(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –  “A Great Wilderness,” a new play by Obie Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter, inaugurates the 2014 season on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, running from Wednesday, July 9, 2014, through Sunday, July 20.

Walt has devoted his life to counseling teenage boys out of their homosexuality at his remote Idaho wilderness camp. Pressured to accept one last client, his carefully constructed life begins to unravel with the arrival of Daniel. When Daniel disappears, Walt is forced to ask for help — both in finding the missing boy and reconciling his past with the present. As penned by Samuel D. Hunter — one of the rising stars of American theatre — “A Great Wilderness” navigates complex moral terrain, exploring the shifting motives and inconstant strength of our personal convictions.

The company of “A Great Wilderness” includes Mia Barron (WTF’s She Stoops to Conquer, Coast of Utopia), Jeffrey DeMunn (WTF’s The Price, The Walking Dead), Mia Dillon (WTF’s Once in a Lifetime, All Good Things), Kevin Geer (WTF’s Defying Gravity, American Gangster), and Tasha Lawrence (Good People, The Whale), with Stephan Amenta.  Long Wharf Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting directs.

Tickets for all Williamstown Theatre Festival productions can be purchased online at Williamstown Theatre Festival, by phone at 413-597-3400, or in person at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance Box Office at 1000 Main St (Route 2), Williamstown, MA 02167.