This year’s Williamstown Theatre Festival is looking as starry as ever! Grey’s Anatomy’s Kate Walsh, Justin Long (last season’s An Intervention and Legacy), Grace Gummer (Arcadia) and more have been tapped for the upcoming summer season, which is scheduled to kick off on June 28 and run through August 21.
On the Main Stage, Christopher Abbott (Girls), Katie Lee Hill (The Wildness), Darren Pettie (Mad Men), Will Pullen (Goat), Lindsay Mendez (Wicked) and Constance Shulman (Orange is the New Black) will join the previously announced Marisa Tomei in The Rose Tattoo. The production is scheduled to run June 28 through July 17.
They will be followed by Long, along with Connie Ray (Stuart Little) and Andrew Weems (Born Yesterday), who will appear in the world premiere comedy Romance Novels For Dummies from July 20 through July 31.
Finally, Walsh and Gummer will join Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Ruined), Roe Hartrampf (Nobody Loves You), Stephen Kunken (Billions), Tony nominee Deborah Rush (Orange is the New Black) in An American Daughter from August 3 through August 21.
Action over at the Nikos Stage will include Gregg Mozgala (Downsizing Camus), Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot) and Wendell Pierce (The Wire) in the world premiere Cost of Living (June 29—July 10). Carson Elrod (Peter and the Starcatcher), Sue Jean Kim (Bachelorette), Brían F. O’Byrne (Doubt) who replaces the previously announced Michael Stuhlbarg and Laila Robins (Homeland) in the world premiere sci-fi comedy thriller The Chinese Room (July 13—July 23). And Jerry Dixon (If/Then), Jose Llana (The King and I), Katie Lee Hill, Stephen Wallem (Nurse Jackie) and Noah Zachary (Dear Edwina) in the world premiere musical Poster Boy (July 27—August 7).