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The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the fall theater production, A Dream Play, by August Strindberg in a new version by Caryl Churchill. Performances will run Nov. 6 – Nov. 8, and  Nov. 12 –  Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series presents the American Shakespeare Center in Much Ado about Nothing on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.  Actors will perform live music “pre-show” entertainment beginning at 7 p.m.

The Hamilton College Saxophone Ensemble performed at two local events recently. On Sunday, Oct. 19, the group played at the annual B# Music Club fundraiser scholarship concert at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum. Utica College welcomed the ensemble to its Lunch Hour Series concert on Oct. 22.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a solo piano recital by 19-year-old  George Li on Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. George’s younger brother Andrew will also perform. The event is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College is one of 25 schools selected by The Acting Company to participate in a new national consortium-based performance and education initiative comprised of universities, colleges, public/private high schools and community organizations.  Each consortium will offer professional development opportunities with playwrights, actors, designers, directors and educators over the next three years.

Local families can experience the magic of Harry Potter at the 14th annual Hogwarts at Hamilton, taking place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, at Benedict Hall, on the Hamilton College campus. All shows are free and open to the public.  

Hamilton’s combined Fallcoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 9-12, will celebrate the arts with a number of exciting events including the dedication of The Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts, the opening of the new Alyson Shotz exhibit in the Wellin Museum, and addresses by national leaders in the arts world.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the Lark String Quartet on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

“The Sound of Silent Film: A Two-Part Benshi Event,” the second 2014 F.I.L.M. Series program, offered a packed house a multi-faceted event featuring a unique musical collaboration between international artists from Japan, France and Canada on Sunday, Sept. 28. The audience, which included numerous local Utica community members, were treated to a world premiere of a Western-style composition with traditional Japanese instruments brought together for the purpose of accompanying Japanese silent movies.

Hamilton’s FILM series will host a Benshi Event featuring benshi Ichiro Kataoka, composer Gabriel Thibaudeau and musicians from Japan, Canada and France on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.