

The lights go up. A timer goes off. Someone laughs. A dark, obscured figure walks behind the stage. A voice speaks from above, and the audience looks up, searching for a speaker in the dim lighting. There’s a collective silence as everyone holds their breath, waiting for the verdict. The lights go down. The crowd claps.

Adrian Summers ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Kenya. A Theatre and Africana Studies major, he answered some questions about his time at Hamilton and what he hopes to accomplish through his Fulbright ETA.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department presents the Fall Theater Production, King Stag, written by Carlo Gozzi and directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell.

A summer internship working with horses might not seem like the natural path for Stephanie Kall ’19, a biology and theatre double major. After briefly volunteering at The Root Farm in 2016 for her training as an orientation trip leader, Kall fell in love with the farm and its mission.