Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces Additional Casting; Ellen Barkin, Thomas Sadoski, and More

Williamstown Theatre Festival announced today additional casting for the 2019 summer season, including Ellen Barkin, André Braugher, Priscilla Lopez, Thomas Sadoski, Bernard White, JoBeth Williams, and many more. The 2019 season kicks off June 25, 2019 and runs through August 18, 2019.

Joining the previously announced casts are: Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie Award winner André Braugher, Sullivan Jones, Matthew Saldivar, Keith Randolph Smith, and Antonio Michael Woodard in A Human Being, of a Sort (June 26 - July 7); Tony and Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Ellen Barkin, Drama Desk Award winner Cassie Beck, Kyle Beltran, and Obie and Drama Desk Award winner Midori Francis in Before the Meeting (August 7 - August 18); Kyle Beltran, Eboni Flowers, Joe Goldammer, Mandi Masden, Nikiya Mathis, and Warner Miller in A Raisin in the Sun (June 25 - July 13); Bernard White in Ghosts (July 31 - August 18); Obie Award winner Mark Blum in Tell Me I'm Not Crazy (July 24 - August 3); and Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Award winner Priscilla Lopez, Screen Actors Guild Award winner Maulik Pancholy, and Obie Award winner and Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee Thomas Sadoski in Grand Horizons (July 17 - July 28). In addition, Academy, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award nominee JoBeth Williams joins the cast of Grand Horizons; Williams replaces the previously announced Mary Steenburgen, who had to withdraw due to scheduling conflicts.

Additional programming and events, as well as further casting and creative team information, will be announced at a later date. Advance single ticket reservations are available now at www.wtfestival.org.

For over six decades, Williamstown Theatre Festival, recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and the Commonwealth Award for Achievement, has brought emerging and professional theatre artists together to create a thrilling summer festival of premiere work alongside fresh, new productions of the western canon, accompanying cultural events including COMMUNITY WORKS and Late-Night Cabarets, and readings and workshops of new plays. Under Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield, WTF launched the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program, through which theatre artists, including Jocelyn Bioh, Nathan Alan Davis, Halley Feiffer, Justin Levine, Matthew Lopez, Marsha Norman, Jiehae Park, Zoe Sarnak, Benjamin Scheuer, and many others, create new work supported by a year-round play development program. WTF runs unmatched training programs for new generations of theatre talent, and artists and productions shaped at the Festival fill theatres in New York, London, and around the country each season. Williamstown Theatre Festival's productions of The Bridges of Madison County, The Elephant Man, Fool for Love, Living on Love, and The Visit enjoyed critically acclaimed runs on Broadway, with The Elephant Man and The Visit receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Revival of a Play and Best Revival of a Musical, respectively. In addition, the Festival's world premiere productions of Cost of Living (winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and Actually played acclaimed Off-Broadway runs at Manhattan Theatre Club, and Paradise Blue had an extended run at Signature Theatre in New York.

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