Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Fridays@3 reading series is a renowned program for the development and discovery of new work! The 2022 Fridays@3 readings will happen throughout the season. Spend the afternoon up close and personal with a play in development, read by brilliant actors!

All Fridays@3 readings take place on the Nikos Stage at the ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance (1000 Main Street, Williamstown).

JULY 8
Abortion Road Trip
by Rachel Lynett 
directed by Jess McLeod
cast featuring Francis Benhamou, Carmen LoBue, Rami Margron, Emma Ramos, and Shayna Small

Sisters Minnie and Lexa hire Driver to take them on a road trip from Houston to Albuquerque for Lexa to get an abortion. While on their journey, the three women discuss the baggage they carry with them and how the circumstances leading to three very different abortions shaped them into who they are.

Representatives from the Elizabeth Freeman Center in the Berkshires will join director Jess McLeod for a special WTF-led panel discussion of Abortion Road Trip. The discussion will immediately follow the reading of the play’s first act. Panelists will share resources and information on reproductive rights.

JULY 15
God Save The Queer
by Zackary Grady 
directed by Portia Krieger
cast featuring Sebastian Beacon, Carol Mazhuvancheril, Talene Monahon, Laila Robins, and Robin Lord Taylor

In the year 2046, Prince George is now in his thirties, married to a man, and next in line for the British throne. But when he and his husband share news with his sister, Princess Charlotte, and his brother, Prince Louis, a sibling fight breaks out that could destroy not only their family but one of the last surviving monarchies in the world.

JULY 22 
And Then We Were No More
by Tim Blake Nelson 
directed by Mark Wing-Davey
cast featuring David Aaron Baker, Bree Elrod, Henry Stram, Maura Tierney, and Quincy Tyler Bernstine

A lawyer fights for the life of her client in a near future in which criminals deemed “beyond rehabilitation” become no more.

AUGUST 5
tiny father
by Mike Lew (WTF’s 2022 Jay Harris Commission recipient)
WTF’s 2022 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award Winner
directed by Moritz von Steulpnagel
cast featuring Andy Lucien and Maureen Sebastian

After Daniel unexpectedly finds himself the father of a months-premature baby, his only guide to the strange purgatory of hospital life in the NICU is a grizzled, oversharing nurse named Caroline.

Program, casting, and COVID-19 protocols are subject to change.

TICKETS ARE $10; RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED; LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not typically offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person, but for information about any show, we encourage you to contact the Box Office at (413) 458-3253.