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Williamstown Theatre Festival

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A winner of a 2002 Tony Award and a 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Commonwealth Award, the Williamstown Theatre Festival is a resident summer theater on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, founded in 1954 by Williams College news director, Ralph Renzi, and drama program chairman, David C. Bryant. [1]

43 relations: Anton Chekhov, Arvin Brown, Austin Pendleton, Bertolt Brecht, Blythe Danner, Bradley Cooper, Broadway theatre, Calista Flockhart, Christopher Reeve, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst, E. G. Marshall, Frank Langella, George Bernard Shaw, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jean Anouilh, Kate Burton (actress), Keith Fowler, Mandy Greenfield, Marcia Henderson, Matthew Broderick, Michael Ritchie (artistic director), Nathan Lane, Nikos Psacharopoulos, Olympia Dukakis, One Mo' Time (musical), Paul Giamatti, Peter H. Hunt, Richard Chamberlain, Roger Rees, Rosemary Harris, Sigourney Weaver, Summer stock theatre, Tennessee Williams, The Bridges of Madison County (musical), The Man Who Had All the Luck, Theatre, Theatre World, Tom Stoppard, Tony Award, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Yale School of Drama.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Arvin Brown

Arvin Brown (born May 24, 1940) is an American theatre and television director and was the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut for 30 years.

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Austin Pendleton

Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Blythe Danner

Blythe Katherine Danner Paltrow (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress.

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress.

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Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor.

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Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943) is an American actor of screen and stage who has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), as well as music videos by many popular recording artists.

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Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Rose Dewhurst (3 June 1924 – 22 August 1991) was a Canadian-American actress.

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E. G. Marshall

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Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress, singer, and food writer.

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.

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Kate Burton (actress)

Katherine "Kate" Burton (born September 10, 1957) is a Swiss-born British actress, daughter of actor Richard Burton and Sybil Burton.

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Keith Fowler

Keith Franklin Fowler (born February 23, 1939) is an American actor, director, producer, and educator.

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Mandy Greenfield

Mandy Greenfield is the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival, the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

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Marcia Henderson

Marcia Anne Prestlien (née Henderson; July 22, 1929 – November 23, 1987) was an American actress.

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Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor, stage actor and singer.

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Michael Ritchie (artistic director)

Michael Ritchie (born on October 17, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American artistic director of Center Theatre Group, overseeing the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

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Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor and writer.

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Nikos Psacharopoulos

Nikos Psacharopoulos (born Athens, January 18, 1928, died St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, on January 12, 1989) was an American theater producer, director, and educator.

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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress.

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One Mo' Time (musical)

One Mo' Time is a musical revue conceived by Vernel Bagneris.

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Paul Giamatti

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, and producer.

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Peter H. Hunt

Peter Huls Hunt (born December 19, 1938) is an American theatre, film, and television director and theatrical lighting designer.

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Richard Chamberlain

George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American stage and screen actor and singer, who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966).

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Roger Rees

Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work.

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Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English born actress known for her role as Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.

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Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949), known professionally as Sigourney Weaver, is an American actress.

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Summer stock theatre

In American theater, summer stock theatre is a theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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The Bridges of Madison County (musical)

The Bridges of Madison County is a musical, based on Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.

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The Man Who Had All the Luck

The Man Who Had All the Luck is a play by Arthur Miller.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Theatre World

Theatre World first published in 1945, is the only comprehensive, annual pictorial and statistical record of American theatre in print publication, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre, as well as a complete national theatrical awards section and obituaries.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

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Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States.

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Yale School of Drama

The Yale School of Drama (also known as YSD) is a graduate professional school of Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamstown_Theatre_Festival

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