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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - It’s not often you get to write a review that is also a preview. However, since the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s world premiere of the musical “Row” has just been released by Audible Theatre and almost simultaneously with the release it was announced it would be given a live production at the festival this summer, this is a two-for-one recommendation for the show. “Row” is one of the most satisfying works I’ve encountered in a very lon...

Consider what would help our country Published: 4/12/2021 6:52:18 AM As an independent/conservative voter I have acknowledged that Joe Biden is our president. As my liberal friends previously pointed out Biden promised that there would not be “blue states” nor “red states,” just American states and that all people would be treated equally. Well at least for the first three months, President Biden has not shown anything that would be considered working with both Reds and Blues to unify o...

Mark Kennedy NEW YORK — Huge waves couldnt stop Tori Murden McClure from becoming the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 1999. So its only fitting that a global pandemic couldnt stop a musical about her feat from making it to audiences — just not the way it was originally intended. “Row,” which was scheduled to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020, is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording...

Apr 9, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Huge waves couldn’t stop Tori Murden McClure from becoming the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 1999. So it’s only fitting that a global pandemic couldn’t stop a musical about her feat from making it to audiences — just not the way it was originally intended. “Row,” which was scheduled to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020, is instead making its world premiere this month a...

WILLIAMSTOWN — All the world’s a stage, but for Tony Award-winning theater company Williamstown Theatre Festival, its hometown in the Berkshires will become the stage this summer. After a yearlong hiatus from live, in-person theater because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival has announced a return to live performances this summer — but instead of performing indoors, in the theater’s traditional home on the campus of Williams College, at the ‘62 Center for Theatre...

Williamstown Festival Will Take the Shows Outside After a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum’s reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events. Work by the writer and actress Zora Howard will be part of “Outside on Main: Nine Solo Plays by Black Playwrights” at the 2021 Williamstown festival.Credit...Screengrab By Scott Heller April 7, 2021, 9:00 p.m. ET The Williamstown Theater Festival, which was forced by the pandemic to convert its ...

The pandemic ruined one musicals debut plans. Not for long by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press Posted Apr 8, 2021 10:21 am EDT Last Updated Apr 8, 2021 at 10:28 am EDT FILE - Rower Tori Murden appears aboard her 23-foot, American Pearl, in Bas-du-Fort in Guadeloupe on Dec. 3, 1999. A musical about Murden, who was the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo, was supposed to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020. But due to th...

Michael Arden (Photo: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) After last years Williamstown Theatre Festival season was put on Audible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 season will welcome back live audiences. Shows will play outdoors with social distancing and safety prioritized. The season will kick off on July 6 with the world premiere of Outside on Main: Nine Solo Plays by Black Playwrights, which will run through July 25. Guest curated by Slave Plays Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara,...

Williamstown Theatre Fest staging outside this summer FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3The Williamstown Theatre Festivals mainstage and Nikos Stage performances take place at the 62 Center for Theatre & Dance at Williams College. (Robert Benson / Williams College Office of Public Affairs) Show MoreShow Less 2of3The view over the reflecting pool at the new Tadao Ando-designed visitors center at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Clark Art Institute photo/www.clarkart.edu) Sho...

Mark Kennedy FILE - Rower Tori Murden, of Louisville, Ky., waves from her boat off North Carolinas Outer Banks, near Nags Head, N.C. , on June 14, 1998. A musical about Murden, who was the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 1999, was supposed to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020. But due to the global pandemic, it is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on Audible. (AP P...