A Raisin in the Sun
June 25 - July 13 | Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move her family out of their cramped apartment on Chicago’s South Side. Walter Lee would rather use the funds to start a business and become an independent man. As their dispute intensifies, the powerful and destructive forces of 1950s America come knocking at the Youngers’ front door. Directed by Obie Award winner Robert O’Hara, Hansberry’s fearless interrogation of hope in the face of racial and economic strife is as provocative and powerful today as when it premiered.
Guarantee access to A Raisin in the Sun by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Grand Horizons
July 17 - July 28 | Main Stage
Bill and Nancy (Academy, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award nominee JoBeth Williams) have been happily married for fifty years. They can finish each other’s sentences and anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore, and sneeze. But there’s one thing nobody could have anticipated: Nancy wants out. As their adult sons Brian (Emmy Award nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Ben (Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski) descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community, the walls of the French family as-they-know-it come crumbling down. Directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman, Bess Wohl’s world premiere play takes an intimate, funny, and painful look at the nature of love over time.
Grand Horizons is a Williamstown Theatre Festival and Second Stage Theater Co-Commission. WTF Commissions are made possible through the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program.
Guarantee access to Grand Horizons by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Ghosts
July 31 - August 18 | Main Stage
With great happiness, Mrs. Alving (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman) welcomes her painter son Oswald home from years of living abroad. But when he starts to flirt with the family maid, she must intercede to save her son and herself from scandals present and past. Mrs. Alving struggles to find joy in a life bound by the strictures of Pastor Manders (Bernard White) and the spectral chains of mistakes from long ago. Directed by Carey Perloff, Henrik Ibsen‘s vivid and passionate play asks – even now – how far one mother, caught between duty and desire, can or should go to protect her family.
Guarantee access to Ghosts by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
A Human Being, of a Sort
June 26 - July 7 | Nikos Stage
It’s 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his own freedom depends on another black man’s captivity. Based on a true story, Jonathan Payne’s world premiere play, directed by Whitney White, exposes the complexity of power and compliance in a world where all lives do not seem to matter equally.
Guarantee access to A Human Being, of a Sort by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Selling Kabul
July 10 - July 20 | Nikos Stage
Taroon (Babak Tafti), a former interpreter for the US military, lives in hiding from the Taliban in his sister Afiya’s (Marjan Neshat) home in Kabul, Afghanistan. As Taroon restlessly awaits news from the hospital on the eve of his first child’s birth, his brother-in-law Jawid (Omar Metwally) works to protect him from dangers lurking outside the apartment walls. In this world premiere drama directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Sylvia Khoury examines loyalty, empty promises, and what it means to be left behind.
Selling Kabul is the recipient of the 2018 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, administered by Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Guarantee access to Selling Kabul by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Tell Me I’m Not Crazy
July 24 - August 3 | Nikos Stage
Forced into retirement and unsettled by the changing world around him, Sol Koening (Mark Blum) buys himself a gun—and his family is up in arms. His wife Diana (Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Jane Kaczmarek) thought they’d spend more time together and with the grandkids, but Sol’s new hobby puts a bullet in that plan. Meanwhile, their son Nate (Mark Feuerstein) is trying to be a good stay-at-home dad while his jet-setting wife Alisa (Nadine Malouf) climbs the corporate ladder, and school is calling with concerns about their kid. Directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Sharyn Rothstein’s world premiere comedy asks how one small firearm redefines a family and how two generations confront what it means to succeed and to sacrifice in America today.
Tell Me I’m Not Crazy is a Williamstown Theatre Festival Commission. WTF Commissions are made possible through the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program.
Guarantee access to Tell Me I’m Not Crazy by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Before the Meeting
August 7 - August 18 | Nikos Stage
Every day, Gail (Tony and Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Ellen Barkin) and the regular members of her early morning group set up for their meeting in the exact same way: Nicole (Midori Francis) makes the coffee, Gail arranges the chairs, and Ron (Jason Butler Harner) complains. As they forge a path toward sobriety and well-being, they come to rely on the routine and each other. But when Gail’s estranged granddaughter reopens old wounds, Gail knows it will take more than coffee, chairs, and companionship to keep her life from falling apart. Trip Cullman directs Adam Bock’s world premiere play, which examines how to truly make amends on the road to recovery.
Guarantee access to Before the Meeting by buying a Season Ticket Bundle now. Advance single ticket reservations will be available online beginning April 3. Select-your-seat single tickets will be available online and in-person beginning June 1.
All programming and casting subject to change.
Calendar of Events
Sunday
June 23
The actors are sleeping!WTF is going on all the time, just not today — check out the rest of the week for more Festival activities.
