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A cast and crew of more than 70 students participated in eight sold-out performances of the Spring Theatre production of Jonathan Larson's "Rent." The groundbreaking Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning show reinvented musicals when it debuted in 1996. An inspiring story about friends and artists struggling in New York City's East Village, "Rent" tackles addiction, poverty, AIDS, and most of all, love. The production was directed by Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer.

Thirty-six Hamilton students performed in the Dance and Movement Studies Department's annual spring dance concert. The performance was choreographed by Hamilton faculty Sarah Jacobs, Biboti Ouikahilo, Kingsley Pipim, and Julia Shove, along with guest choreographers rayven armijo and Matthew Powell, and Hamilton students Deanna Durben, Reagan Flores, Ailis Hayden, Gabriela Munoz Rojas, and Elizabeth Oakes.

A cast and crew of more than 50 students participated in the Fall Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, a play about political discord, morality, authenticity, and a woman's right to control her body, a topic that continues to resonate today. The production was directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell.

Twenty-nine Hamilton students performed in the Dance and Movement Studies Department's fall dance concert on Oct. 28 and 29. The performance was choreographed by Hamilton faculty Sarah Jacobs, Julia Shove, Bruce Walczyk, and Paris Wilcox. Also included was a dance choreographed by Leslie Norton, and restaged by Wilcox. Norton, a Hamilton dance professor for 27 years, died in 2011.

Warning: vulgarity used in title. More than 55 students were members of the cast and crew for the spring theatre production of "Fucking A," by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The production was directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Jeanne Willcoxon.

Twenty-five Hamilton students performed in the Dance and Movement Studies Department's annual spring dance concert on March 4 and 5. The performance was choreographed by Hamilton faculty Elaine Heekin, Julia Shove, Bruce Walczyk, and Paris Wilcox, along with guest choreographer John Castagna of Ballet Collective/LA, and Hamilton senior Toscana Ogihara.

A cast and crew more than 45 students participated in the Fall Theatre production of 10 Out of 12, by playwright Anne Washburn. The play focuses on a fictional technical rehearsal in which actors can only work 10 of the 12 hours they are on set, as per union rules. And, as in a real technical rehearsal, some cast members, such as those playing stage managers or lighting/sound designers, sit in the audience. Directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell, 10 Out of 12 was the first Hamilton production with a full audience, and maskless actors onstage since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

A cast and crew of some 50 students participated in the Spring Theatre production of "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. The play focuses on a trial to decide the fate of Judas' soul. Will the prosecution win, and make "Judas" synonymous with "betrayal" for all eternity, or will the defense prevail and prove God's unending love? The production was directed by Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer.

A cast of Hamilton students and alumni performed a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets in a fall theatre production exploring the meaning of community during the pandemic that has altered life around the globe. "In War With Time, From The Sonnets of William Shakespeare," a partly live and partly recorded performance, was presented on YouTube. The production was directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell.

The final projects of 12 Hamilton senior art majors are featured in a virtual exhibition titled "Unmute." With a diverse array of media serving their artistic ideas, students this year have made use of painting, collage, photography, sculpture, virtual reality, animation, and video in their work. This exhibition provides students with the opportunity to explore issues of artistic professionalism. For some, the exhibition marks the first time their work has been on public view.

Twenty-six Hamilton students performed in the Dance and Movement Studies Department's annual spring dance concert on March 6 and 7. The performance was choreographed by Hamilton faculty Elaine Heekin, Sandra Stanton-Cotter, Bruce Walczyk, and Paris Wilcox, along with guest choreographer Ashely McQueen of Smashworks Dance in New York.

Hamilton students are participating in Hamilton's Fall Theatre production of TRAGEDY: a tragedy, written by Will Eno and directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell. TRAGEDY: a tragedy, is Eno's hilarious, one of a kind play skewers the never ending modern news cycle while capturing the underlying human need to apply order to an increasingly absurd world.

Seven students had the opportunity to work with Ethiopian artist Elias Sime as he created a site-specific oversized peony sculpture as part of his fall exhibition at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. "Flowers and Roots" is made of repurposed computer parts, electrical wire, bronze sheeting, and cast stone amalgam. It was inspired by the tree peonies hybridized by Professor of Chemistry A.P. Saunders from 1920 to 1940, many of which are on display in Hamilton's Grant Garden.

Sixty students participated in the Spring Theatre production of West Side Story, directed by Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer. A cast of 26 students participated in the Spring Theatre production of West Side Story, directed by Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer. A live orchestra, featuring 30 students and conducted by Heather Buchman, accompanied the performance. The classic American musical received an update with the Theatre Department's production. Set in 2018 Bronx, New York, five months after hurricane Maria, the timeless musical tells a story of love, of otherness and street gangs. West Side Story was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International.

The College Hill Singers, under Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Interim Director of Choral Activities Danan Tsan, performed in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Charleston, and Tampa during the annual spring break tour. The 24-member group performed music from the western canon and around the world including Cum Sancto Spiritu by Hyo-Won Woo (Korea), Norwegian Alleluia by Kim Andre Arneson (Norway), Sleepsong by Rolf Lovland and arranged by Desmond Earley (Ireland), Daemon Irrepit Callidus by Gyorgy Orban (Hungary), and Earth Blessing by J David Moore (American Indian), among others.

Twenty-one Hamilton students performed in the Dance and Movement Studies Department's annual spring dance concert on March 8 and 9. The performance was choreographed by Hamilton faculty Elaine Heekin, Sandra Stanton-Cotter, Bruce Walczyk, and Paris Wilcox, along with guest choreographer John Castagna, of The Ballet Collective in Los Angeles.

Hamilton students are participating in Hamilton's Fall Theatre production of King Stag, written by Carlo Gozzi and directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell. King Stag, written in 1762, is a fairy tale about love, death, and transformation. The show centers on the human search for honesty in a fantastical world plagued by duplicity and greed. Bunraku-style puppets are used to portray a range of figures, from the stag referenced in the title, to a towering bear, to an animated statue.