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Marisa Tomei, Jessica Hecht, and Blythe Danner Join Williamstown Theater Reading Series

Supplemental programming has been announced for the annual summer theater.

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| Berkshires |

May 21, 2015

Marisa Tomei will be part of the cast of a reading of Meghan Kennedy's Talk to Me of Love.
Marisa Tomei will be part of the cast of a reading of Meghan Kennedy's Talk to Me of Love.
(© David Gordon)

Additional programming has been announced for this summer's season at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Newly announced are the titles that will be included as part of the Fridays@3 reading series. They include Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth featuring Jessica Hecht (July 17), Gabe McKinley's Panopticon, or The Source (July 24), John Kolvenbach's Mrs. Whitney, featuring Blythe Danner and David Rasche (July 31), Abe Koogler's Kill Floor (August 7), Talk to Me of Love by Meghan Kennedy, featuring Marisa Tomei (August 14), and Jay Reiss' The Tulip Craze (August 21).

Developmental workshops include Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls, directed by Garry Hynes, and Poster Boy, a new musical by Craig Carnelia and Joe Tracz.

Fellowship projects include Dental Society Midwinter Meeting by Laura Jacqmin, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and As Five Years Pass by Federico García Lorca, adapted and directed by Dustin Wills.

The Williamstown Late-Night Cabaret Series will take place July 16-18, July 30-August 1, and August 13-15 at the Sanctuary.

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