Williams Theatre DepartmentpresentsThe Green Room withDee Dee BridgewaterA Winner of the Tony Award, and3-Time Grammy Award-WinningSinger and SongwriterApr 24 | 3 PM | Virtual | Free The series has been established by Omar Sangare, Chair and Professor of Theatre. This event was made possible, in part, thanks to Prof. Rashida Braggs Over the course of…
This summer, rediscover the power of live theatre with a season of three world premieres unlike anything you have experienced before and yet every bit as artistically excellent, culturally rich, and impactful as the work you have come to expect from Williamstown Theatre Festival. Devised by the country’s leading generative theatre artists,…
Posted September, 2006 To the Editor: Let’s be honest here. The Williamstown Theatre Festival has been all about itself and not about its audience for years. It is a mere coincidence that Roger Rees’ term at the helm commenced as the WTF moved in the ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, the most…
Posted July 11, 2005 “We cannot read or hear if we are bored and hostile and confused.” – Mary Caroline Richards I am not sure that I can actually tell you that I saw Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. I was in the same room where the show was being…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April, 2005 Apparently, I was in attendance at a “Glittering Opening Night”! I wish someone had told me or I might have worn something better than the olive green suit I wore to work. Frankly, while I very much enjoyed being a part of the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April, 2000 As a theatre critic, I have to say that I found “In a Lake of Fire” a very powerful piece of theatre. Probably one of the best theatrical experiences that I have had in a long time. The acting, the singing, the set,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 1999 This is the third production of “The Glass Menagerie” that I have reviewed in the past eighteen months. So I went in thinking I knew it all – Tom, Laura, Amanda, the Gentleman Caller, blue roses and little glass unicorns. But I found…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 1999 They just don’t get it. It is a pity, because “Little Shop of Horrors” is a perfectly constructed small-scale musical, and it has legions of devoted fans – myself included. But the Williams students who have mounted the current production on the AMT…
