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 Last Metro” if Truffaut were unavailable to direct, but the Marx Brothers were.

Saturday, July 22 at 3PM &amp; 7PM
Sunday, July 23 at 3PM

TICKETS
$35 plus a $5 processing fee per ticket

Seating is general admission.

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Paris, ACTORS! contains loud sound effects of explosions and gun shots.
Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.
<h2>Main Stage Reading Series</h2>
Paris, ACTORS! is part of the 2023 Main Stage Reading Series. Get up close and personal with beloved Festival actors performing new and classic plays on our specially created intimate 2023 Festival Stage. Watch as the creative process unfolds before you and experience these works in exhilarating new ways.
<h2>2023 Festival Stage</h2>
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This summer, experience the Festival in a new, uniquely created environment that puts us all—artists and audience—onstage in one intimate setting together. The 2023 Festival Stage, reimagined on the stage of the theater by designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit, is home to our inimitable WTF Cabaret and a new Main Stage Reading Series featuring popular plays and esteemed Festival artists. Join us onstage for conviviality, fun, and a season of celebration!

“We are placing both the audience and the performers on stage together, making the auditorium the backdrop for this season. This gives everyone a unique opportunity to reflect on inhabiting this space together as creatives and spectators alike - consider the past, contemplate the future. It is also important, of course, to acknowledge that being present in the same space together is always a precious thing. We want to cherish this moment of being together and encourage you to take the joy you experience this season back home with you.” — 2023 Festival Stage Designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit

<h2>Artist bios</h2>
Hamish Linklater is a playwright whose credits include The Whirligig (New Group), The Cheats (Steep, Chicago), and The Vandal (the Flea), which has been performed in multiple countries and languages. His film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl, co-directed with Lily Rabe, starring Rabe, Ed Harris, and Henry Golding, will premiere in 2023. As an actor, his theater credits include Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino, as well as Lily Rabe, with whom he also performed in Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, & Seminar on Broadway opposite Alan Rickman. Hamish received an Obie Award for his performance in School for Lies (CSC) and has been nominated for Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics, and Drama League Awards. His television credits include a Critics Choice-nominated performance in Midnight Mass, Starz’s Gaslight, FX’s Legion, HBO’s Newsroom. Films include The Big Short, The Future, Magic in the Moonlight, and Dead for a Dollar.


Jack O’Brien directed his first Broadway production (Cock a Doodle Dandy) for APA/PHOENIX in 1969, and he’s still at it. He’s collected three Tonys along the way (Henry IV, Hairspray, and The Coast of Utopia), done operas (Il Trittico, Great Scott, Porgy and Bess, etc.) musicals (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Carousel, etc.), television (American Playhouse, Great Performances, etc.), run a regional theatre for 25 years (The Old Globe), and written two books published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (Jack Be Nimble and Jack in the Box), as well as two nightclub performances at 54 BELOW. Currently represented by the hit musical Shucked at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, if he’s slowing down, he hasn’t noticed it yet.


Lily Rabe will soon be seen in David E. Kelley’s Love and Death on HBO MAX alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, and Patrick Fugit. Rabe can currently be seen in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking alongside Harrison Ford. Rabe is currently in production on Apple TV+ Presumed Innocent with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga. She recently wrapped filming on Downtown Owl, co-directing and producing with her partner Hamish Linklater. She stars in the feature opposite Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Henry Golding, and Finn Wittrock. Among her many other film credits, Rabe starred in Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens and George Clooney’s The Tender Bar. Onstage, Rabe played Portia opposite Al Pacino in Dan Sullivan’s The Merchant of Venice (Broadway, The Public Theater), for which she received Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League nominations. Additional Broadway credits include Steel Magnolias, Seminar, The American Plan, and Heartbreak House. She has also starred onstage in Shakespeare in the Park at The Public’s Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Cymbeline, and Off-Broadway in A Doll’s House and Crimes of the Heart.


Gus Birney recently completed a run of The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window, which started at BAM and transferred to Broadway. Off-Broadway: The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theater Festival), Connected (59E59). TV: Shining Vale (Saturn Award Nominee), Dickinson, The Mist, Indsatiable, Jessica Jones, The Blacklist, Bull, Blue Bloods, Law and Order. Film: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), Rainy Day in New York, Here and Now, Plan B (Hulu). Upcoming: Happiness for Beginners (Netflix), Asleep in My Palm, Three Birthdays.


