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An American Daughter

August 3 - August 21 Main Stage
2016 Season

By Wendy Wasserstein
Directed by Evan Cabnet
With Kerry Bishe, Jason Danieley, Diane Davis, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Roe Hartrampf, Stephen Kunken, Carson Meyer, Richard Poe, Will Pullen, Deborah Rush

When the President of the United States nominates Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes (Diane Davis) to the position of Surgeon General, the excavation of her past triggers a scandal that threatens her confirmation. As partisan politics play out, Lyssa’s deep personal relationships and impressive career trajectory hang in the balance. Evan Cabnet directs Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Wendy Wasserstein’s prescient... Read More

Living On Love

July 16 - July 26 Main Stage
2014 Season

By Joe DiPietro
Based on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin
Directed by Kathleen Marshall

World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming takes the Festival stage as celebrated diva Raquel De Angelis. When her husband, the fiery and egomaniacal Maestro Vito De Angelis, becomes enamored with the lovely young lady hired to ghostwrite his long-delayed autobiography, Raquel retaliates by hiring her very own — and very handsome — ghostwriter to chronicle her life as an opera star. As... Read More

Quartermaine’s Terms

August 12 - August 23 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Gray, Simon
Director: Aitken, Maria
Tony-nominated director Maria Aitken directs this charming and heart-felt 1960s comedy about an endearingly eccentric group of English teachers in Cambridge whose insatiable quest for knowledge has masked their secret longings for passion, romance, and true happiness.

The Opposite of Sex

August 9 - August 20 Nikos Stage
2006 Season

Author: Cohen, Douglas J.
Director: Roth, Robert Jess
Meet Dedee Truitt, a "troubled" 16 year-old who moves in with her gay half-brother in small town Indiana and runs off with his boyfriend and $10,000 from his safe deposit box. (And that's just the first act.) Dedee's wild ride - culminating in birth, death, and the search for Bananas Foster - wreaks havoc on the lives she touches, but... Read More

Sweet Bird of Youth

July 19 - July 30 Main Stage
2006 Season

Author: Williams, Tennessee
Director: Jones, David
"Relentless caper for all those who step / The legend of their youth into the noon." With this quote from his spiritual and literary mentor, Hart Crane, Tennessee Williams began his last great lyric play. A movie star who's seen better days, Alexandra Del Lago (travelling incognito as "Princess") occupies a hotel room with a young man, Chance Wayne. chance... Read More

Berkshire Village Idiot

July 30 - August 10 The Nikos Stage
2003 Season

Author: Connor, Michael Isaac
Director: Edelstein, Barry

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