{"id":15206,"date":"2016-05-02T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=15206"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:01:59","slug":"williamstown-theatre-festival-2016-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/williamstown-theatre-festival-2016-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamstown Theatre Festival 2016 schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"updated\">April 25, 2016<\/span> Article by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveRead\/\" rel=\"author\" class=\"author\">Dave Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule includes highlights such as <strong>Marisa Tomei<\/strong> in <em>The Rose Tattoo<\/em>, June 28 \u2013 July 17; <strong>Connie Ray<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Weems<\/strong> in the <strong>world premiere comedy Romance Novels For Dummies<\/strong>, July 20 \u2013 July 31. Actors appearing in Williamstown during 2016 include: <strong>Christopher Abbott, Katie Lee Hill, Lindsay Mendez, Constance Shulman, Justin Long, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Grace Gummer, Roe Hartrampf, Stephen Kunken. The cast for <em>An American Daughter<\/em>, August 3 \u2013 August 21, includes <\/strong><strong>Deborah Rush, Kate Walsh, Darren Pettie, and Will Pullen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Main Stage | The Rose Tattoo | June 28 &#8211; July 17<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Rose Rattoo<\/li>\n<li>By Tennessee Williams<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Trip Cullman<\/li>\n<li>June 28 &#8211; July 17<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Christopher Abbott, Katie Lee Hill, Lindsay Mendez, Darren Pettie, Portia, Will Pullen, Constance Shulman, Marisa Tomei<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<strong>Trip Cullman<\/strong> directs <strong>Marisa Tomei<\/strong> in this new production of The Rose Rattoo, by <strong>Tennessee Williams<\/strong>, <strong>Tony Award for Best Play in 1951<\/strong>. After retreating in grief, widow Serafina (Tomei) revives and rejoins the world when the hot-blooded trucker Alvaro (Christopher Abbott) arrives at her doorstep. Passion, gossip, music and mystery fill the air in this steamy Gulf Coast town, where possibility and promise ignite.\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Main Stage | Romance Novels For Dummies | July 20 &#8211; July 31<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Romance Novels For Dummies, World Premiere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By Boo Killebrew<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel<\/li>\n<li>July 20 &#8211; July 31<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Justin Long, Connie Ray, Andrew Weems<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\nSisters Liz and Bernie couldn\u2019t be more different: Liz is a good, Southern stay-at-home mom; Bernie is a flailing actress smoking and swearing her way through New York City. But when Liz is suddenly widowed, she and her young daughter move in with Bernie to start again. While Bernie challenges all of Liz\u2019s assumptions about life, love and raising a child, Liz goes out on a series of internet dates which eclipse the grief, fear and gentility she\u2019s known for so long. Can Liz compel her own story to end like a romance novel?\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Main Stage | An American Daughter | August 3 &#8211; August 21<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li>An American Daughter<\/li>\n<li>By Wendy Wasserstein<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Evan Cabnet<\/li>\n<li>August 3 &#8211; August 21<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Grace Gummer, Roe Hartrampf, Stephen Kunken, Darren Pettie, Will Pullen, Deborah Rush, Kate Walsh<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\nWhen the President of the United States nominates Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes (Kate Walsh) to the position of Surgeon General, the excavation of her past triggers a scandal that threatens her confirmation. As partisan politics play out, Lyssa\u2019s deep personal relationships and impressive career trajectory hang in the balance. Evan Cabnet directs Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Wendy Wasserstein\u2019s prescient 1997 play about the cost one woman pays when she dares to have it all.\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h2>WTF Nikos Stage 2016 schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Featured on the Nikos Stage at Williamstown in 2016: Gregg Mozgala (Downsizing Camus), Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot) and Wendell Pierce (\u201cThe Wire,\u201d WTF&#8217;s 2008 Broke-ology) can be seen in the World Premiere Cost of Living (June 29 \u2013 July 10); Carson Elrod (Peter and the Starcatcher), Sue Jean Kim (Bachelorette), Br\u00edan F. O\u2019Byrne (Doubt) who replaces the previously announced Michael Stuhlbarg and Laila Robins (\u201cHomeland\u201d) make up the cast of the World Premiere sci-fi comedy thriller The Chinese Room (July 13 \u2013 July 23); Jerry Dixon (If\/Then), Jose Llana (The King and I), Katie Lee Hill, Stephen Wallem (\u201cNurse Jackie\u201d) and Noah Zachary (Dear Edwina) will appear in the World Premiere musical Poster Boy (July 27 \u2013 August 7); and closing out the summer are the previously announced Tony and Emmy Award nominee Alfred Molina and Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Jane Kaczmarek in the American Premiere of And No More Shall We Part (August 10 \u2013 August 21).