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THE TONY AWARD ® -RECOGNIZED  WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WRITER, PRODUCER, AND ACTOR  JEREMY O. HARRIS TO BE THE INAUGURAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WTF CREATIVE COLLECTIVE  PHOTOS OF HARRIS & RAPHAEL PICCIARELLI, WTF’S MANAGING DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION AVAILABLE HERE New York, NY (May 16, 2024) – Today, Managing Director, Strategy & Transformation Raphael Picciarelli announced that Jeremy... Read More

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February 14, 2023 Williamstown Theatre Festival and the town of Williamstown lost a one-of-a-kind friend last week. We at WTF are deeply saddened by the passing of beloved Festival actor, director, and playwright Steve Lawson. Steve died at age 73 of natural causes at his home in Williamstown on February 7, 2023. Referring to the omnipresent sprite from Shakespeare’s The... Read More

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OLYMPIA by Steve Lawson Sometimes it was only a gesture, but it gripped you. In Chekhov's The Seagull, a young girl offers the doctor a bouquet of flowers. Secretly in love with him, the housekeeper Paulina snarls: "Give me those flowers. Give me those flowers!" And she snatches the bouquet away, and furiously tears it to shreds. You weren't quite... Read More

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MARVELOUS MARGE by Steve Lawson Marge Champion led, to put it mildly, an extraordinary life. She just left us at the age of 101... and I was lucky enough to know her for nearly forty of those years. Flash back to 1982, when WTF artistic director Nikos Psacharopoulos persuaded Marge to work up choreography for a two-part celebration of Tennessee... Read More

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Jeanie Hackett, partner to the beloved Williamstown Theatre Festival founding artistic director Nikos Psacharopoulos, died on Saturday, June 27th, 2020, from lung cancer. She first came to WTF in 1978 and was, according to her close friends, forever in debt to the Festival for giving her a sense of purpose. She wrote The Actor's Chekhov which chronicles Nikos' work as... Read More