Noah Robbins has been seen on television most notably in Hulu's UP HERE, Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and on Amazon's Forever. His feature credits include The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Week Of, Set It Up, Indignation, and Miss Sloane. He has also appeared in TV Land's Younger, Showtime's Masters of Sex, and Fox's Grease Live. Notable theater credits include his Broadway debut in Brighton Beach Memoirs, the Broadway revival of Arcadia, Secrets of the Trade, The Twenty-Seventh Man, The Vandal, Clarkston, and the title role in the revival of Master Harold... and the Boys. Noah most recently appeared on Broadway in To Kill a Mockingbird opposite Jeff Daniels. He will next be seen on screen in the feature film Project Artemis with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.


Jordan Tyson’s work can be seen in the Netflix series The Chair and film Vampires vs the Bronx. Recently she performed in the world premiere productions of Lempicka musical at La Jolla Playhouse and The Notebook musical at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. She’s also working on her debut EP. <a href="https://www.jordantyson.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jordantyson.com</a> | @curlybroad


Jay O. Sanders returns to Williamstown for the first time since his summer with the Second Company in 1975. He has just finished the run of Primary Trust at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater. Before that, he played Nick Laine in Girl From The North Country on Broadway, the title roles in Uncle Vanya at Hunter Theater Project (2019 Drama Desk Award) and Cyrano de Bergerac at the Guthrie, and all 12 plays of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama, (Hunter, Public, European and World Tours), and Kent in King Lear at the Delacorte. Playwright; Unexplored Interior: This Is Rwanda. Film; Day After Tomorrow, JFK, Angels in the Outfield, Tumbleweeds, Bardo, When You Finish Saving The World. TV; True Detective, Sneaky Pete, The Sinner, Roseanne. Sanders has also narrated many PBS documentaries.


Michael Stuhlbarg. Film credits include: A Serious Man (Golden Globe Nomination), The Shape of Water, Call Me by Your Name, The Post, Men in Black 3, Shirley, Arrival, Hugo, Lincoln, Steve Jobs, Trumbo, Miles Ahead, Miss Sloane, Pawn Sacrifice, Blue Jasmine, Cut Bank, Bones and All, Hitchcock, Seven Psychopaths, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Doctor Strange. TV credits include: Your Honor, Dopesick (Emmy Nomination), The Staircase, Traitors, The Looming Tower (Emmy Nomination), Fargo, Boardwalk Empire. Broadway credits include: The Pillowman (Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Invention of Love, Cabaret, Taking Sides, Saint Joan, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector. Off-Broadway credits include: title roles in Socrates, Hamlet, Richard II; Measure for Pleasure, Twelfth Night, A Dybbuk, The Winter’s Tale (all with the Public Theater); The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic Theater Company—Obie, Callaway Awards). Travesties (Williamstown), Long Day’s Journey into Night (American Repertory Theater). BFA—The Juilliard School. Upcoming film: The Instigators.


Jeremiah Maestas recently a proud Production Assistant at Shucked on Broadway! Some favorite credits: Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater); The Refugees (ART / NY); Asylum Song (HERE ARTS), The Beyoncé (ART / NY), Chickens in the Yard (JACK Brooklyn), Gluten! (59E59); Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo); Earthquake Sun (San Diego Rep.); Long Day’s Journey into Night (The Warner CT); The Elephant Man, Suddenly Last Summer, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Shape of Things (TheatreWorks NMCT); Love! Valour! Compassion! (Diversionary); Jesus Hopped the “A” Train (LPT); In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play (Whitman BC). Associate Director for The Hard Problem (Lincoln Center Theater). Adjunct Theater Faculty, Quinnipiac University. MFA, Brooklyn College / BA, University of San Diego. Proud Actors’ Equity Member.

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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 home. In the wake of their father’s death and a changing Russia, the women must face the reality of their choices and take responsibility for their uncertain futures.

Saturday, July 29 at 3PM &amp; 7PM
Sunday, July 30 at 3PM

TICKETS
$35 plus a $5 processing fee per ticket

Seating is general admission.

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.

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<h2>Main Stage Reading Series</h2>
Three Sisters is part of the 2023 Main Stage Reading Series. Get up close and personal with beloved Festival actors performing new and classic plays on our specially created intimate 2023 Festival Stage. Watch as the creative process unfolds before you and experience these works in exhilarating new ways.
<h2>2023 Festival Stage</h2>
<figure><img src="http://wtfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CONCEPT-REVISION-READING-1-scaled.jpg" alt="Main Stage Reading Series Rendering" /><figcaption>Artist Rendering of the 2023 Festival Stage set up for the Main Stage Reading Series</figcaption></figure>
This summer, experience the Festival in a new, uniquely created environment that puts us all—artists and audience—onstage in one intimate setting together. The 2023 Festival Stage, reimagined on the stage of the theater by designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit, is home to our inimitable WTF Cabaret and a new Main Stage Reading Series featuring popular plays and esteemed Festival artists. Join us onstage for conviviality, fun, and a season of celebration!