<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Nikos Stage | Cost Of Living | June 29 &#8211; July 10<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cost Of Living, World Premiere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By Martyna Majok<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Jo Bonney<\/li>\n<li>June 29 &#8211; July 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Rebecca Naomi Jones, Gregg Mozgala, Wendell Pierce<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\nCost Of Living is about four very different people, in four very different circumstances, each trying to get by. Eddie (Wendell Pierce), an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John (Gregg Mozgala), a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires over-worked Jess (Rebecca Naomi Jones) as a caregiver. As their lives intersect, Majok\u2019s play delves into the chasm between abundance and need and explores the space where bodies \u2014 abled and disabled \u2014 meet each other.\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Nikos Stage | The Chinese Room | July 13 &#8211; July 23<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Chinese Room, World Premiere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By Michael West<\/li>\n<li>Directed by James Macdonald<\/li>\n<li>July 13 &#8211; July 23<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Carson Elrod, Sue Jean Kim, Br\u00edan F. O\u2019Byrne, Laila Robins<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\"><em>The Chinese Room<\/em> is a sci-fi comedy thriller by Irish playwright Michael West. A visionary in the field of artificial intelligence, Frank (Br\u00edan F. O\u2019Byrne) has built a humandroid to preserve his wife Lily\u2019s (Laila Robins) memory \u2014 because she is losing hers. But when he is ousted from the company he founded, he must race to save his life\u2019s work. As Frank scrambles to protect his property, his legacy and the technology he invented, the play examines how far we will go to preserve what we love.\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Nikos Stage | Poster Boy | July 27 &#8211; August 7<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Poster Boy, World Premiere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Music and Lyrics by Craig Carnelia<\/li>\n<li>Book by Joe Tracz<\/li>\n<li>Movement by Danny Mefford<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Stafford Arima<\/li>\n<li>July 27 &#8211; August 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Jerry Dixon, Katie Lee Hill, Jose Llana, Stephen Wallem, Noah Zachary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">Inspired by actual events surrounding the 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi, a college student who brought national attention to cyber-bullying, Poster Boy is a new American musical. A community of gay men in an online chat room come together to discover what drove one of their own to take his life. This play lays bare the complexity of protecting our privacy, identity and humanity in the digital era.<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3>WTF Nikos Stage | And No More Shall We Part | August 10 &#8211; August 21<\/h3>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And No More Shall We Part, American Premiere<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By Tom Holloway<\/li>\n<li>Directed by Anne Kauffman<\/li>\n<li>August 10 &#8211; August 21<\/li>\n<li><strong>With Jane Kaczmarek, Alfred Molina<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">When Pam (Kaczmarek) becomes terminally ill, she and her husband Don (Molina) must face the most difficult decision yet in their long and loving marriage. With passion, fear, strength and even humor, they grapple with how, and if, to say goodbye.<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h2>Williamstown Theatre Festival tickets, Box office, nearby hotels, and directions<\/h2>\n<p>Single <strong>tickets for the 2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival season<\/strong> are now available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">wtfestival.org<\/a> and by phone at 413-458-3200 x 17.  The <strong>WTF Box Office<\/strong> will open in June at which point tickets may be purchased online, by phone, or in person at the \u201862 Center for Theatre and Dance Box Office at 1000 Main St (Route 2), Williamstown, MA 02167.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-5\">\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<h3>Hotels in Williamstown, MA<\/h3>\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<p>Follow 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>.\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n[mappress mapid=&#8221;89&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;350&#8243; adaptive=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, 2016 Article by Dave Read 2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule includes highlights such as Marisa Tomei in The Rose Tattoo, June 28 \u2013 July 17; Connie Ray and Andrew Weems in the world premiere comedy Romance Novels For Dummies, July 20 \u2013 July 31. 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