Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Video | Samuel J. and K.
Video | It's Jewdy's Show
Check out this video interview with writer and actor, Judy Gold and director, Amanda Charlton.
Interview | Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold of ITS' JEWDY'S SHOW
Kristin Idaszak, Dramaturg, had a chance to interview Kate Moira Ryan, playwright, and Judy Gold, co-writer and performer about the creation of It's Jewdy's Show.
Kate Moira Ryan: So are you Jewish?
Kristin Idaszak: No, I was raised very Roman Catholic.
KMR: Me either. But it’s kind of like Stockholm’s Syndrome. So what do you want to know about us?
KI: First I’d love to know how you two started working together.
Judy Gold: We’re friends. Years ago, she met my ex at a party—
KMR: When Henry was eight months old—
JG: And my ex said, I met these really cool people, we’re going out to dinner with them. We went out for Mexican food and had like 400 margaritas. So that’s when I knew Kate and I were going to be friends.
KMR: If we didn’t have alcohol, we wouldn’t be friends.
[laughter]
KMR: We were in Chicago—
JG: And I was doing the clubs and Kate was in town—and we were at this party, where there were free martinis, but I was working so I wasn’t drinking, and I said, Kate, I can’t do the clubs anymore—
KMR: You’d had a martini. You were done for the night.
JG: I’d had a martini.
KMR: And I said, why don’t you do a one-person show—
JG: No I said, I want to do a one-person show.
KMR: And I said, let’s do it about Jewish mothers.
JG: No, you asked what my act was about. It was about my mother, and I was getting ridiculed by the Jewish press for playing into stereotypes.
KMR: So I had another martini and said, well, why don’t we interview Jewish mothers and find out if the stereotype is real. We came up with 25 questions on the back of a cocktail napkin. So she called me the next morning and said, I’m so excited to get started. I asked, on what? Because I’d had too many martinis—
JG: And I’d only had one! But then we started working on 25 Questions for Jewish Mothers, and that was very successful.
KMR: It played in New York for nine months and toured around the country for three years.
JG: We just finished that a year ago. Then I started this project—and this is more standup-y—with my friends Eric and Bob.
KMR: Then Judy called me and said, "I want to go in a different direction." I asked her what she wanted it to be. She said, "I want it to be about my quest for a sitcom and why it didn’t work out." And her relationship with comedy and how that transformed her life. As a child she was bullied because she was different—she was very tall at a very young age, and a little geeky, right?
JG: A little geeky?
[laughter]
KMR: And she wanted her own sitcom because when she was a kid she really lived in this world inside the tv set. I said, let’s write about that. We took the structure that Bob and Eric had come up with and then I stripped it down and we really made it into what she wanted it to be about. And it’s great because every process is really that, a process. A lot of cooks went into the pot. And we worked furiously to rewrite the show for three months.
KI: So what is that process like? Obviously, Judy, it’s your life. What’s it like for you, Kate, to write about someone else’s life—how do you do that?
KMR: Judy and I are so connected. I provided the structure but Judy was really interested in helping shape it. We write really well together. She’ll get up and do something and I’ll watch, so the writing really takes place in the rehearsal room. And we’re always cracking jokes together and having a great time. I love writing with her, and I love writing for her. Of course sometimes we want to kill each other, but that’s not often. I mean, we had such a great time at Stop n’ Shop last night—but we’re also rather demented. I was chasing her down the aisles trying to run her over with the shopping cart. It’s not that we don’t have deep conversations—sometimes we do—but mostly we really just enjoy each other’s company.
KI (laughing): That’s fantastic. And you’re also a well-known playwright in your own right. How does this compare to your other work?
KMR: I’m really eclectic. I’ve written several adaptations—I wrote an adaptation called BeeBo Brinker Chronicles based on lesbian pulp novels from the 40s and 50s, and a play about four women rehearsing Chekhov before they’re executed, called OTMA. I do travel a lot to Eastern Europe, mainly Russia. That’s my fascination. But I do really almost anything. Sometimes it’s successful, and sometimes it’s not. But that’s what a life in the theatre really is. You put it out there and you keep moving forward.