“We are placing both the audience and the performers on stage together, making the auditorium the backdrop for this season. This gives everyone a unique opportunity to reflect on inhabiting this space together as creatives and spectators alike - consider the past, contemplate the future. It is also important, of course, to acknowledge that being present in the same space together is always a precious thing. We want to cherish this moment of being together and encourage you to take the joy you experience this season back home with you.” — 2023 Festival Stage Designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit
<h2>Artist Bios</h2>
Kristjan Thor is a critically-acclaimed director of film, theater, and immersive experiences. Over the course of a twenty-year career, Thor has directed and produced two feature films, many theater, short film and video projects as well as leading and managing various types of live events. Kristjan is also the co-founder and creator of "The Blackout Experience," the world's most notorious immersive fear experience. More recently, he directed Preparedness by Hillary Miller and Hart Island by Tracy Weller. He has taught at NYU NYCDA, where he is currently heading the new media program. Additionally, Kristjan often works as an acting coach for various industry professionals.

Henry Wolfe Gummer is a musician based in Los Angeles. For over a decade he has been releasing his own music under the name Henry Wolfe and working with other artists as a producer. His acting credits include The Seagull at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (dir. Mike Nichols) and the film The Good Shepherd (dir. Robert DeNiro). A graduate of Dartmouth College and a native son of the Berkshires, Henry is thrilled to be participating in the Williamstown Theater Festival alongside his three sisters. 

Mamie Gummer. In 2005, Gummer made her off-Broadway debut with the premiere of Mr. Marmalade, in which she won a Theatre World Award. Previous credits include The Classic Stage Company’s Uncle Vanya (Lucille Lortel Nomination) and The School for Lies, The Water’s Edge (Lucille Lortel Nomination) for The Second Stage, and the Tony Award-nominated revival of Les Liasisons dangereuses. In TV Mamie Gummer can recently be seen in the HBO MAX series "DMZ" from Ava Duvernay, opposite Rosario Dawson. Previous credits include season 3 of HBO's "True Detective," recurring in the Nat-Geo series "The Right Stuff," the 8-part series "The Collection," and as the lead of the CW's "Emily Owens, M.D." She also appeared on WGN's hit series "Manhattan" as well as CBS' "The Good Wife." On the feature side she can be seen in Sony's "Ricki and the Flash" opposite Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, in "End of the Tour" opposite Jason Segel, and "Cake" opposite Jennifer Aniston.

Grace Gummer. Grace Gummer’s recent television credits include leading roles in Peacock's "Dr. Death," A Teacher for FX for Hulu, and the Emmy-winning series "Mr. Robot" for USA. She can most recently be seen starring in Showtime’s limited series "Let the Right One In." Grace is also known for her work on HBO’s groundbreaking series "The Newsroom" and "American Horror Story" for FX over several seasons, as well as her work in "Confirmation" opposite Kerry Washington, also for HBO. Grace appeared in films Frances Ha!, directed by Noah Baumbach, and The Homesman, directed by Tommy Lee Jones. She can also be seen in the independent feature comedy The Long Dumb Road directed by Hannah Fidell. The latest of her many theater credits include lead roles in Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day for The Public Theater, and Lila Neugebauer's Mary Page Marlowe for Second Stage Theater.

Louisa Jacobson. Off-Broadway: Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb + PlayCo). Regional: Trayf (Geffen Playhouse), Romeo &amp; Juliet (The Old Globe), Native Son (Yale Rep), The Member of The Wedding (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Currently, Louisa can be seen playing the role of Marian Brook in HBO’s "The Gilded Age", an original series from "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes. Training: Yale School of Drama + British American Drama Academy.

