Berkshire stages are stirring with life, as WAM welcomes a new artistic director and Williamstown Theatre announces two new leadership roles ... and asks searching questions.
Read articleWhat remarkable plays could then be born?
If a theater community were as diverse and representative as humankind, what work could theater makers create today? Williamstown Theater Festival has opened a conversation …
Read articleBlues music recalls summer plays and family stories
It’s 20 years ago now that Ruben Santiago-Hudson brought Lackawanna Blues to the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He’s gone on to Broadway and the Tonys ... and I remember.
Read articleWilliamstown Theatre Festival navigates a summer of changes
Williamstown Theatre Festival is navigating a summer of substantial change, and interns and staff share their view behind the scenes as the theater works to transform its own culture.
Read articleAlien/Nation brings the 1960s into the future
In the dark on an early spring morning, students walked into a college building. They wanted places to live and eat and study where they could feel safe. … They wanted to be heard. And they were willing to risk their lives.
Read articleNine playwrights celebrate Black Radical Imagination
Eartha Kitt is singing in the year 2043, and the future is a complex and raw and beautiful place … In nine new plays, actors are traveling in space and time, from a moon of Mars to Haiti, to Brooklyn on a summer night.
Read articleCome out and play? (June 30 newsletter)
Salsa and King Lear, live music and new work … We’re coming to the part of the summer when the music and the photos and the movement can tell the story themselves.
Read articleBerkshire creative places are adapting to a virtual world
I’ve been talking with Berkshire creative places as they try to navigate in the physically distanced world coronavirus has created and reconnect online.
Read articleŁempicka new musical brings Parisian art to Williamstown Theatre Festival
In a studio at night, two women are holding each other. The room smells of paint and turpentine and smoke and sweat. An artist trying to build a career and raise a daughter comes to a bar after her first big opening and meets a woman who has always lived on […]
Read article‘The Clean House’ cracks open love, illness and joy at Williamstown Theater Festival
A woman with a spreading illness sits on a balcony, tasting apples by the sea. A younger friend sits with her, warm and afraid at the same time. The younger woman has recently lost her parents, and she remembers them alive and in love. “They laugh until laughing makes them […]
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