KI: Is this your first time at WTF?
KMR: I was actually here with Bart Sher—about ten years ago now—we did readings for a of a few of my plays.
KI: And you were here last summer at the cabaret, right Judy?
JG: Yes. It’s a very creative, productive, positive atmosphere. You really feel like you’re in the middle of major creativity. And I love the apprentices—they’re so wide-eyed and eager—
KMR: They’re so enthusiastic—
JG: And I just want to go up to them and whisper into their ears, “Get out.”
KMR: “Get out while you still can.”
KI: So I have one last question for you—what’s your drink of choice?
KMR: What is your drink? You like red wine.
JG: Coffee. Black.
KMR: That’s not a drink.
JG: Yes it is. She asked what my drink of choice is. Any drink, right?
KI: Right.
JG: Coffee. Black, strong coffee. I also like ice water. Ice water and coffee.
KMR: Well I like Diet Coke. And I like tequila. But I don’t drink tequila during the day.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Weekly Preview | June 21st-27
This week we kick off our season with the opening of It's Jewdy's Show: My Life as a Sitcom
June 23 – July 4 by Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan
original music by Judy Gold
lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold
additional material by Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith
directed by Amanda Charlton
Building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny-woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her amazing life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition in a world where she sometimes does not fit. Festival Artistic Associate Amanda Charlton directs.
Scenic Design Andrew Boyce
Lighting Design Marcus Doshi
Sound Design Alex Neumann
Production Stage Manager Libby Unsworth
Production Manager Joel M. Krause
New Nikos Q & A Series begins Saturday, June 26th
This Saturday, Judy Gold and special guest, Rabbi Joshua Boettiger will participate in a new Q & A series, hosted by Sarah Slight, Literary Associate.
Check out the remainder of this series, offered after the first Friday performance of every Nikos show.
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June 23 – July 4 by Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan
original music by Judy Gold
lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold
additional material by Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith
directed by Amanda Charlton
Building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny-woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her amazing life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition in a world where she sometimes does not fit. Festival Artistic Associate Amanda Charlton directs.
Scenic Design Andrew Boyce
Lighting Design Marcus Doshi
Sound Design Alex Neumann
Production Stage Manager Libby Unsworth
Production Manager Joel M. Krause
New Nikos Q & A Series begins Saturday, June 26th
This Saturday, Judy Gold and special guest, Rabbi Joshua Boettiger will participate in a new Q & A series, hosted by Sarah Slight, Literary Associate.
Check out the remainder of this series, offered after the first Friday performance of every Nikos show.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Welcome to WTF Summer 2010
Welcome back to the Williamstown Theatre Festival Blog! As we gear up for this summer’s season of shows, beginning performances on June 23rd with It’s Jewdy’s Show: My Life as a Sitcom by Judy Gold and Kate Moira, we’ll be bringing you some preview info on all the shows of the season.
Look for our usual weekly schedule devoted to the show opening that week—Monday | Preview, Tuesday | Interview, Wednesday | Dramaturgy, Thursday | Special Feature and Friday | Opening Night Photos—beginning on June 21st.
Also, remember that aside from the exciting season of shows on the Main and Nikos stages, the Workshop will produce the Fellowship Play and Musical, Directing Assistant Projects, Directing Intern Projects, and the Greylock Theatre Project. Aside from Fridays @ 3 and the Tuesday Talkback, Literary will also host a Friday Q & A for all of the Nikos shows. The playwright along with a special guest will converse with audience on the new work at WTF this summer. Don’t miss this exciting new addition to the first Friday performance of each Nikos show.
More information about all of the events at WTF (don’t forget the Free Theatre and the Cabarets) will be posted each week, so be sure to check us out regularly. Its bound to be another busy and exciting summer!
Sarah Slight, Literary Associate
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces Complete 2010 Season
Nicholas Martin announced today the remainder of the 2010 Season for Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), the 56th season, and final one under Martin’s tenure as WTF Artistic Director.
