WILLIAMSTOWN â All the worldâs 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 â but instead of performing indoors, in the theaterâs traditional home on the campus of Williams College, at the â62 Center for Theatre & Dance, performances will be held outdoors.
In what is being called âThe 2021 Live Season in Williamstown,â the season will include three productions mounted around Williamstown, including a production at The Clark Art Institute.
The pandemic ruined one musical s 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 the global pandemic, it is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on Audible. (AP Photo/John Riley, File)
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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
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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.
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