Michael Arden
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After last year s 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 Play s Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara, this series of three shows celebrates Black artists and their voices through theatrical storytelling. Each performance consists of three of the nine 30-minute world premieres, created by Ngozi Anyanwu, France-Luce Benson, J. Nicole Brooks, Guadalís Del Carmen, Terry Guest, Ike Holter, Zora Howard, NSangou Njikam and Charly Evon Simpson. Written for actors of color, these productions will be helmed by directors Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones and Awoye Timpo on the front lawn of t
Williamstown Theatre Fest staging outside this summer
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The Williamstown Theatre Festival, which presented its 2020 productions in an audio format on the Audible platform, this year will perform its season outside.
One production will be on the lawn at the festival s home, the 62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College, another around the reflecting pool at the nearby Clark Art Institute, and the third is being described as an immersive theatrical experience at different spots in Willia
Mark Kennedy
FILE - Rower Tori Murden, of Louisville, Ky., waves from her boat off North Carolina s 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 Photo/Bob Jordan, File) April 08, 2021 - 7:45 AM
NEW YORK - 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 â just not the way it was originally intended.
On Thursday, the WTF s artistic director met with the town s Board of Health to discuss the summer season that the festival officially unveiled on Wednesday night. Greenfield, who told the board that she always presumes we re on the brink of disaster, said she committed to the idea of an outdoor 2021 season way back in August. At that time, I got some pushback from people saying, By next summer, we ll be ready to be back indoors, Greenfield said. I thought, Maybe, but maybe we need to stay on the most conservative course imaginable so we can be back in Williamstown.
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