Juliana Canfield. Off-Broadway theatre credits include Fefu and her Friends (TFANA), Sunday (Atlantic Theatre Company), The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW), He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (TFANA), Zurich (Colt Coeur). Film/TV credits include “Succession” (HBO), “The Calling” (Peacock), “Y: The Last Man” (FX), “Amazing Stories” (Amblin/Apple), The Assistant, On the Rocks, The Neighbor’s Window (short, Academy Award Winner). BA: Yale College. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Robert Sean Leonard. Born in New Jersey, Robert Sean Leonard began acting at age 14 at The Public Theater in New York. Leonard won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Invention of Love in 2001. His theater credits include At Home at the Zoo at the Signature Theatre and Richard II at the Old Globe Theatre. Prior to that, he appeared on Broadway as 'Jules' in Sondheim’s acclaimed revival of Sunday in the Park with George and also starred as 'Atticus Finch' in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London. He has performed in Broadway productions of The Invention of Love (Tony Award), Long Day’s Journey into Night (Tony nomination), Born Yesterday, The Violet Hour, The Music Man, The Iceman Cometh, Arcadia, Candida (Tony nomination), Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Speed of Darkness, Breaking the Code, and Brighton Beach Memoirs. He also appeared in the West End production of Our Town. Robert made his film debut at age 19 in the acclaimed Dead Poets Society. Other film credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Age of Innocence, The I Inside, Mr. &amp; Mrs. Bridge, Swing Kids, Tape, Chelsea Walls, and Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco. Robert is perhaps best known for playing ‘Dr. James Wilson’ alongside Hugh Laurie on the iconic Fox medical drama "House", for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In addition, he has had recurring roles on the TNT series "Falling Skies" and the NBC series "Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit."

Omar Metwally is happy to be returning to Williamstown Theater Festival. His theater work includes Guards at the Taj (Obie award, Atlantic Theater Company), Epiphany (Lincoln Center), American Hero (Williamstown), Sixteen Wounded (Tony nomination), The Fever Chart, As You Like It (Public Theatre), Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf). Television: "Big Sky" (ABC,) "The Affair" (Showtime,) "Mr Robot" (USA,) "RAMY" (Hulu,) "Lisey’s Story" (Apple,) "Treadstone" (USA,) among others. Omar is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. 

Dario Ladani. Dario stars in Jason Katims’ new series "Dear Edward" on AppleTV+. New York Theatre: Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Finalist); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); Juliet &amp; Romeo (The Brick). Boston: Hand to God (SpeakEasy); Welcome to Arroyo’s (Circuit Theatre). International: La storia di colapesce (Trinacria Theatre Company). Reading + Workshop: The Public, Two River, Portland Stage, The Huntington, Chautauqua. Film: The Bull Cage (Best Actor, NY Indie Shorts Awards); Undercover (dir. Wes Palmer). Up Next: Shadow Wrangler (dir. Grace Rex). Education + Training: Northeastern University | British American Drama Academy | Yale School of Drama. @darioladani

Edmund Donovan can most recently be seen alongside Grace Van Patten in the Hulu series "Tell Me Lies." Earlier this year, he shot the independent feature Your Monster. Prior to that, Edmund made his Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated Clyde’s opposite Uzo Aduba. Previous stage credits include Samuel Hunter’s play Greater Clements, which earned Edmund a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama Desk, and an Obie. Television credits include "Hightown" (Starz), "High Fidelity" (Hulu), "Betty" (HBO), and an arc on "Gossip Girl" (HBO MAX). Up next is Alex Garland’s Civil War for A24. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and is based in New York City.

John Rothman. This is John Rothmans 3rd summer at Williamstown.  First as an assistant director under Nikos Psacharopoulos in ’76, then in Richard Nelson’s Rodney’s Wife in 2004. He has appeared in many plays on and Off Broadway,  starred in numerous films and television series including the critically acclaimed Amazon series "One Mississippi", Prime opposite Meryl Streep, and Scott Z. Burns The Report.  Next up John will be seen as Mortimer Sackler in the Netflix limited series "Painkiller" as well as portraying Alfred A Knopf in the 2nd season of "Julia" on MAX this fall.

Dylan Baker. Theatre: Medea (BAM), Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Front Page, The Audience, God of Carnage, November, Mauritius, La Bête (Tony &amp; Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard, Homebody/Kabul, Not About Heroes (Obie Award). Film: Selma; Happiness (IFP Gotham Award &amp; Independent Spirit Award nomination); Anchorman 2; Spiderman 2 and 3; Secretariat; Revolutionary Road; Across the Universe; Hide and Seek; Head of State; Road to Perdition; Trick ‘r Treat; Disclosure; The Long Walk Home; Fido; Along Came a Spider; Thirteen Days; Delirious; Planes Trains &amp; Automobiles.. Television: “Inside Man,” “Hunters,” “Little Women,” “Homeland,” “The Americans,”“I’m Dying Up Here,” “The Laramie Project,” “The Good Wife” (Three Emmy Award Nominations), “Confirmation,” “Damages,” “Murder One”.  Feature Film Directorial Debut: 23 Blast.

