Amelia Campbell and more have joined the July and August summer-line up of the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.
Campbell (
Tryst, Tony nominee for
Waiting in the Wings) will play spinster Hannah Jelkes in the classic Tennessee Williams Mexico-set drama
The Night of the Iguana from August 1st through 12th. She replaces Robin Weigert, who withdrew to film a movie. Directed by Andrew Cato, the production will also star the previously announced Linda Hamilton (
The Terminator movies) and Garret Dillahunt.
The festival will also feature performances by Brian Weaver,
Jack Davidson (
Glengarry Glen Ross, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
, and
Scott Lowell. Weaver will play the title role of
Terrence McNally's comedy
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, which will be performed from June 28th through July 22nd at the Unicorn Stage. The show will be directed by E. Gray Simon III.
Davidson has joined the cast of Tina Howe's romantic drama
Coastal Disturbances, which will run from July 11th through 29th in a production directed by Mark Nelson, while Lowell will join the previously announced
Kate Jennings Grant in
Wendy Wasserstein's feminist classic
The Heidi Chronicles. Maria Mileaf directs the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Peter Shaffer's
Amadeus and
Tony Kushner's
The Illusion were previously presented at the Festival.
Visit
www.berkshiretheatre.org for more information.
