Tag Archive for Williamstown Theatre Festival

Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ Opens at Williamstown Theatre Festival

Lili Taylor in a scene from 'A Doll's House' at Williamstown Theatre Festival (photos T. Charles Erickson)

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House plays on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival now through July 31, 2011. The production of the 19th-century critique of marriage features actors Lili Taylor (High Fidelity, Six Feet Under) and Lily Rabe (Crimes of the Heart at WTF; Law and Order and Saving Grace…

WTF Revives 18th Century Comedy ‘She Stoops to Conquer’

Holley Fain

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th-century bawdy comedy She Stoops to Conquer is being revived on the Main Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) in a production helmed by former WTF artistic director Nicholas Martin that runs from July 27 through August 7, 2011. The play stars Brooks Ashmanskas (Knickerbocker at WTF; Promises, Promises)…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Launches South-to-North Roundtrip Shuttle Service

The '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College is the summer home of the Williamstown Theatre Festival

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) launches FestEx, a shuttle service from Great Barrington to Williamstown, for the month of July for Saturday matinees beginning July 16 through July 30. In an effort to make the Festival more accessible to all Berkshire residents and tourists, the Festival has committed itself to reaching out to…

Lewis Black Play to Be Staged at Williamstown Theatre Festival

Lewis Black

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Comedian and playwright Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch will be presented on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) from July 6 through July 17, 2011. Official opening night is July 7 at 7:30 p.m. A modern day farce that mocks the all-too-human desire to shape our own destiny,  the…

(Theater Review) A Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival

Ana Reeder

Williamstown Theatre Festival A Streetcar Named Desire Nikos Stage June 22-July 3, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 23, 2011) – Every production of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is haunted by the ghost of Elia Kazan’s film version starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. Wise are those…

‘Streetcar’ kicks off Williamstown Theatre Festival season

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire will open the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) and will run June 22 through July 3, 2011. Jessica Hecht stars as Blanche DuBois; Sam Rockwell plays Stanley Kowalski; Ana Reeder plays Blanche’s sister and Stanley’s wife, Stella; and Daniel Stewart Sherman…

WTF Casting Includes Donna McKechnie, Maura Tierney and Steven Weber

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Maura Tierney (ER; Some Girl(s)) and Steven Weber (Brothers and Sisters; Design for Living at WTF) will star as Barbara and Kenneth Hoyle in Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels, the first Main Stage production of the Williamstown Theater Festival’s 2011 season (June 29 – July 24, 2011), the company’s 57th season and…