Jonathan Marc Sherman's World Premiere Of KNICKERBOCKER Opens At Williamstown 7/8

Artistic Director Nicholas Martin opens the 2009 Nikos Stage season directing the world-premiere of Knickerbocker by Jonathan Marc Sherman (Women and Wallace, Sophistry, Things We Want) playing July 8-19.

The cast includes Brooks Ashmanskas (Tony Award Nomination - Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Ritz, She Loves Me), Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent, The Chronicles of Narnia, Things We Want), Bob Dishy (Tony Award Nomination - Sly Fox, The Price), Rightor Doyle (The Nosemaker's Apprentice), Annie Parisse ("Law & Order," Becky Shaw), Susan Pourfar (The Singing Forest, Swimming in the Shallows), and Reg Rogers (Tony Award Nomination - Holiday, The Understudy).

The design team for Knickerbocker includes set designer Alexander Dodge, costume designer Gabriel Berry, lighting designer Philip Rosenberg, and sound designer Alex Neumann. The production stage manager is Jillian M. Oliver.

"Are you ready?" The question looms over Jerry as the months tick by and his unborn son grows from the size of a peach to the size of, well, a baby. As the birth date creeps ever nearer, will the advice, encouragement and warnings of friends and family make Jerry more or less ready? The awe and terror of becoming a new parent shines through Sherman's newest comedy as he examines whether one can ever truly be ready for parenthood.

Ticketing information for the 2009 Season at Williamstown can be obtained online at www.wtfestival.org or by calling 413-597-3400.

Continuing its 55-year history under the artistic direction of Nicholas Martin, the Williamstown Theatre Festival is a celebration of theatre that brings together a vast array of award-winning actors, directors and playwrights to entertain and delight the Berkshire community of year-round and seasonal patrons. Every summer, WTF revisits the classics in exciting new productions on its Main Stage, develops and nurtures new work on its Nikos Stage, and offers audiences varied cultural events across its many other venues including Free Theatre, Late-Night Cabarets, readings, workshops and other special events, including the Greylock Theatre Project-a program for youngsters in North Adams area. In addition to its acclaimed productions, WTF has extensive training and professional development programs for the next generation of aspiring theatre artists and managers. In 2002, WTF received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre

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