Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012 schedule
The 2012 summer season at Williamstown Theatre Festival opens on June 26 with The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. The WTF 2012 schedule includes a Preview Production of the new musical Far From Heaven, and a new translation of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country on the Main Stage.
Nikos Stage calendar and David Byrne play at MASS MoCA
Events scheduled for the Nikos Stage include The Blue Deep, by Lucy Boyle, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, by Neil Simon, The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance and Katori Hall’s WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!. Anothe highlight of the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule is the special workshop production at nearby MASS MoCa of Here Lies Love, by David Byrne, whose other work includes rock band the Talking Heads.
Plays on the WTF Main Stage
The Importance of Being Earnest
- By Oscar Wilde
- Directed by David Hyde Pierce
- June 26 – July 14, 2012
Far From Heaven
- Book by Richard Greenberg
- Music by Scott Frankel
- Lyrics by Michael Korie
- Directed by Michael Greif
- July 19 – 29, 2012
A Month in the Country
- By Ivan Turgenev
- Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Directed by Richard Nelson
- August 1 – 19, 2012
Williamstown Theatre Festival contact info.
- 1000 Main St. – Rt. 2
- Williamstown, MA 01267
- Box office – 413-597-3400
- web: wtfestival.org
Plays on the WTF Nikos Stage
The Blue Deep
- By Lucy Boyle
- Directed by Bob Balaban
- June 27 – July 8, 2012
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
- By Neil Simon
- Directed by Jessica Stone
- July 11 – 22, 2012
The Elephant Man
- By Bernard Pomerance
- Directed by Scott Ellis
- July 25 – August 5, 2012
WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!
- By Katori Hall
- Directed by May Adrales
- August 8 – 19, 2012
WTF Productions AT MASS MOCA
Here Lies Love
- Written by David Byrne
- Music by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
- Directed by Alex Timbers
- June 21 – 24, 2012
Free theatre at WTF
At Poker Flats | The Valley of Fear
- By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Adapted by Steve Lawson
- Directed by Lila Neugebauer
- July 11 – 14, July 20 – 27, 2012