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WTF HAPPENED IN 2016


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Building upon the Festival’s sixty-two-year history of creating excellent work, our 2016 season featured an exhilarating combination of artistic risk-taking and achievement.  Marisa Tomei opened the season in a “buoyant, memorable, inventive, and striking” production (New York Times) of Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, with a performance that Observer called “a one-woman fireworks display.”  After critically acclaimed runs at WTF,... Read More

2017 WTF GALA

March 13 TAO Downtown in NYC (92 Ninth Ave)
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ONLINE AUCTION  - BID NOW! Details about the 2017 WTF Gala are below - we hope to see you there!  In the meantime, you can support the Festival by bidding generously on our one-of-a-kind auction packages.  Click here to see what's available and begin bidding!  Please contact Grace Singleton at 212.395.9090 x110 or grace@wtfestival.org for more information.   Please join... Read More

Between The Lines: Poster Boy


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Pictured (L to R): Taylor Trensch and Jose Llana. Photograph by Daniel Rader. BETWEEN THE LINES – POSTER BOY: A weekly look at the creative process through a literary lens.  PART I: Poster Boy writer Joe Tracz, composer-lyricist Craig Carnelia, and director Stafford Arima were joined by WTF playwright-in-residence Harrison David Rivers to talk about the world premiere musical, Poster Boy. [HARRISON... Read More

TONY® AWARD-WINNING WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING & CASTING FOR THE 2016 SUMMER SEASON


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Press Contact: Rick Miramontez / Molly Barnett / Matthew Troillett rick@omdkc.com / molly@omdkc.com / matthew@omdkc.com 212 695 7400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE TONY® AWARD-WINNING WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING & CASTING FOR THE 2016 SUMMER SEASON LATE-NIGHT CABARET SERIES, FRIDAYS@3 SERIES, THE 2016 BORIS SAGAL AND BILL FOELLER FELLOWSHIP PROJECTS AND FURTHER CASTING FOR MAIN STAGE AND NIKOS STAGE... Read More

Poster Boy

July 27 - August 7 Nikos Stage
2016 Season

Music and Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
Book by Joe Tracz
Movement by Danny Mefford
Directed by Stafford Arima
With Jerry Dixon, Katie Lee Hill, Jose Llana, Ned Riseley, Taylor Trensch, Levin Valayil, Stephen Wallem, Noah Zachary

World Premiere 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 by Tony Award-nominated composer Craig Carnelia and playwright Joe Tracz. A community of gay men in an online chat room come together to discover what drove one of their own to take... Read More

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