NYT: Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here’s How It’s Changing.
NYT: Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here’s How It’s Changing.
MezzA101
Broadway Star Joined: 3/29/23
GottaGetAGimmick420
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/23
#2NYT: Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here’s How It’s Changing.
Posted: 7/16/25 at 7:54am
Brings Harris in to transform WTF
then, spends an additional few million on less programming
???????
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Audra Gypsy show watch count: 2
Dream Rose Replacements: Sheryl Lee Ralph
#3NYT: Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here’s How It’s Changing.
Posted: 7/16/25 at 8:41am
Fewer performances doesn’t mean less programming. Considering that WTF has been on life support for the last several years — and was nearly killed by the previous artistic director who should have been sacked long before she got the hook — having a season with actual productions and a few big names feels like a return to form.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#4NYT: Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here’s How It’s Changing.
Posted: 7/16/25 at 8:43am
Last year (and the years before) they barely produced anything. Costs have also been driven up post-pandemic, especially now that they’re actually paying people.
I hope the model works. It’s different and audacious, and it’s always heartening to see legacy institutions taking big swings when so many others are scaling back programming or being more conservative.
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