Jo Yang is pleased to join Williamstown Theatre Festival in the reading of this classic play. She hails from NYC where she was most recently seen in the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s first BIPOC Marathon of One Act Plays. She originated the role of Sook Ja, the youngest of an elderly trio bred as a Korean deep-sea diver, in productions of Celine Song’s Endlings at the American Repertory Theater and the New York Theatre Workshop. Additionally, she has worked off Broadway at theatres including 2nd Stage, The Public, Rattlestick Theater, Urban Stages and regionally at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle’s Group Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theater, and Florida Repertory Theatre, among others. Recent TV: “Awkwafina-Nora from Queens”, “The Equalizer”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “The Affair”. As she’s the last hold out on social media, more of her tv/film credits can be found at: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946009/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946009/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2</a>

Sean Finnegan. Sean is a New York based actor originally from Williamstown, Massachusetts where he first found his love for acting here at the Williamstown Theatre festival. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2019 majoring in theatre and minoring in classical studies. When he is not acting, he is an avid outdoorsman, taking many trips over the years to different wild parts of North America.  He is so excited to be back at the Williamstown Theatre Festival again.

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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.



TICKETS
$15 with no processing fee per ticket

Seating is general admission. Reservations required.

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.

Friday, July 14 at 3PM:
<a href="https://wtfestival.org/fridays3-nick-and-the-prize-fighter/">Nick and the Prizefighter</a>
By Kamilah Bush
Directed by Kristolyn Lloyd
Composed by Brittany Campell
Featuring Dane DeHaan, Amber Iman, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and dL Sams

Selah Thompson is the caregiver for her famous playwright father, Forest Thompson. Nick Beerman, a young writer and dramaturg is tasked with helping Forest complete his life's work before the clock runs out. Selah must fight for control of her father's work and legacy- and find her own rhythm as she prepares to face the world without him.

Friday, July 21 at 3PM:
<a href="https://wtfestival.org/fridays3-plunder-lightning/">Plunder and Lightning</a>
By Cindy Lou Johnson
Directed by Portia Krieger
Featuring John Pankow, Annie Golden, Johanna Day, Nina Grollman, and Samantha Bohrer

Tina and George’s preparations for an important party are wildly derailed when their daughter Rikki shows up on the run from the cops, and Tina’s stepmother, Lola, threatens to levy charges of elder abuse. A dark comedy about greed and the urgent power of love, Plunder and Lightning examines the price to be paid for burying our sins—in the field out back.

Friday, July 28 at 3PM:
<a href="https://wtfestival.org/chapters-of-a-floating-life/">Chapters of a Floating Life</a> - <a href="https://wtfestival.org/clarence-coos-chapters-of-a-floating-life-receives-2023-l-arnold-weissberger-new-play-award/">Winner of the 2023 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award!</a>
By Clarence Coo (Recipient of the 2023 Jay Harris Commission)
Directed by Jennifer Chang
Featuring Teresa Avia Lim, Grant Chang, James Chen, Diana Oh, and Leah Getz

Two couples from China try to make ends meet in New York City in the wake of the Second World War. One husband and wife live uptown, obsessed with a past of poetry, painting, and gardens. Another pair face the day-to-day reality of keeping a Chinatown restaurant in business. Their worlds, previously separated by class and education, converge when the two women find each other in Central Park and fall under the spell of the Chinese language.

Friday, August 4 at 3PM:
<a href="https://wtfestival.org/wipeout/">Wipeout</a>
By Aurora Real de Asua
Directed by Maggie Burrows
Featuring Emily Kuroda, Becky Ann Baker, and Candy Buckley

It’s Gary’s 77th birthday and all she wants to do is surf. The only problem? She’s never stepped foot on a board before. But with the help of a hot-rod teenage surf instructor and the company of her two best friends, Gary is about to go on the ride of her life. As the three women navigate the currents of the Pacific, they must confront seven decades of secrets and sacrifices, not to mention the odd jellyfish or two.

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On Sunday, July 16 at 3PM, for one performance only, Broadway legend and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti graces the Main Stage to share songs from her illustrious career. A long-time friend of the Festival, Laura also starred as Perdita in the WTF production of The Winter’s Tale (2001) and last performed for WTF audiences at the 2020 Gala. A star on stage and screen, Laura’s career spans over two decades since she took Broadway by storm at the age of 18. Laura has earned two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and garnered five Tony Award nominations.



Join us at The Williams Inn after the benefit concert for a celebratory toast to kick off the season!

Proceeds from Laura Benanti in Concert benefit Williamstown Theatre Festival.