Monday
June 24
The actors are sleeping!WTF is going on all the time, just not today — check out the rest of the week for more Festival activities.
Tuesday
June 25
- 7:30 pm A Raisin in the Sun (First Curtain)
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
Wednesday
June 26
- 7:30 pm A Human Being, of a Sort (First Curtain)
A Human Being, of a Sort
WORLD PREMIERE By Jonathan Payne Directed by Whitney White With André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, Antonio Michael Woodard
Jun 26-Jul 7
Nikos Stage
It's 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his…
- 7:30 pm A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
Thursday
June 27
- 2:00 pm A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
- 7:30 pm A Raisin in the Sun (Festival LAWNch)
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
- 7:30 pm A Human Being, of a Sort (Festival LAWNch)
A Human Being, of a Sort
WORLD PREMIERE By Jonathan Payne Directed by Whitney White With André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, Antonio Michael Woodard
Jun 26-Jul 7
Nikos Stage
It's 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his…
Friday
June 28
- 8:00 pm A Human Being, of a Sort
A Human Being, of a Sort
WORLD PREMIERE By Jonathan Payne Directed by Whitney White With André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, Antonio Michael Woodard
Jun 26-Jul 7
Nikos Stage
It's 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his…
- 8:00 pm A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
Saturday
June 29
- 3:30 pm A Human Being, of a Sort
A Human Being, of a Sort
WORLD PREMIERE By Jonathan Payne Directed by Whitney White With André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, Antonio Michael Woodard
Jun 26-Jul 7
Nikos Stage
It's 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his…
- 3:30 pm A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
- 8:00 pm A Human Being, of a Sort
A Human Being, of a Sort
WORLD PREMIERE By Jonathan Payne Directed by Whitney White With André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, Antonio Michael Woodard
Jun 26-Jul 7
Nikos Stage
It's 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release, Smokey must grapple with the fact that his…
- 8:00 pm A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara With Francois Battiste, Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, S. Epatha Merkerson, Warner Miller
Jun 25-Jul 13
Main Stage
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic. Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move…
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Hours (June)
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Saturday 10am—5pm
Sunday: 11am—4pm
Hours (July-Aug)
Monday: Closed
Tuesday—Saturday: 10am—8pm
Sunday: 11am—7pm
Group Rates
For Main Stage performances, groups of 15-49 receive a 20% discount, 50-99 people receive a 25% discount and groups of 100 or more receive a 30% discount per ticket off the full ticket price. Subject to availability. For more information, please call 413.458.3253.
Rush Tickets
Rush tickets to our Main and Nikos Stage productions are subject to availability and may be purchased, if available, two hours prior to each performance at the Box Office—CASH ONLY. General adult rush tickets are $30 and youth student rush tickets are $20. Limit two general adult rush tickets per person. Limit one youth student rush ticket per student with valid student ID (youth student ID must be presented at the Box Office at time of purchase to obtain discount). WHEN YOU COME TO THE BOX OFFICE WINDOW, YOU MUST SAY THAT YOU WISH TO PURCHASE RUSH TICKETS. Rush ticket discount cannot be combined with any other offer and is subject to ticket availability.
EBT Card to Culture
EBT Card to Culture is a collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Executive Office of Health and Humans Services’ Department of Transitional Assistance. WTF is a proud participant in this new initiative. Anyone with a Massachusetts-issued EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) card may purchase $20 tickets (two tickets per EBT card) to performances on the Main and Nikos Stages (based on availability). Cannot be combined with any other offer or special events. Beginning June 1, contact the Box Office in person or via phone to purchase.
Processing Charges
Tickets purchased by telephone, mail, or online are subject to a $3 processing charge per ticket. Bundle purchasers pay one $5 processing charge per bundle. Groups pay one $15 processing charge per order. Single tickets purchased in-person at the WTF Box Office are not subject to processing charges.
Recording Devices
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Refund Policy
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Exchange Policy
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Gift Certificates
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Parking
Ample free parking is available in lots across the street from the ’62 Center and in a free parking garage behind the ’62 Center, accessible from Whitman Street, just off of Route 7.
Accessibility for Persons with a Disability
The Main Stage and Nikos Stage are both wheelchair accessible. When ordering tickets, please note if your party includes someone with limited mobility.
Sound Enhancement System
For performances on the Main Stage and Nikos Stage, portable sound enhancement devices are available at no charge for the hearing impaired.
Access
For more information on WTF’s access programs, please call our access coordinator Antonello Di Benedetto at 413.458.3253 or email antonello@wtfestival.org.
Latecomers
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