Hamilton Drama Society

05/02/2026

Opening night was a huge success! The band! The crew! The actors! Brilliant all the way around, couldn't be more proud. Don't miss your chance to see the hilarious Drowsy Chaperone tonight at 7 and tomorrow at 2!!

04/26/2026

Just a small sneak peek of our Sitzprobe last week. Our cast and pit sound AMAZING! get your tickets now!!
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03/12/2026

After 2 fantastic school time shows, these wonderful middle school kids are ready for YOU! Get your tickets now, or at the door, to join us for Mary Poppins Jr Friday at 7pm or Saturday at 2pm.
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03/09/2026

Come see our younger theatre kids in this SUPER-B production!!!

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02/06/2026

We love our graphic arts students and Tom Schlueter ! "Stay gold!💛

Hamilton High School Graphic Communication students are finishing up shirts for Hamilton Drama Society ahead of next week's "The Outsiders" production.

02/05/2026

Join us for our winter production, The Outsiders!

This entirely practical stage adaptation deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile young lives:

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,

so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

"Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … "I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be." This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle.

Tickets are $5 seniors/students, $8 adults.

Content Advisory (PG-13):

This production contains moments of staged violence, references to bullying,

and mature themes including poverty, family conflict, death, grief, and mental health.

Viewer discretion is advised.

11/21/2025

We came, we left it all on the stage, and couldn't be prouder! "A Game" pushed and challenged us all in new ways, and has left us filled with joy and pride, but most importantly, gratitude. Thank you Wisconsin Thespians Wisconsin Interscholastic Speech & Dramatic Arts Association

11/08/2025

Congratulations to our Competitive One Act, A Game, on advancing to state today! See you at UW Steven's Point in 2 weeks!

11/08/2025

Looking for something to do tonight and tomorrow?! Come check out 2 FANTASTIC one act shows! Tickets on sale at the door!

10/18/2025

Tickets on sale now!!!

Join the Hamilton Drama Society for a night of two One Act plays! Our first show is our Competitive One Act, A Game. Three people accept an invitation to take part in an experiment—a game in which a small room is divided into three equal areas—one for each person. At intervals they recite a slogan: "This is my land. It is mine. It is beautiful, and it is mine." As the game progresses, we see the drive that makes each human want to possess more than their neighbors—a drive that causes hatred ... and starts wars. A Game begins as farce and ends in deadly earnest.

Our second show is sure to make you laugh, Paper or Plastic. For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she's easily qualified to check out customers at Puritan Foods, her local grocery store. At least it has to be better than serving up greasy fast food, right? But Sarah isn't prepared for Carl, the assistant manager, who refuses to deal with unruly customers because he's too busy putting up Christmas displays in August. And she isn't ready to deal with the customer who can't put down her cellphone long enough to acknowledge that Sarah is there. Or the two dudes who use their time in the checkout line to launch into an existential argument about the environment. And what about the mysterious cowboy or, even worse, Angus, the person who Carl warns Sarah about the day she's hired. Then there are her crazy co-workers who put on camouflage to hunt down stray grocery carts or live in closets and subsist on Twizzlers to avoid Carl. All Sarah wants is the answer to the simplest question in the world: paper or plastic?

Shows are November 7-8 at 7 p.m. and November 9 at 2 p.m. at the Hamilton Fine Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased at the door 30 mins before the show or online: www.hamiltonfineartscenter.com