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2023…THAT’S A WRAP!


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Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2023 Season served as a vibrant hub where playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and administrators were able to develop new work, revisit classic stories, and come closer to audiences than ever before. The 2023 Festival Stage, designed by Se Hyun Oh with lighting design by Emily Schmit, moved audience members from the typical orchestra and balcony seating of... Read More

2024 Williamstown Theatre Festival Gala

February 12 City Winery in NYC
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Join us at the 2024 WTF Gala, honoring Jenny Gersten for her terrific fifteen years of service to WTF! Join us for an evening of delicious food, joyous performances and special appearances by Laura Benanti, Charlie Day, Micaela Diamond, Alex Edelman, Lena Hall, David Hornsby, Grace McLean, Nate Mooney, Clint Ramos, Jimmi Simpson, and Alex Timbers, and a sneak peek... Read More

Fridays@3 Reading Series

July 14 - August 4 The Clark Auditorium (225 South St)
2023 Season

New plays by Kamilah Bush, Cindy Lou Johnson, Clarence Coo, and Aurora Real de Asua

WTF’s Fridays@3 reading series is a renowned program for the development and discovery of new work. Many Festival productions started as Fridays@3 readings. Spend the afternoon at the Clark with a play in development, performed by professional actors. (more…)

Paradise Blue

Available Now on Audible!
2020 Season

By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
With André Holland, Kristolyn Lloyd, Simone Missick, Keith Randolph Smith, Blair Underwood

It's 1949 in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood, and there’s no better place to hear or play jazz than Paradise Club. Blue (Emmy Award winner, Grammy Award winner, and 2020 Tony Award nominee Blair Underwood), club owner and trumpeter, can wail like no other, but as forces outside the club conspire to irreparably change life inside and outside Paradise's walls, he... Read More

Paradise Blue

July 22 - August 2 Main Stage
2015 Season

By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

WORLD PREMIERE (2012 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award Winner) Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs Tony Award-nominee De'Adre Aziza, Golden Globe-nominee Blair Underwood, and Andre Holland  in the world premiere of a bracing and charged drama from Dominique Morisseau. Blue (Underwood), a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of... Read More

Lackawanna Blues

August 21 - August 25 Main Stage
2002 Season

Author: Santiago-Hudson, Ruben
Director: Greco, Loretta

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