Williamstown Theatre Festival
Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival. For over six decades, Williamstown Theatre Festival has brought emerging and professional theatre artists together in the Berkshires to create a thrilling summer festival of diverse, world premiere plays and musicals, bold new revivals, and a rich array of accompanying cultural events. For 67 years, artists have been drawn to Williamstown Theatre Festival to make great theatre in an environment conducive to artistic risk-taking. Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, Dominique Morisseau, Mary-Louise Parker, Susan Stroman, Uma Thurman, and Blair Underwood are just a few of the luminous theatre artists who have worked at the Festival. Many others, including Chris Pine, Kate Hudson, Paul Giamatti, Allison Janney, Brie Larson, George C. Wolfe, and Kiefer Sutherland, began their careers at the Festival. In addition, Williamstown Theatre Festival continues to grow new programs. Among the thriving new initiatives are COMMUNITY WORKS—a one-of-a-kind community-engaged theatre program—and the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program, through which new work is created year-round by theatre artists including Jocelyn Bioh, Nathan Alan Davis, Halley Feiffer, Justin Levine, Matthew Lopez, Jiehae Park, Benjamin Scheuer, and many others. Productions and artists shaped at the Festival fill theatres in New York City and around the world. In the abbreviated 2019-20 theatrical season alone, Williamstown Theatre Festival was represented or scheduled to be represented on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally by THE SOUND INSIDE and GRAND HORIZONS, both of which received Tony Award nominations for Best Play, THE ROSE TATTOO, SEARED, SELLING KABUL, UNKNOWN SOLDIER, MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW, and LEMPICKA. COST OF LIVING, which was developed and premiered at WTF, was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.www.wtfestival.org
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Oct 2, 2026
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm not excited about anything because I do think that in this moment we are in a crisis moment in the American theater.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm running the Williamstown Theatre Festival right now.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
Um, it is, it is having its hardest time raising money in the time when there...
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I've know, I know more rich people than I've ever know, right? The, the people that I know that are rich are richer than they've ever been, and it's not just Williamstown that's having this problem, it is every major off-Broadway theater, and you can tell from their programming.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm not excited about anything because I do think that in this moment we are in a crisis moment in the American theater.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm running the Williamstown Theatre Festival right now.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
Um, it is, it is having its hardest time raising money in the time when there, I've know, I know more rich people than I've ever known, right? The, the people that I know that are rich are richer than they've ever been, and it's not just Williamstown that's having this problem.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
It is every major off-Broadway theater, and you can tell from their programming.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm not excited about anything because I do think that in this moment we are in a crisis moment in the American theater.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I'm running the Williamstown Theatre Festival right now.
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
Um, it is, it is having its hardest time raising money in the time when there ...
Jeremy O. HarrisGUEST
I've know, I know more rich people than I've ever known, right? The, the people that I know that are rich are richer than they've ever been, and it's not just Williamstown that's having this problem.
Stephanie LaytonGUEST
There was this, um, this cabaret called the Williamstown...
Stephanie LaytonGUEST
It was the W- It was, like, the Williamstown Theatre Festival Cabaret.
Stephanie LaytonGUEST
Um, I did two summers there, and it's, like, a variety show.
Matthew BakerHOST
Mm-hmm.
Matthew BakerHOST
Yeah.
Stephanie LaytonGUEST
And that was the huge thing about it.
Stephanie LaytonGUEST
They called it the, the, the WTF Cabaret, 'cause Williamstown Theatre Festival, but also-
Louis FoxHOST
That's funny.