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Michael Kras
21 Jul 2020

Hamilton Fringe Festival’s reimagined ‘What the Fest’ kicks off today

Typically, around this time each year, multiple venues in Hamilton’s downtown core and beyond are taken over by an 11-day extravaganza of live theatre, sketch comedy, music, magic, dance, and more. ...

Michael Kras
26 Jun 2020

Hamilton Fringe Festival goes digital amid COVID-19

Proving that artists are some of the most resilient and adaptive people out there, one of Hamilton’s biggest arts festivals has completely reinvented itself to fit in with the current realities of t...

Michael Kras
23 Jun 2020

This new project is paying Hamilton’s BIPOC artists to make new art

Are you a Hamilton-based BIPOC artist who wants to get paid to create something this summer? Well, a new local initiative – the first of its kind in the city – is planning to help you do just that...

Michael Kras
11 Jun 2020

This new podcast is all about the arts and artists of Hamilton

It’s no secret that Hamilton has a rich and robust arts & culture scene. But do you know much about the artists behind that performance piece you saw at Art Crawl, or that painting that riveted ...

Michael Kras
24 Apr 2020

VIDEO: Hamilton theatre companies raise their voices in harmony during COVID-19

During these distressing times, it seems that people feel the need to turn to art for comfort, solace, and connection more than ever. That said, the arts & culture industry has taken a major hit d...

Michael Kras
20 Apr 2020

Hamilton actor Nick Cordero has right leg amputated due to COVID-19 complications

In the midst of an intense, weeks-long battle in hospital with multiple complications from COVID-19, Hamilton native and Broadway actor Nick Cordero had his right leg amputated on Saturday night after...

Michael Kras
13 Apr 2020

Hamilton actor Nick Cordero is in critical condition with COVID-19

Hamilton-born stage and screen actor Nick Cordero is in critical condition at a hospital in Los Angeles due to complications from COVID-19. Cordero was initially admitted to hospital and misdiagnosed ...

Michael Kras
10 Apr 2020

Hamilton Arts Council has launched an artist relief fund and live performance series

With concert venues, rehearsal halls, and theatre spaces shuttered amid COVID-19 and more questions than answers regarding when audiences will be permitted – or willing – to return to live perform...

Michael Kras
07 Apr 2020

The Hamilton Fringe Festival has been cancelled amid COVID-19

In a move that’s as sad as it is unsurprising, one of Hamilton’s largest annual arts festivals has just announced that it will be cancelling all of this year’s public events and activities amid ...

Michael Kras
03 Apr 2020

Lights, Camera, Hamilton!

Brought to you by Forge & Foster Investment Management. Crimson Peak. The Shape of Water. IT: Chapter Two. The Handmaid’s Tale. The Umbrella Academy. American Gods. The Good Witch. The Boys. Mur...