In addition to the previously announced productions, the 2010 WTF season will also include a Main Stage production of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation (July 14 – July 25), as well as the world premiere of The Last Goodbye, musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel, with music and lyrics by Jeff Buckley, playing on the Nikos Stage August 5 – 20, 2010.
A complete list of Main Stage and Nikos Stage productions is as follows:
MAIN STAGE
The season begins on the WTF Main Stage with a new production of the Tony Award-winning, Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (June 30 – July 11). The Romans are coming! As in the time of Plautus himself, director Jessica Stone (Butley, The Odd Couple) helms an all-male troop of actors through the comic fray in this fresh, “old” take on American master and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Sondheim's raucous musical classic. With Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Young Frankenstein, Wicked, Finian’s Rainbow) leading the charge as Pseudolus, a slave who must win his freedom by playing matchmaker for his master, this toe-tapping, zany romp through ancient Rome is a paean to the Gods of Comedy.
Up second is John Guare’s sensational masterwork of interconnected worlds, Six Degrees of Separation (July 14 – July 25). One evening can change the course of many lives. Into a Manhattan couple's nightly discussions of art deals and dinner reservations, a charismatic stranger arrives with stories of a famous father and promises of walk on roles in Cats: The Movie. Could he possibly be for real? This Olivier Award winner and Pulitzer finalist stirs the pot of privilege with often hilarious and ultimately heart-breaking results.
Next, Artistic Director Nicholas Martin (Present Laughter, Butley, Hedda Gabler) will direct Thornton Wilder’s quintessentially American play Our Town (July 28 – August 8). Set not far from the Festival’s Berkshire home in the fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, Wilder’s masterpiece finds the beautiful in the mundane lives of people in a small town. Martin brings together a family of Williamstown favorites, including Becky Ann Baker (All My Sons, Assassins) and Dylan Baker (God of Carnage, Mauritius, Revolutionary Road), Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge, After the Fall), Campbell Scott (The Spanish Prisoner, Roger Dodger, Singles), and John Rubenstein (Tony Award– Children of a Lesser God, Love Letters) as the local town-folk whose hopes and memories are chronicled in America’s most beloved play.
The Main Stage season concludes with a production of Lanford Wilson's modern classic Fifth of July (August 11 – 22) in a co-production with Bay Street Theatre. This gentle comic drama from Wilson's beloved Talley Trilogy will be directed by Tony Award-nominee Terry Kinney (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, reasons to be pretty). As friends and family gather to remember a lost loved one, a group of thirty-something prodigals from the rebellious post-Vietnam generation return to their rural Missouri home, finding themselves older and wiser, but devoid of dreams. Long-buried rivalries and burning secrets reignite on a late summer evening as this motley tribe struggles to adapt to the changes wrought in their lives.
NIKOS STAGE
On the Nikos Stage, funny-woman Judy Gold (currently starring in Love, Loss, and What I Wore) will appear in her new one-woman play, It’s Jewdy’s Show: My Life as a Sitcom (June 23 – July 4), directed by Festival Artistic Associate Amanda Charlton (Caroline in Jersey, Dissonance). Following her success of 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her amazing life through the lens of the classic sit-coms of her youth. With multi-media, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition in a world in which she sometimes does not fit.
In a home-grown production, Samuel J. and K. (July 7 – July 18) by Mat Smart (The 13th of Paris, The Hopper Collection) arrives on the Nikos after a hugely successful Fridays @ 3 reading last summer. In this hard-charging play, Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation—but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him. Samuel J. and K. challenges the traditional definitions of family and asks if a place we’ve only imagined can become home overnight. Festival Artistic Associate Justin Waldman (What is the Cause of Thunder?, The Atheist) directs.