TICKETS
$125 Prime Orchestra
$90 First Balcony
$80 Rear & Side Orchestra
$60 Second Balcony
Plus a $5 processing fee per ticket

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.

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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!


<h2>Breaking the Binary Theatre</h2>
Breaking the Binary Theatre is a new work development and community building hub wherein transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) artists come together to reclaim our artistic license and liberty on our own terms in spaces built by and for us. Breaking the Binary Theatre hosts a number of programs and initiatives, including our flagship artistic event each October: the all-TNB2S+ Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/breakingthebinarytheatre/">@BreakingTheBinaryTheatre</a> on Instagram. <a href="www.btb-nyc.com">www.btb-nyc.com</a>.

TWITCH

By Liliana Padilla (they/them)
Directed by Jack Ferver (they/them)
Dramaturgy by Desiree S. Mitton (she/they)
Produced by Breaking the Binary Theatre (Founding Artistic Director, George Strus (they/he))

Following their collaboration as part of the inaugural Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival in October of 2022, playwright Liliana Padilla (they/them), director Jack Ferver (they/them), dramaturg Desiree S. Mitton (she/they) are reuniting with several of their BTB collaborators to dive further into the world of TWITCH as a part of Breaking the Binary Theatre's 2023 Falco and Steinman Residency Program.

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<h2>NIGHTDRIVE</h2>
Nightdrive makes rigorously irreverent, demandingly vulnerable, borderline-impossible plays that use indelible moments of stagecraft to build thrillingly personal relationships with audiences. Their work includes an apocalypse around a campfire (The Grown-Ups, Time Out New York’s Top 10 NYC Theatre Productions of 2021); a live immersive alien movie (Alien Nation); a five-dimensional community meeting with a full pancake breakfast cooked on stage (Providence, RI); a haunted rock concert (Thank You Sorry); and a hybrid comic book with interactive animation (Apathy Boy). They’ve been semifinalists for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and resident artists at Pipeline Theatre Company and Ars Nova.

Society
By Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques

Society is part play, part participatory focus group, part collective fever dream, presented around a giant conference table. You can’t believe they still ask you back in for more sessions—it feels like you’ve been going there forever. But the money’s decent, and it costs so much to live in this city. And there are snacks. It’s supposed to be a different group in there every time, but a couple people are starting to look familiar. Maybe you’re just imagining things. But they’re staring at you, too, right?

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<h2>Waterwell/Plate Spinner Productions</h2>
Waterwell is a group of artists, educators and producers dedicated to telling engrossing stories that deliberately wrestle with complex civic questions in unexpected ways. WW creates productions that are creatively daring and emotionally potent to cultivate connections across real and perceived divides. <a href="www.waterwell.org">www.waterwell.org</a>

Plate Spinner Productions is a production company working across entertainment media. PSP is committed to developing, nurturing, and producing unique and dynamic stories that challenge artists and audiences to question the status quo, and believe that a fair and equitable world is possible. <a href="www.platespinnerproductions.com">www.platespinnerproductions.com</a>

A Good Day to Me Not to You
By Lameece Issaq (she/her)
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans (she/her)
A co-production of Waterwell and Plate Spinner Productions

Writer and actor Lameece Issaq teams up with two-time Obie winner Lee Sunday Evans on her riotously funny and gut-wrenching new play about a 40-whatever dental lab tech who gets fired and moves into St. Agnes Residence, a woman's boarding house run by nuns. While there, she must come to terms with her unfulfilled path to motherhood, the untimely death of her sister, and earth-shaking news about her beloved nephew - all while fending off her unpredictable and sometimes deranged cohabitants. Performed by Issaq in a story-telling tour-de-force.

Artist-in-residence workshops

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Award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj showcases and prepares new material for his latest work-in-progress. Hasan is one of the most in-demand comedians on screen and stage today. Earlier this year, he was the guest host of The Daily Show, and he is also the host and creator of Netflix’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning weekly comedy show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and the Netflix comedy specials Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King and The King's Jester.



PERFORMANCES
Saturday, July 8 at 3PM &amp; 8PM
Sunday, July 9 at 2PM &amp; 7PM

TICKETS
$75 Prime Orchestra
$45 Rear &amp; Side Orchestra and First Balcony
$30 Second Balcony
Plus a $5 processing fee per ticket

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Please note: This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of phones, smart watches and accessories, will not be permitted in the performance space.

Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches and accessories will be secured in individual Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times, and can access them in the lobby. All devices will be re-secured in Yondr pouches before returning to the performance space.

Anyone seen using a device (phone, smart watch or accessories) during the performance will be escorted out of the venue.

