Skip to Main Content

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

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE 2016 SUMMER SEASON


Season

Press Contact: Rick Miramontez / Molly Barnett / Matthew Troillett rick@omdkc.com / molly@omdkc.com / matthew@omdkc.com 212 695 7400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE TONY® AWARD-WINNING W I L L I A M S T O W N T H E A T R E F E S T I V A L ANNOUNCES A NEW INITIATIVE AND SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE... Read More

Ménage à Deux with Tom Fontana & Susie Essman

July 7 The Log
2016 Season

Long-time Festival favorites Tom Fontana (writer/creator of Borgia, OZ) and the hilarious Susie Essman (HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) come together to portray two of France’s literary greats. Sip your wine and be a fly on the wall for this reading of a dialogue between Victor Hugo and Mademoiselle Mars. That is, if Tom and Susie stay on script! Reserve your... Read More

Cost of Living

June 29 - July 10 Nikos Stage
2016 Season

By Martyna Majok
Directed by Jo Bonney
With Rebecca Naomi Jones, Gregg Mozgala, Wendell Pierce, Katy Sullivan

World Premiere Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney directs the world premiere of Martyna Majok’s play about four very different people, in four very different circumstances, each trying to get by. Eddie (Wendell Pierce), an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John (Gregg Mozgala), a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires over-worked Jess (Rebecca... Read More

Legacy

July 1 - July 12 Nikos Stage
2015 Season

By Daniel Goldfarb
Directed by Oliver Butler

WORLD PREMIERE Tony Award-nominee Jessica Hecht and Drama Desk Award-winner Eric Bogosian couple up for the world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's funny and turbulent Legacy. When renowned novelist Neil Abrams (Bogosian) is panned by The New York Times, he reopens the conversation with his wife Suzanne (Hecht) about starting a family. As Neil copes with feeling increasingly antiquated and culturally... Read More

Spectre Bridegroom, The

August 9 - August 23 The Second Company
1981 Season

Author: Fontana Tom
Director: Schachter, Stephen
In Repertory, 1981 Season.

Find Us

By Phone: (413) 458-3200
By Email: wtfinfo@wtfestival.org
By Snail Mail: PO Box 517
Williamstown, MA 01267