Amy Herzog’s (Hungry, Willing) provocative new play After the Revolution (July 21 – August 1) makes its journey from the Festival’s Fellowship Project last summer to the Nikos Stage, directed by former Boris Sagal Fellow Carolyn Cantor (In a Dark, Dark House, Pumpgirl). It's 1999, and three generations of a radical leftist family meet in New York to celebrate the law school graduation of Emma, the family's youngest torch-carrier. A public revelation about her late grandfather, a victim of the blacklist, sends Emma reeling as the family begins to fracture. Shaken and betrayed, she must weigh her fierce politics and family loyalty to decide if the ends really justify the means. Developed from scratch at WTF, After the Revolution is a play about love, family secrets, and the American Left. Following Williamstown, After the Revolution will be seen in New York at Playwrights Horizons this fall.
A legendary love. A transcendent artist. Shakespeare’s classic verse meets the driving, passionate rock of iconic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley in the world premiere of The Last Goodbye (August 5 – August 20), the final show on the Nikos Stage. Conceived and adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel (The Secret Agenda of Trees) with the music and lyrics of Jeff Buckley (Grace) arranged by Kris Kukul (Kasper Hauser, WTF’s Cabaret Director), an ensemble of fourteen singer/actors bring to life the lyrical beauty of two great poets set in a world of youthful angst, grandeur and grit. Fall for Romeo and Juliet all over again in this incendiary new musical.
The Fellowship Projects
In 2005, the Williamstown Theatre Festival introduced an innovative program to develop new work called The Fellowship Projects. The program pairs talented young writers with the prestigious Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellows and ten actors from the WTF Non-Equity Company to create a new play and a new musical over the course of eight weeks. Alumni of The Fellowship Projects include Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, whose project Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson is currently playing at the Public Theatre in New York this spring, and Amy Herzog, whose After the Revolution is part of Williamstown’s 2010 Season, moving on to Playwrights Horizons this fall.
This summer, The Fellowship Musical will feature book and lyrics by Noah Haidle (Saturn Returns, Mr. Marmalade, What is the Cause of Thunder?), music by Kellys Collins and Ryan Tyndell, directed by Davis McCallum (The Belle Stratagem, Euridyce). It will play in the Directing Studio from July 19 – July 20.
The Fellowship Play will be written by Bekah Brunstetter (Oorah!, Ars Nova Playwright in residence) and directed by Kerry Whigham (Barack and Me, Oh, The Horror!). It will be seen in the Directing Studio from August 9 – August 10.
Tickets
Tickets for the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival season can be purchased online at www.wtfestival.org starting May 29 at Noon and by phone at (413) 597-3400 starting Tuesday, June 1 at 10:00 a.m.
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WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2010 SEASON SUMMARY
MAIN STAGE
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart
Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jessica Stone
Choreography by Denis Jones
Cast includes: Christopher Fitzgerald
June 30 - July 11, 2010
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
By John Guare
July 14 - July 25, 2010
OUR TOWN
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Cast includes: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Jessica Hecht, John Rubenstein and Campbell Scott
July 28 - August 8, 2010
FIFTH OF JULY
By Lanford Wilson
Directed by Terry Kinney
August 11 – 22, 2010
NIKOS STAGE
IT’S JEWDY’S SHOW: MY LIFE AS A SITCOM
By Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan
Original music by Judy Gold
Lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold
Additional material Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith
Directed by Amanda Charlton
June 23 - July 4, 2010
SAMUEL J. AND K.
By Mat Smart
Directed by Justin Waldman
July 7 – July 18, 2010
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
July 21 – August 1, 2010
THE LAST GOODBYE
A musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Conceived and adapted by Michael Kimmel
Music and lyrics by Jeff Buckley
Directed by Michael Kimmel
Orchestrations, music direction and arrangements by Kris Kukul
August 5 – 20, 2010
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL
Continuing its 56-year history under the artistic direction of Nicholas Martin, Williamstown Theatre Festival hosts award-winning actors, directors and playwrights who join forces to entertain and delight the Berkshire community of year-round and seasonal patrons. In addition to its acclaimed productions, WTF has extensive training and professional development programs for the next generation of actors, writers, directors, designers, technicians and managers. In 2002, WTF received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
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In addition to the previously announced productions, the 2010 WTF season will also include a Main Stage production of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation (July 14 – July 25), as well as the world premiere of The Last Goodbye, musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel, with music and lyrics by Jeff Buckley, playing on the Nikos Stage August 5 – 20, 2010.
