{"id":14258,"date":"2015-02-24T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:31:12","slug":"williamstown-theatre-festival-2015-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/williamstown-theatre-festival-2015-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js\"><\/script><g:plus action=\"share\"><\/g:plus> <span class=\"updated\">Feb. 24, 2015<\/span> Article by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveRead\/\" rel=\"author\">Dave Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_14265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14265\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/218px-KyraSedgwickJune09.jpg\" alt=\"Kyra Sedgwick performs during 2015 Williamstown Theatre Festival season\" width=\"218\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyra Sedgwick receiving a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2008; Photo by Angela George.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 season schedule<\/strong> features performances by such celebrated actors as <strong>Kyra Sedgwick, Cynthia Nixon, Audra McDonald, and Will Swenson<\/strong> in a variety of plays on the Main and Nikos Stages, including several World and American premiers, as well as a production of <strong>Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s<\/strong> classic drama, <em>A Moon For The Misbegotten<\/em>. The WTF is located on the campus of <strong>Williams College<\/strong> in <strong>Williamstown, MA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTF Main Stage &#8211; OFF THE MAIN ROAD<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>June 30 &#8211; July 19, 2015<\/li>\n<li>By William Inge<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Evan Cabnet<\/li>\n<li>WORLD PREMIERE<\/li>\n<li>Starring Kyra Sedgwick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Kyra Sedgwick<\/strong> makes her WTF debut in the world premiere of <em>Off the Main Road<\/em> by <strong>Pulitzer Prize-winner William Inge<\/strong>.  The play had been lost until found and reintroduced by the Inge Estate in 2008. <strong>OFF THE MAIN ROAD runs on the WTF Main Stage June 30 through July 19, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WTF Nikos Stage &#8211; LEGACY<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>July 1 &#8211; July 12, 2015<\/li>\n<li>By Daniel Goldfarb<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Oliver Butler<\/li>\n<li>WORLD PREMIERE<\/li>\n<li>Starring Jessica Hecht &#038; Eric Bogosian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>When <strong>Eric Bogosian&#8217;s<\/strong> character Neil Abrams, a novelist, is panned by <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>, he reopens the conversation with his wife, played by <strong>Jessica Hecht<\/strong> about starting a family. As Neil copes with feeling increasingly antiquated and culturally irrelevant and thewife begins a relationship with one of his brilliant grad students, the equilibrium of their marriage is threatened. <strong>LEGACY runs on the WTF Nikos Stage July 1 through July 12, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WTF Nikos Stage &#8211; KINSHIP<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>July 15 &#8211; July 25, 2015<\/li>\n<li>By Carey Perloff<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Jo Bonney<\/li>\n<li>AMERICAN PREMIERE<\/li>\n<li>Starring Cynthia Nixon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Cynthia Nixon<\/strong> makes her Festival debut in the role of a fiery newspaper editor who deals with an upstart journalist and an overly-protective mother unravel while a passionate entanglement turns into an intense power struggle. <strong>KINSHIP runs on the WTF Nikos Stage July 15 through July 25, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WTF Main Stage &#8211; PARADISE BLUE<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>July 22 &#8211; August 2, 2015<\/li>\n<li>By Dominique Morisseau<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson<\/li>\n<li>WORLD PREMIERE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The title character in <em>Paradise Blue<\/em> is a trumpeter who is conflicted about selling his once-vibrant jazz club in <strong>Detroit\u2019s<\/strong> Blackbottom neighborhood. When a mysterious woman with a walk that drives men mad comes to town with her own plans, everyone\u2019s world is turned upside down. <strong>PARADISE BLUE runs on the WTF Main Stage July 22 through August 2, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WTF Nikos Stage &#8211; UNKNOWN SOLDIER<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>July 30 &#8211; August 9, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Book &#038; Lyrics by Daniel Goldstein<\/li>\n<li>Music &#038; Lyrics by Michael Friedman<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Trip Cullman<\/li>\n<li>WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The protagonist in <em>Unknown Soldier<\/em> discovers an enigmatic photograph while cleaning out her deceased grandmother\u2019s home and sets out to understand her past after she As she chases the truth about the soldier featured in the photo, getting drawn into a tangle of historical facts and mysteries that lead her to surprising love stories and unexpected truths.  <strong>UNKNOWN SOLDIER runs on the WTF Nikos Stage July 30 through August 9, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WTF Main Stage &#8211; A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>August 5 &#8211; August 23, 2015<\/li>\n<li>By Eugene O\u2019Neill<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Gordon Edelstein<\/li>\n<li>Starring Audra McDonald and Will Swenson<\/li>\n<li>Scenic design by Ming Cho Lee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s final play is set in a dilapidated Connecticut house in 1923 and focuses on Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan&#8217;s landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.  <strong>A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN runs on the WTF Main Stage August 5 through August 23, 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTF Nikos Stage &#8211; CHEWING GUM DREAMS and AN INTERVENTION<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>August 12 &#8211; August 23, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Chewing Gum Dreams, By Michaela Coel<\/li>\n<li>An Intervention, By Mike Bartlett<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Lila Neugebauer<\/li>\n<li>AMERICAN PREMIERES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Chewing Gum Dreams<\/em>: Fourteen-year-old Tracey Gordon is rude, crude, and riotous. Who can blame her? Every which way she turns, she\u2019s constantly failed by those who should be looking out for her. But beneath her tough exterior lies a very real fear that the future holds very little for her. <\/p>\n<p><em>An Intervention<\/em>: A whole lot of booze, a new girlfriend, and government involvement in a foreign war are just some of the factors that threaten to drive a massive wedge between two people. Can they close the ever-widening gap in their relationship, or have they reached a breaking point?  <strong>CHEWING GUM DREAMS and AN INTERVENTION run on the WTF Nikos Stage August 12 through August 23, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Williamstown Theatre Festival tickets and Box office information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1000 Main St. &#8211; Rt. 2<\/li>\n<li>Williamstown, MA 01267<\/li>\n<li>Box office &#8211; 413-597-3400<\/li>\n<li>web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">wtfestival.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to get to Williamstown Theatre Festival<\/h2>\n<p>[mappress mapid=&#8221;89&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;400&#8243; adaptive=&#8221;true&#8221;]<br \/>\nFollow the link for Berkshires travel information, including public transportation within Berkshire county and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-bus-amtrak-train-schedules\/\" title=\"Berkshires bus and Amtrak train schedules\">Amtrak and Peter Pan bus schedules<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<h2>Hotels in Williamstown, MA<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/141874\/?pfs=3724\">1896 House Brookside &amp; Pondside<\/a> &#8211; 910 Cold Spring Road<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/142329\/?pfs=3724\">1896 House Country Inn<\/a> &#8211; Rt 7<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/142698\/?pfs=3724\">House On Main Street<\/a> &#8211; 1120 Main Street<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/120933\/?pfs=3724\">Orchards Hotel<\/a> &#8211; 222 Adams Road<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/98676\/?pfs=3724\">Williamstown Motel<\/a> &#8211; 295 Main Street<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/91838\/?pfs=3724\">Howard Johnson Williamstown<\/a> -213 Main Street<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihsadvantage.com\/h\/hotelinfo\/williamstown\/ma\/us\/127418\/?pfs=3724\">The Villager Motel<\/a> &#8211; 953 Simonds Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24, 2015 Article by Dave Read Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 season schedule features performances by such celebrated actors as Kyra Sedgwick, Cynthia Nixon, Audra McDonald, and Will Swenson in a variety of plays on the Main and Nikos Stages, including several World and American premiers, as well as a production of Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-outdated","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}