Williamstown Theatre Festival Adds Late-Night Cabaret, Fridays@3 Reading Series & More to 2015 Season

Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced further programming and special events to join the 2015 summer season including: the legendary Late-Night Cabaret, the ever popular Fridays@3 Reading Series, and this summer's Developmental Workshop Series. Also announced are this year's Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellows: Dustin Wills and Adrienne Campbell-Holt.

Joining the previously announced Main Stage and Nikos Stage productions, the 61st summer Festival schedule includes numerous additional activities and events. WTF's legendary Late-Night Cabaret Series showcases the talents of the Festival artists-both established and emerging (July 16 - 18; July 30 - August 1; August 13 - 15). The ever popular Fridays@3 Reading Series includes this year's Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl and featuring Jessica Hecht (July 17), Panopticon, or The Source by Gabe McKinley directed by Jason McDowell-Green (July 24), Mrs. Whitney by John Kolvenbach directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel featuring Blythe Danner and David Rasche (July 31), the Winner of the 2014 L. Arnold Weissberger Award Kill Floor by Abe Koogler directed by Lila Neugebauer (August 7), Talk to Me of Love by Meghan Kennedy with Marisa Tomei (August 14), and The Tulip Craze by Jay Reiss (August 21). 2015 welcomes WTF's inaugural Developmental Workshop Series which features The Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien, directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes and Poster Boy by fast-rising playwright Joe Tracz with Music & Lyrics by Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominee Craig Carnelia; directed by Stafford Arima.

Additionally, each year Williamstown Theatre Festival awards the prestigious Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellowships to two up-and-coming directors, challenging them to create ambitious new work in collaboration with writers, composers, designers, and members of the Non-Equity Company. This year's Bill Foeller Fellow is Adrienne Campbell-Holt, the founding Artistic Director of NYC-based Colt Coeur, who will be directing Laura Jacqmin's Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (July 19 - 20). This year's Boris Sagal Fellow is Dustin Wills, a two-time recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Award for Theatre, who will be collaborating with composer Daniel Schlosberg on an adaptation of Federica Garcia Lorca's As Five Years Pass (August 16 - 17).

WTF's Main Stage Season begins with William Inge's Off the Main Road (June 30 - July 19), continues with the World Premiere of the 2012 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award-winner Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau (July 22 - August 2), and concludes with Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill's final masterpiece, A Moon for the Misbegotten (August 5 - August 23).

On the Nikos Stage: the world premiere of Legacy by Daniel Goldfarb (July 1 - July 12); the American premiere of Kinship by Carey Perloff (July 15 - July 25); the world premiere of the new musical Unknown Soldier with Book & Lyrics by Daniel Goldstein, Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman (July 30 - August 9); the double header of two American premieres of British playwrights Chewing Gum Dreams, written and Performed by Michaela Coel and An Intervention by Mike Bartlett (August 12 - 23).

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