A complete list of Main Stage and Nikos Stage productions is as follows:
MAIN STAGE
The season begins on the WTF Main Stage with a new production of the Tony Award-winning, Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (June 30 – July 11). The Romans are coming! As in the time of Plautus himself, director Jessica Stone (Butley, The Odd Couple) helms an all-male troop of actors through the comic fray in this fresh, “old” take on American master and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Sondheim's raucous musical classic. With Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Young Frankenstein, Wicked, Finian’s Rainbow) leading the charge as Pseudolus, a slave who must win his freedom by playing matchmaker for his master, this toe-tapping, zany romp through ancient Rome is a paean to the Gods of Comedy.
Up second is John Guare’s sensational masterwork of interconnected worlds, Six Degrees of Separation (July 14 – July 25). One evening can change the course of many lives. Into a Manhattan couple's nightly discussions of art deals and dinner reservations, a charismatic stranger arrives with stories of a famous father and promises of walk on roles in Cats: The Movie. Could he possibly be for real? This Olivier Award winner and Pulitzer finalist stirs the pot of privilege with often hilarious and ultimately heart-breaking results.
Next, Artistic Director Nicholas Martin (Present Laughter, Butley, Hedda Gabler) will direct Thornton Wilder’s quintessentially American play Our Town (July 28 – August 8). Set not far from the Festival’s Berkshire home in the fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, Wilder’s masterpiece finds the beautiful in the mundane lives of people in a small town. Martin brings together a family of Williamstown favorites, including Becky Ann Baker (All My Sons, Assassins) and Dylan Baker (God of Carnage, Mauritius, Revolutionary Road), Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge, After the Fall), Campbell Scott (The Spanish Prisoner, Roger Dodger, Singles), and John Rubenstein (Tony Award– Children of a Lesser God, Love Letters) as the local town-folk whose hopes and memories are chronicled in America’s most beloved play.
The Main Stage season concludes with a production of Lanford Wilson's modern classic Fifth of July (August 11 – 22) in a co-production with Bay Street Theatre. This gentle comic drama from Wilson's beloved Talley Trilogy will be directed by Tony Award-nominee Terry Kinney (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, reasons to be pretty). As friends and family gather to remember a lost loved one, a group of thirty-something prodigals from the rebellious post-Vietnam generation return to their rural Missouri home, finding themselves older and wiser, but devoid of dreams. Long-buried rivalries and burning secrets reignite on a late summer evening as this motley tribe struggles to adapt to the changes wrought in their lives.
NIKOS STAGE
On the Nikos Stage, funny-woman Judy Gold (currently starring in Love, Loss, and What I Wore) will appear in her new one-woman play, It’s Jewdy’s Show: My Life as a Sitcom (June 23 – July 4), directed by Festival Artistic Associate Amanda Charlton (Caroline in Jersey, Dissonance). Following her success of 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her amazing life through the lens of the classic sit-coms of her youth. With multi-media, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition in a world in which she sometimes does not fit.
In a home-grown production, Samuel J. and K. (July 7 – July 18) by Mat Smart (The 13th of Paris, The Hopper Collection) arrives on the Nikos after a hugely successful Fridays @ 3 reading last summer. In this hard-charging play, Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation—but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him. Samuel J. and K. challenges the traditional definitions of family and asks if a place we’ve only imagined can become home overnight. Festival Artistic Associate Justin Waldman (What is the Cause of Thunder?, The Atheist) directs.
