Williamstown Theatre Festival Offers Table Read Dinner Series at The Williams Inn

TABLE READ –A Williamstown Theatre Festival Dinner SeriesThursday, March 26, 7-10pmThe Williams InnTickets: $177.91 per person Your table is the stage for this one-night only experience bringing together theatrical and culinary artistry featuring the work of Chef Ron Reda and artists to be announced. Join us for the first in…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces New “Biennial Production Cadence”

BUILDING ON THE BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS OF W71, THE FESTIVAL ADOPTS A BIENNIAL PRODUCTION CADENCE AND EXPANDS YEAR-ROUND Williamstown, MA (January 20, 2026) — Following a landmark summer that reintroduced Williamstown Theatre Festival as one of the most ambitious and exciting destinations in American theatre–generating 17M impressions, with 50 percent reaching…

REVIEW: Heartbeat Opera’s “Vanessa” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

by Michael Moran, Special to Berkshire on Stage [EDITOR’S NOTE: The Williamstown Theatre Festival did not include Berkshire on Stage on their press email list, and we were informed by a “Dear Friends” letter that they were not able to seat our critics because of limited seating at their new…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Needs Set-up and Tear Down Hands

Hands Needed Hands needed to assist in setup and teardown of seating for the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Skating Rink. The work will take place on the ice, so be prepared to dress for the cold. Dates and Times: Friday, July 18th: 6p-7p, 9:30p-11p…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Seeking to Hire Help with Paints, Electric, Sound, and Scenic

Williamstown Theatre Festival is looking for multiple hands for paints, electricians, sound and scenic from now until the end of the festival. We are specifically pushing for the next 5-6 days as we begin our tech process for the festival. Please find below the posting per department. If you have any…

Heartbeat Opera Brings Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” to North Adams

Williamstown, MA â€” New York’s Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by The New Yorker and “revelatory” by The Los Angeles Times—presents a new adaptation of Samuel Barber’s rarely mounted opera VANESSA at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), directed by the visionary R.B. Schlather. This marks the first-ever…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces Play Readings

The Williamstown Theatre Festival reading series, presented in partnership with the Clark Art Institute, brings playwrights, directors, and professional actors together for a 29-hour rehearsal process culminating in a public presentation. The series provides playwrights a process that gives them the essential information they need to continue to develop their new…

by Mark G. Auerbach Ali Louis Bourzgui, the Pittsfield actor who starred in the recent Broadway revival of The Who’s Tommy, takes on the role of Orpheus in Hadestown, beginning May 6. For details: https://hadestown.com/ Eliza Gonzales, UMass Theatre Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting, makes her Broadway debut as voice and dialect coach…