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.

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HASAN MINHAJ: Experiment Time

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The Pillowman is part of the Main Stage Reading Series this summer.

They say life imitates art—but what happens when that art is horror? In a totalitarian dictatorship, young author Katurian is interrogated by the authorities after a string of child murders bears a striking resemblance to his grisly short stories. When his brother admits to the murders and implicates Katurian and their troubled childhood, more complicated questions arise—is it really possible to separate art from artist? Widely regarded as one of the greatest plays of the last 25 years, The Pillowman is as dark as comedies get and is sure to keep audiences glued to the edge of their seats.



Saturday, August 5 at 3PM &amp; 7PM
Sunday, August 6 at 3PM

TICKETS
$35 plus a $5 processing fee per ticket

Seating is general admission.

Program, casting, and <a href="https://wtfestival.org/covid-19-2023/">COVID-19 protocols</a> are subject to change.

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.
<h2>Main Stage Reading Series</h2>
The Pillowman is part of the 2023 Main Stage Reading Series. Get up close and personal with beloved Festival actors performing new and classic plays on our specially created intimate 2023 Festival Stage. Watch as the creative process unfolds before you and experience these works in exhilarating new ways.
<h2>2023 Festival Stage</h2>
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This summer, experience the Festival in a new, uniquely created environment that puts us all—artists and audience—onstage in one intimate setting together. The 2023 Festival Stage, reimagined on the stage of the theater by designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit, is home to our inimitable WTF Cabaret and a new Main Stage Reading Series featuring popular plays and esteemed Festival artists. Join us onstage for conviviality, fun, and a season of celebration!

“We are placing both the audience and the performers on stage together, making the auditorium the backdrop for this season. This gives everyone a unique opportunity to reflect on inhabiting this space together as creatives and spectators alike - consider the past, contemplate the future. It is also important, of course, to acknowledge that being present in the same space together is always a precious thing. We want to cherish this moment of being together and encourage you to take the joy you experience this season back home with you.” — 2023 Festival Stage Designers Se Hyun Oh and Emily Schmit
<h2>Artist Bios</h2>
Lila Neugebauer is an award-winning stage and screen director. Broadway: Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery. Recent Off-Broadway credits include Simon Stephens’ Morning Sun (MTC), Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage), Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife/The Zoo Story (Signature Theatre), Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and Zoe Kazan’s After the Blast (Lincoln Center). As co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova) and Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons) among others. Lila is an alum of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, an Ensemble Studio Theatre member, New Georges Affiliated Artist, and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. Obie Award, Drama Desk Sam Norkin Special Award, and Princess Grace Award recipient. TV: “Maid” (Netflix), “The Last Thing He Told Me” (Apple TV+), “The Sex Lives of College Girls” and “Room 104” (HBO Max). Lila’s directorial feature debut Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry (Oscar nomination) is available on AppleTV+.

Quincy Tyler Bernstine. NY Theater (selected): Marys Seacole (Lortel Award); Our Lady of 121st Street; The Amateurs; As You Like It; Small Mouth Sounds; Peer Gynt; Grand Concourse; 10 out of 12; The Nether; Mr. Burns; Neva; We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…; born bad; Red-Handed Otter; Family Week; Ruined (2009 OBIE, Clarence Derwent, Audelco Awards); In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play); The Misanthrope; A Small, Melodramatic Story; Matt &amp; Ben, ‘nami; (I am) Nobody’s Lunch; The Ladies.  Film (selected): The Tender Bar, White Noise, Manchester By The Sea, Easy Living, Still Alice, Ned Rifle, Red Hook Summer, While We’re Young, Hungry Hearts, Rachel Getting Married.  TV (selected): “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” “Evil,” “The Equalizer,” “Julia,” “Power Book II: Ghost,” “Power,”  “Ray Donovan,” “The Code,” “Modern Love,” “High Maintenance,” “The Good Wife,” “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “Madame Secretary,” “The Leftovers,” “The Strain,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “Law &amp; Order: SVU/Criminal Intent.”  Education: Brown (BA), UCSD (MFA).   2019 OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Performance, Cullman 3rd Award for Extraordinary Creativity (LCT 2019); 2015 Lilly Award, Charles Bowden Award (New Dramatists).

