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2018…THAT’S A WRAP!

THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Season

Throughout 2018, Williamstown Theatre Festival continued its traditions of developing and producing artistically vibrant and culturally resonant plays and musicals, incubating the next generation of great theatre artists, and connecting broad and diverse audiences with its work.  This summer, over just 55 days of the Festival, we produced more than 165 performances of 34 shows, readings, and special events as... Read More

Pygmalion

July 17 - July 27 Main Stage
2013 Season

Author: Shaw, George Bernard
Director: Martin, Nicholas
"You have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being." With all the parallels of a modern reality-show makeover, an impoverished flower seller is taken in hand by a linguistics professor who attempts to change her accent and pass her off as the epitome of English society.... Read More

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

July 11 - July 22 Nikos Stage
2012 Season

Author: Simon, Neil
Director: Stone, Jessica
Meet Barney Cashman. He's a middle-aged restaurant manager who has a very nice married existence. But he's tired of existing; he wants to live — before it's too late. Maybe one afternoon of passion could be so exhilarating, so vivid, that the memory alone would sate his desire for more. Three women, three afternoons, three shots at living in Technicolor.... Read More

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A

June 30 - July 11 Main Stage
2010 Season

Author: Shevelove, Burt and Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim
Director: Stone, Jessica
The Romans are coming! With a nod and a wink to Plautus, director Jessica Stone helms an all-male troop of actors into the comic fray with this fresh, "old" take on American master and Pulitzer Prize winner, Stephen Sondheim's raucous musical classic. With Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald leading the charge as Pseudolus, a slave who must win his freedom by... Read More

What is the Cause of Thunder?

July 22 - August 2 Nikos Stage
2009 Season

Author: Haidle, Noah
Director: Waldman, Justin
After 27 years on the same soap opera, Ada is starting to confuse her art and her life. But after so many years of acting, her art is her life. Haidle’s poignant comedy brings us the hilarity of day-time drama alongside the harsher, but often equally funny, realities of life. Festival Artistic Associate Justin Waldman directs this world-premiere.

Knickerbocker

July 8 - July 19 Nikos Stage
2009 Season

Author: Sherman, Jonathan Marc
Director: Martin, Nicholas
Are you ready? The question looms over Jerry as the months tick by and his unborn son grows from the size of a peach to the size of, well, a baby. As the birth date creeps ever nearer, will the advice, encouragement and warnings of friends and family make Jerry more or less ready? The awe and terror of becoming... Read More

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