Tag Archive for Williamstown Theatre Festival

Turgenev Drama Concludes WTF’s Main Stage Season

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, with a world premiere translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, brings down the curtain on the Main Stage season at Williamstown Theatre Festival, with a production running from Wednesday, August 1, 2012, through August 19, 2012. The play is being given…

Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson to Star in Williamstown’s ‘Elephant Man’

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” will transform himself into the hideously deformed title character of The Elephant Man when Bradley Cooper, star of Hollywood comedies including The Hangover and Wedding Crashers, tackles the dramatic role of John Merrick at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, in a production also starring indie film queen Patricia…

WTF Pairs with Restaurant to Add Outdoor Dining to Lineup

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –Williamstown Theatre Festival has teamed with restaurant Hops & Vines to provide expanded concessions and outdoor seating at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance during the WTF season. Hops & Vines concessions at WTF productions will feature a full bar, gourmet sandwiches, snacks, and dessert items including ice cream from SoCo Creamery.…

Staged Musical Version of ‘Far From Heaven’ Film Previews at WTF

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Far From Heaven, a new musical based on the acclaimed, award-winning 2002 motion picture written and directed by Todd Haynes, begins a preview production on the Main Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival on Thursday, July 19, 2012, running through July 29, 2012. The musical features a book by Tony Award-winner Richard Greenberg…

WTF Kicks Off Summer 2012 with Oscar Wilde, World Premiere

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival opened its 58th anniversary season last Friday (June 28, 2012) with simultaneous opening-night performances of Oscar Wilde’s quintessential comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, is directed by TV star David Hyde Pierce, and the world premiere of The Blue Deep, written by Lucy Boyle, directed by veteran…

Lili Taylor, Tyne Daly, Susie Essman to Play Williamstown This Summer

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Six Feet Under’s Lili Taylor, Cagney and Lacey’s Tyne Daly, and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Susie Essman are among a host of Williamstown Theatre Festival veterans and talented newcomers who will be straddling the boards at the ’62 Center in Williamstown this summer, along with Becky Ann Baker, Marylouise Burke, Brandon Victor Dixon,…

David Byrne, Patricia Clarkson and Bradley Cooper Sign Onto WTF 2012 Season

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Art-rock legend and all-around Renaissance man David Byrne, indie film icon Patricia Clarkson, and movie star Bradley Cooper – the “sexiest man alive” last year according to People Magazine, will be appearing in various roles and guises at Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer. Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April; WTF’s…

WTF Presents Experimental Theater Piece about Divorce

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce, an original work written, directed, and performed by members of the New York investigative theatre company The Civilians, is playing on the Nikos Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival through Sunday, August 21, 2011. Crafted from interviews between the cast and their own parents, You…