Michael Chernus. On the big screen, Michael has had numerous memorable roles in films like Men in Black 3, Captain Phillips, Spiderman: Homecoming, The Bourne Legacy,  Werewolves Within, Mistress America and co-starring opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher. On television, Michael can currently be seen starring as "Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale" in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series “Severance”. He is perhaps most well known for playing Piper's brother "Cal Chapman" in the groundbreaking Netflix series “Orange is the New Black”. He was also a series regular on the cult favorite Amazon original series “Patriot” as well as the World War II drama “Manhattan”. Most recently he starred opposite Rachel Weisz in the limited series “Dead Ringers” for Amazon. On stage, Chernus won the 2011 OBIE award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for his work in the Lisa Kron play “In the Wake” at the Public Theater. At Williamstown he has previously appeared on the Nikos Stage in “Create Fate” (2005) and “Touch(ed)” (2011).

Alison Pill recently starred in the independent feature Eric Larue, directed by Michael Shannon, and starring opposite Alexander Skasgård and Judy Greer, which just premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2023 to terrific reviews. She can currently be seen starring in "Hello Tomorrow!" opposite Billy Crudup for Apple TV+ and will next star in the independent feature film, Young Werther opposite Douglas Booth. She also starred in the CBS All Access series "Star Trek: Picard", Alex Garland’s FX limited series "Devs", and the Amazon series "Them". Pill’s other television work includes Ryan Murphy’s "American Horror Story: Cult", the ABC drama "The Family", the acclaimed Aaron Sorkin HBO series "The Newsroom", the HBO drama "In Treatment", "The Book of Daniel", and "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Recent film credits include Peter Hedges film The Same Storm, All My Puny Sorrows, which premiered at TIFF in 2021, and the Oscar-nominated biopic, Vice, written and directed by Adam McKay, opposite Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell. Alison can also be seen in Miss Sloane, Hail Caesar!, Snowpiercer, Goon, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Milk, Dan in Real Life, Dear Wendy, and Pieces of April. Alison starred on Broadway in the Tony-nominated production of Three Tall Women, written by Edward Albee, directed by Joe Mantello, and opposite Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and for a Lucille Lortel Award for On the Mountain. She won The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble in the U.S. premiere of The Distance from Here.

Danny Wolohan. BROADWAY: Camelot, Macbeth, West Side Story,To Kill a Mockingbird. OFF-BROADWAY: The Low Road, Assassins, An Octoroon, The Flick, Pocatello, Patron Saint. Regional: What the Constitution Means to Me, Court Life, Gnit. LCT3: Verité. TV: “When They See Us,” “The Blacklist,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Law &amp; Order: SVU,” “Elementary,” and “Veep.” FILM: White Noise.

Erica Ito. Erica can be heard as Clara on the My Heart Says Go Studio Cast Recording alongside Jessie Mueller and Javier Muñoz. Theatrical credits include Rock Medea at Joe’s Pub and 42nd Street at Bucks County Playhouse. You can catch Erica weekly on the actual play RPG series Tabletopnotch and on Seaweed Brain: A Percy Jackson Podcast. BFA: The University of Michigan. Mahalo nui loa, Telsey!

The Pillowman

Bernstine, Quincy

Michael Chernus

Alison Pill, Photo by Catie Laffoon

Danny Wolohan HS

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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 a touching, unexpectedly funny, and relatable musical exploring life’s beauty when we take the time to appreciate it.

William Finn, the mastermind behind Broadway & Off Broadway hits like The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, continues to captivate audiences with his emotive storytelling and soul-stirring melodies. BSC and WTF are thrilled to present one of his most heartfelt creations, A New Brain.

William Finn’s musical genius shines through in every note. From infectious, toe-tapping tunes to heartrending ballads that tug at your heartstrings, A New Brain delivers an emotional rollercoaster that leaves audiences laughing, crying and singing along.



August 16 - September 10
Boyd-Quinson Stage at Barrington Stage Company (30 Union St, Pittsfield, MA)

Tickets
$35-$87 plus a $4 processing fee per ticket

To purchase tickets to A New Brain, please call the Box Office at Barrington Stage Company at (413) 236-8888 or visit <a href="https://barringtonstageco.org/Season-Shows/new-brain/">BSC's website</a>. Please note: The WTF Box Office will not be selling tickets to this production.

A New Brain

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All 2023 Programs

Paris, ACTORS!

Three Sisters

Fridays@3 Reading Series

WTF CABARET

Laura Benanti in Concert

Artist-in-residence workshops

HASAN MINHAJ: Experiment Time

The Pillowman

A New Brain

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All 2023 Programs

Paris, ACTORS!

Three Sisters

Fridays@3 Reading Series

WTF CABARET

Laura Benanti in Concert

Artist-in-residence workshops

HASAN MINHAJ: Experiment Time

The Pillowman

A New Brain

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