(Pittsfield, MA – March 7, 2023) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), will partner for the first time to present the 1998 musical A New Brain. As previously announced, A New Brain, featuring music and lyrics by BSC Associate Artist William Finn (BSC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Royal Family of…
The Williamstown Theatre Festival is looking forward to sharing details about the 2023 Season in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, please consider sharing WTF’s seasonal job postings with someone whom you think might be interested in being a part of a season that promises to engage, enlighten, and entertain…
Williamstown Theatre Festival is pleased to announce Clarence Coo as the recipient of the 2023 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award for his play Chapters of a Floating Life. Coo will receive the $10,000 award and the accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission to write a new play. The play will also receive a…
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY!ED NAPIER’S MUSIC LESSONS December 4 at 2:00 PMClark Art Institute’s auditorium As part of the Williamstown Holiday Walk festivities and the Clark‘s “First Sunday Free” program, Williamstown Theatre Festival is thrilled to announce a special one-day-only performance of Ed Napier‘s Music Lessons. Tracing his years of voice and theater training with two…
by Roseann Cane “So many plays in the HIV/AIDS theatrical canon are about white gay men and death and dying. I wanted to add something Black and gay and full of hope. we are continuous is my contribution.” –Harrison David Rivers The phenomenon is all too familiar. We all know…
The Boris Sagal Fellowship was established in 1987 by WTF Trustee Emeritus Marge Champion in memory of her late husband and is awarded to a director with significant experience who is making the transition to a professional career. Jean Carlo Yunén, recipient of the 2022 Sagal Fellowship, will direct a workshop production of The…
by Roseann Cane Writing this review may prove to be among the most unpleasant tasks I’ve experienced in quite some time. The Most Happy Fella is one of my favorite musicals. I’m but one of many people who consider it Frank Loesser’s masterpiece. Unlike other musicals by Loesser (which include…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods MAN OF GOD by Anna Ouyang Moench, currently on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is an astonishing theatrical adventure. With a burst of K-Pop music, the lights come up on a hotel room in Bangkok and four Korean-American teenagers in a super big…
