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2018 WTF GALA

Honoring Trustee Gary Levine
Season

Please join us as we celebrate Williamstown Theatre Festival and honor Trustee Gary Levine, President of Programming at Showtime and former Festival Managing Director, at the WTF Gala in New York City on Monday, February 5, 2018 at Tao Downtown. Festivities will include cocktails, dinner, and appearances or performances by Festival artists including Annaleigh Ashford, Kyle MacLachlan, James Naughton, Mandy Patinkin,... Read More

New Play and Musical Development Initiative

Generating groundbreaking new work for the Festival
Season

As a generative, "soup-to-nuts" producing institution with offices in Williamstown and New York City, Williamstown Theatre Festival is engaged year-round in the development of groundbreaking new work, much of which is produced at the Festival or at other major theatres.   WTF develops and incubates new work through the New Play and Musical Development Initiative's programs, which include: Artists-in-Residence Twelve... Read More

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

THE RISE AND FALL OF MARCUS MONROE

July 24 - July 25 Goodrich Hall
2016 Season

Seen by millions on dozens of television shows, including The Late Show with David Letterman, Marcus Monroe comes to WTF, and pours out his soul into an hysterical and heartfelt performance portraying one man’s pursuit of fame as the world’s most notorious juggler. Come see The New York Times Critic’s Pick, whom New York Press calls, “the rock star of... Read More

Romance Novels for Dummies

July 20 - July 31 Main Stage
2016 Season

By Boo Killebrew
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
With Justin Long, Emily Lyons, Ashley Austin Morris, Connie Ray, Andrew Weems, Mary Wiseman

World Premiere Sisters Liz and Bernie couldn’t be more different: Liz is a good, Southern stay-at-home mom; Bernie is a flailing actress smoking and swearing her way through New York City. But when Liz is suddenly widowed, she and her young daughter move in with Bernie to start again. While Bernie challenges all of Liz’s assumptions about life, love and... Read More

Unknown Soldier

July 30 - August 9 Nikos Stage
2015 Season

Book & Lyrics by Daniel Goldstein
Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman
Directed by Trip Cullman

WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL In this haunting new musical created by writer Daniel Goldstein, Obie Award-winning composer Michael Friedman, and director Trip Cullman, Ellen Rabinowitz sets out to understand her past after she discovers an enigmatic photograph while cleaning out her deceased grandmother’s home. As she chases the truth about the soldier featured in the photo, Ellen is drawn into a... Read More

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