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WTF HAPPENED IN 2016


Season

Building upon the Festival’s sixty-two-year history of creating excellent work, our 2016 season featured an exhilarating combination of artistic risk-taking and achievement.  Marisa Tomei opened the season in a “buoyant, memorable, inventive, and striking” production (New York Times) of Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, with a performance that Observer called “a one-woman fireworks display.”  After critically acclaimed runs at WTF,... Read More

Last Goodbye, The

August 5 - August 20 Nikos Stage
2010 Season

Author: Kimmel, Michael
Director: Kimmel, Michael
A legendary love. A transcendent artist. Shakespeare’s classic verse meets the driving, passionate rock of iconic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley in the world premiere of The Last Goodbye. Conceived and adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel with the music and lyrics of Jeff Buckley arranged by Kris Kukul, an ensemble of fourteen singer/actors bring to life the lyrical... Read More

Romeo and Juliet

August 2 - August 13 Main Stage
2006 Season

Author: Shakespeare, William
Director: Frears, Will
"A plague on both your houses!" ROMEO AND JULIET, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, has become western culture's defining romance. As old as the ancient Italian town in which it's set, yet as urgent, inevitable and shocking as today's headlines. A star-crossed couple, more in love than any two people have a right to be, find each other, and are... Read More

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

August 5 - August 14 Free Theatre | Buxton School Field
2004 Season

Author: Rushdie, Salman
Director: Cabnet, Evan
Evan Cabnet, the director of 2003’s Ubu The King, returns to WTF with a play that has influences of Alice in Wonderland, Arabian Nights, and The Wizard of Oz. Haroun is the skeptical son of Rashid, a storyteller known as the Shah of Blah. Tired of Rashid’s constant yarn-spinning, Haroun complains, “What’s the use of stories if they aren’t even... Read More

Ubu the King

July 31 - August 9 Free Theatre | Buxton School Field
2003 Season

Author: Jarry, Alfred
Director: Cabnet, Evan

Rocket to the Moon

August 14 - August 24 The Other Stage
1996 Season

Author: Odets, Clifford
Director: Woodward, Joanne

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