Chasing the Cool at Williamstown Theatre Festival
This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers.
All Stories About Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Subtext: Jonathan Payne and the Sea of Stories
This month Brian speaks with the playwright about striving to write one play a year and drawing inspiration from various roles and identities.
Kit Ingui Joins Williamstown Theatre Festival Leadership Team
Ingui will serve as the organization’s managing director, operations & advancement, starting this November.
This Month in Theatre History
August has been a month of strikes, disagreement, recovery, the coming and going of influential festivals, and a belated Broadway triumph.
The Other Side of Summer
How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
Jeremy O. Harris to Head Williamstown’s New Creative Collective
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
Windham-Campbell Prizes, L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Raphael Picciarelli Joins Williamstown Leadership Team
As managing director of strategy and transformation, Picciarelli will work with yet-to-be-named partners in a new collective leadership model.
Clarence Coo Wins Williamstown’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award
The award comes with a $10,000 prize and an accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission for a new play, to be read at the festival this summer.
If Internships Go Away, What’s Next for the Next Generation?
As theatres scrap training programs that have often been more exploitive than educational in favor of paid positions, entry-level work may grow both scarcer and more equitably accessible.
