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Brian Morton is a director and playwright, and was the recipient of the 2013 Hamilton Arts Award for Theatre. In 1988, after two years training in Montreal at the National Theatre School of Canada, Morton was the founder and first artistic director of Theatre Terra Nova, which operated out of a 100 seat theatre on Dundurn Street. Three years after that, he was a partner with Guy Sprung in the Evelyn Group, which reopened the historic 750 seat Tivoli Theatre, as a venue for live performance with a production of Douglas Rodger’s play “How Could You, Mrs Dick?”, which dramatized the story of Hamilton’s notorious Evelyn Dick. With Theatre Erebus, he produced the UK premieres of four Canadian plays for the 1990 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His stage adaptation of Sylvia Fraser’s “My Father’s House”, has had five productions, since it debuted in in 1992, at the Dundas Centre for the Arts. Morton’s “New Talent” was the highest grossing show in the 2008 Hamilton Fringe Festival, and in 2010, it toured to the London and Toronto Fringe Festivals. Brian’s original musical, “Under the Apple Tree”, about a shooting that happened backstage, at the Lyric theatre on Mary street in November 1921, debuted in the 2018 Hamilton Fringe Festival, and was presented at the 300-seat Zoetic Theatre; it got a second run at the Pearl Company, this past November. Brian was also the producer of the 2012 Hamilton Fringe Festival. He is currently a drama critic, and arts journalist for "VIEW Magazine", and has also published articles in the “Hamilton Spectator” and the “McMaster Silhouette”.
International Shows at Hamilton Fringe Festival - Several shows playing at this year's Hamilton Fringe Festival are international in origin. Published July 19, 2019 in Arts and Music
Babel-o-drome, Published August 01, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
We've Come From Away (Toronto), Published July 26, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Back Home, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Monster, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Journey to the East, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Bungalow, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Bushtits, Shihtzus & Private Dicks: All's Fur in Love & Noir, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
One Last Toast to the Schafer Street Queen, Published July 25, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Fairytale Femdom, Published July 24, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Diamonds on Plastic, Published July 24, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Diamond in the Rough, Published July 24, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Bad Ideas, Published July 24, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
A Time of Future Tales, Published July 21, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
Under Where?, Published July 21, 2019 in Reviews - Fringe 2019
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