2004 Season
August 11 - August 22 Main Stage
Chekhov returns to the Main Stage as part of WTF's great tradition of presenting the classics in breathtaking revivals. What better finale to our fiftieth season, and more fitting farewell to the Adams Memorial Theatre before its renovation, than Chekhov's last and most poignant drama. The old world is giving way to the new, but the Gaevs have neglected to... Read MoreAugust 11 - August 22 Nikos Stage
Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class) writes about a couple's love affair with the theatre. Lou and Jessie Nuncle run a children's theatre in a mall in upstate New York. With the possibility of taking over an abandoned vaudeville palace, the Nuncles are forced to examine how far their love of theatre will take them. A World Premiere.... Read MoreAugust 5 - August 14 Free Theatre | Buxton School Field
Evan Cabnet, the director of 2003’s Ubu The King, returns to WTF with a play that has influences of Alice in Wonderland, Arabian Nights, and The Wizard of Oz. Haroun is the skeptical son of Rashid, a storyteller known as the Shah of Blah. Tired of Rashid’s constant yarn-spinning, Haroun complains, “What’s the use of stories if they aren’t even... Read MoreJuly 28 - August 8 Main Stage
"The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there." And so goes Noel Coward’s classic comedy, a carousel of Bohemian love, passion and friendship that goes from charming to shocking and from London to Paris to New York. Directed by Gregory... Read MoreAugust 4 - August 6 Nikos Stage
Eurydice is writer Sarah Ruhl’s retelling of the ancient Greek myth of love and loss told from the point of view of Eurydice. Eurydice’s true love is the most amazing musician in the world. On her wedding day, she encounters an interesting, nasty man and finds herself tumbling into an underworld of forgetfulness and discovery.July 21 - August 1 Nikos Stage
R shomon: A park. A thief. A priest. A psychic. A murder. A miracle. A lie. The truth. A World Premiere new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (Broadway’s The Wild Party), suggested from short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, that explores the many facets of reality, faith and love with a contemporary, lush score.July 14 - July 25 Main Stage
Shakespeare’s most magical play alights on the Main Stage replete with lovers, fairies, music, mirth and a bumbling company of actors. A company of WTF’s beloved (and not bumbling) actors, guided by WTF mainstay Nicholas Martin will transform the theatre into a summertime vision of loveliness filled with laughter, vivifying one of Shakespeare’s most cherished romantic comedies.July 7 - July 18 Nikos Stage
A World Premiere from the playwright of James Joyce's The Dead. It’s Rome, 1962, but to a group of visiting Americans it feels more like the far edge of the known world. Rodney, a movie actor, is filming one of the first "Spaghetti Westerns." With him are his twenty-five year old daughter, his recently widowed sister, his manager, and his... Read MoreJune 24 - July 10 Main Stage
What a way to kick off WTF’s 50th Season! Our inimitable late-night Cabaret goes Main Stage when we present an all-star Cabaret as only Williamstown can do, along with a big band sound and more razzle dazzle than ever before. This once in a lifetime event will feature the toast of Broadway along with all-time WTF favorites on stage creating... Read MoreJune 23 - July 4 Nikos Stage
Theresa Rebeck, writer of the recent Off-Broadway hits Omnium Gatherum and Bad Dates, brings a powerful new drama to WTF. Richard returns to his family home after 17 years to reconcile with his estranged wife, Helen, and their two children. The mysteries of time and memory are awakened along with Helen’s simmering rage, and the play moves through comedy to... Read MoreExplore the WTF Production Archive
Find Us
By Phone: (413) 458-3200
By Email: wtfinfo@archive.wtfestival.org
By Snail Mail: PO Box 517
Williamstown, MA 01267