Stephen Hamilton News

Ray Bradbury’s prescient, Cold War classic, “Fahrenheit 451” was brought to the stage at Bay Street Theater with even more urgency and relevance to our increasingly curated, aesthetic, and good vibes based lives in 2025.

Literature Live!, Bay Street’s flagship educational initiative. Now in its 16th year, the program brings professional theatrical productions of literary classics to thousands of students across Long Island—free of charge.

Bay Street Theater will present Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 from November 13 through November 30, 2025, directed by Bay Street co-founder Stephen Hamilton.

Westport Country Playhouse will present Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist in “The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music.' Portions of the proceeds from this fundraising event will support the Joanne Woodward Internship Program and educational programming at the Playhouse.

Tony Award-nominated performer Melissa Errico has announced a wide array of upcoming shows from Sondheim in the City at the Princeton Festival on June 8 to The Fitzgeralds with Alec Baldwin in East Hampton, NY on August 16 and beyond.

Rehearsals are underway for Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE  at Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts. Check out all new photos from rehearsal here!

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced the addition of Shea Buckner in the role of Stanley Kowalski and Adelaide Mestre in the roles of Nurse/Mexican Woman to the cast of 2024’s much-anticipated presentation: Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE! 

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced 024’s much-anticipated Literature Live! presentation: Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has been cast! 

Bay Street Theater will present Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE as the presentation for its 16th Annual Literature Live! series, bringing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play to life for students and the community. Learn how to attend!

Bay Street Theater is holding auditions for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Actors are invited to showcase their talents for this iconic Tennessee Williams play. Find out how to audition and join the cast.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, best known for its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park production and its rich array of arts education programs, raised over $90,000 at their ‘2024 All the World’s a Stage Gala’ held on Saturday, April 20 at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club on Washington Square in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced that submissions are now open for Writing The Wave: The 2024 New Works Creative Writing Competition.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts held its Summer Gala on Saturday, July 8, at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor with Lifetime Achievement Awards honoring Julie Andrews, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Patrons were treated with a performance of Pictures from Home and a talkback by Stewart F. Lane!

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced that submissions are now open for Writing The Wave: The 2023 New Works Creative Writing Competition, a creative writing contest open to all teens ages 13 and up across Suffolk County, held as part of the ninth annual Title Wave: The 2023 New Works Festival.

​​​​​​​ Fort Salem Theater has just announced local casting for “Spring Awakening,” the iconic musical that kicks off their 2023 season on March 17, running through March 26.

Fort Salem Theater has just announced local casting for “Spring Awakening,” the iconic musical that kicks off their 2023 season on March 17, running through March 23.

The recipients of the 2022 Boston Artadia Awards are Stephen Hamilton, the Liberty Specialty Markets Artadia Award recipient, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Shantel Miller. The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards were also supported by the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, the Meraki Artist Award, the Artadia Board of Directors, Artadia Council Members, anonymous funders, and individual donors across the country.

Warm up those vocal cords, Fort Salem Theater has announced auditions for their upcoming production of Spring Awakening!

Julie Andrews will direct an upcoming staged reading of The Great American Mousical, at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The reading will star Debra Monk as Adelaide; Howard McGillin as Henry/Father; and more.