“The Annex” is a new Festival venue in the North Adams Gateway Center, located at 245 State Road in North Adams, MA. We are converting a former Rent-A-Center into a flexible performance space for an intimate, non-traditional theatre experience. For W71, it will be home to four core productions. Above is a behind-the-scenes shot that Production Director Adrian White took a week ago as the Williamstown Production team and our friends at Moresi & Associates and Hill Engineers start to renovate the
Not About Nightingales
Director Robert O'Hara returns to Williamstown.
W71
Hello, I’m Jeremy O. Harris. And it is my pleasure to welcome you to Williamstown for my inaugural year as Creative Director. A “theatre festival” in 2025 is a curious proposition for a litany of reasons. First of all, what is theatre? And who is it for? A theatre festival in the Berkshires is an entirely different proposition altogether because it brings to mind a history of summer stock and communities that are quite foreign to those that I was raised within. These thoughts and queries, to m
Spirit of the People
On February 10, Jeremy O. Harris previewed an excerpt of his new play Spirit of the People with a reading at the Guggenheim, the culmination of a workshop that was part of the production’s Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Potash Hill. There was another reading of the excerpt at MASS MoCA for audiences in the Berkshires the evening before. Following the excerpt, Harris, the inaugural Creative Director of Williamstown's Creative Collective, was joined onstage by Raphael Picciarelli, Managin