Amy Herzog’s (Hungry, Willing) provocative new play After the Revolution (July 21 – August 1) makes its journey from the Festival’s Fellowship Project last summer to the Nikos Stage, directed by former Boris Sagal Fellow Carolyn Cantor (In a Dark, Dark House, Pumpgirl). It's 1999, and three generations of a radical leftist family meet in New York to celebrate the law school graduation of Emma, the family's youngest torch-carrier. A public revelation about her late grandfather, a victim of the blacklist, sends Emma reeling as the family begins to fracture. Shaken and betrayed, she must weigh her fierce politics and family loyalty to decide if the ends really justify the means. Developed from scratch at WTF, After the Revolution is a play about love, family secrets, and the American Left. Following Williamstown, After the Revolution will be seen in New York at Playwrights Horizons this fall.
A legendary love. A transcendent artist. Shakespeare’s classic verse meets the driving, passionate rock of iconic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley in the world premiere of The Last Goodbye (August 5 – August 20), the final show on the Nikos Stage. Conceived and adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel (The Secret Agenda of Trees) with the music and lyrics of Jeff Buckley (Grace) arranged by Kris Kukul (Kasper Hauser, WTF’s Cabaret Director), an ensemble of fourteen singer/actors bring to life the lyrical beauty of two great poets set in a world of youthful angst, grandeur and grit. Fall for Romeo and Juliet all over again in this incendiary new musical.
The Fellowship Projects
In 2005, the Williamstown Theatre Festival introduced an innovative program to develop new work called The Fellowship Projects. The program pairs talented young writers with the prestigious Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellows and ten actors from the WTF Non-Equity Company to create a new play and a new musical over the course of eight weeks. Alumni of The Fellowship Projects include Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, whose project Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson is currently playing at the Public Theatre in New York this spring, and Amy Herzog, whose After the Revolution is part of Williamstown’s 2010 Season, moving on to Playwrights Horizons this fall.
This summer, The Fellowship Musical will feature book and lyrics by Noah Haidle (Saturn Returns, Mr. Marmalade, What is the Cause of Thunder?), music by Kellys Collins and Ryan Tyndell, directed by Davis McCallum (The Belle Stratagem, Euridyce). It will play in the Directing Studio from July 19 – July 20.
The Fellowship Play will be written by Bekah Brunstetter (Oorah!, Ars Nova Playwright in residence) and directed by Kerry Whigham (Barack and Me, Oh, The Horror!). It will be seen in the Directing Studio from August 9 – August 10.
Tickets
Tickets for the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival season can be purchased online at www.wtfestival.org starting May 29 at Noon and by phone at (413) 597-3400 starting Tuesday, June 1 at 10:00 a.m.
***
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2010 SEASON SUMMARY
MAIN STAGE
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart
Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jessica Stone
Choreography by Denis Jones
Cast includes: Christopher Fitzgerald
June 30 - July 11, 2010
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
By John Guare
July 14 - July 25, 2010
OUR TOWN
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Cast includes: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Jessica Hecht, John Rubenstein and Campbell Scott
July 28 - August 8, 2010
FIFTH OF JULY
By Lanford Wilson
Directed by Terry Kinney
August 11 – 22, 2010
NIKOS STAGE
IT’S JEWDY’S SHOW: MY LIFE AS A SITCOM
By Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan
Original music by Judy Gold
Lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold
Additional material Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith
Directed by Amanda Charlton
June 23 - July 4, 2010
SAMUEL J. AND K.
By Mat Smart
Directed by Justin Waldman
July 7 – July 18, 2010
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
July 21 – August 1, 2010
THE LAST GOODBYE
A musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Conceived and adapted by Michael Kimmel
Music and lyrics by Jeff Buckley
Directed by Michael Kimmel
Orchestrations, music direction and arrangements by Kris Kukul
August 5 – 20, 2010
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL
Continuing its 56-year history under the artistic direction of Nicholas Martin, Williamstown Theatre Festival hosts award-winning actors, directors and playwrights who join forces to entertain and delight the Berkshire community of year-round and seasonal patrons. In addition to its acclaimed productions, WTF has extensive training and professional development programs for the next generation of actors, writers, directors, designers, technicians and managers. In 2002, WTF received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
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