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2023…THAT’S A WRAP!


Season

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

A New Brain

August 16 - September 10 Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union St, Pittsfield, MA)
2023 Season

A Barrington Stage Company production in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival

Music & Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Musical Direction by Vadim Feichtner
Choreographed by Chloe O. Davis
Directed by Joe Calarco

Gordon Schwinn, a frustrated composer for a children’s TV show, collapses during lunch and finds himself in the hospital. There he contemplates his life, relationships, and the meaning of music while facing medical uncertainty and hauntings by an imaginary frog from the show he’s composing for. A New Brain by Tony Award-winning composer & BSC Associate Artist William Finn is... Read More

Artist-in-residence workshops

July 13 - August 6
2023 Season

Play development is a year-round activity at WTF. Every summer, the Festival supports new work in development by inviting artists to participate in residencies and workshops. We’re thrilled to welcome the following artists and projects to Williamstown this summer. Additional artists-in-residence will be announced soon! (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…)

Paris, ACTORS!

July 22 - July 23 2023 Festival Stage
2023 Season

By Hamish Linklater
Directed by Jack O’Brien

Paris, ACTORS is part of the Main Stage Reading Series this summer. Occupied Paris. 1944. Real life celebrity Nazi Werner Krauss is between projects. But the Party, desperate for a propaganda extravaganza in the City of Lights, has arranged a remount of his notorious Merchant of Venice produced by a French theater teeming with family secrets. Paris, ACTORS! is “The... Read More

Three Sisters

July 29 - July 30 2023 Festival Stage
2023 Season

By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Kristjan Thor

Three Sisters is part of the Main Stage Reading Series this summer. The beloved Prozorov family returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer to recount their timeless and tumultuous tale of existential longing. In this Chekhov classic, sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina yearn for the promise of Moscow while grappling with the tribulations of unrequited love and family drama at... Read More

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