WTF Announces Local Casting Call For A DOLL'S HOUSE

Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) announced today that it will be casting the final roles for A Doll's House from the local community. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House will run on the Nikos Stage July 20, 2011 through July 31, 2011, opening July 21, 2011 at 7:30p.m.

Calling for: Ivar (a boy, age 8), Emmy (a girl, age 6), and a friendly, well trained dog, preferably but not necessarily a Labrador retriever, to play the family pet. Auditions will be held Friday, July 1st at 6p.m. Parents and pet owners please email submissions to Adam Dworkin at workshopasst@wtfestival.org. Submissions must include a picture, a brief description including any stage experience; and a confirmation of availability for all rehearsals and performance dates. Rehearsals are July 5th through July 19th with performances July 20th through July 31st.

Williamstown Theatre Festival continues its history of outreach to the community for local talent. In 2008, local performers were used in the production of Three Sisters and last year community members were cast as townspeople in Our Town. Opening up roles to the immediate community provides a way for WTF to involve local talent and thank our hosts, Williamstown as well as the larger Berkshire community, for welcoming WTF each year.

Sam Gold directs Josh Hamilton (Three Sisters, "Louie") as Torvald, ELiza Huberth (Camp Monster at WTF; Booth: The Musical ) as Helene, Zainab Jah (Trojan Women) as the Nanny Matthew Maher (Gone Baby Gone) as Doctor Rank, Lily Rabe (Crimes of the Heart at WTF; The Merchant of Venice) as Nora, Adam Rothenberg ( Mother of Invention at WTF; Mad Money) as Krogstad, and Lili Taylor (Landscape of the Body at WTF; Public Enemies) as Mrs. Linde.

Nora Helmer has everything an affluent housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, a bright future. When a carelessly buried secret rises to the surface, her well-calibrated, though artificial, domestic ideal begins to crumble. Terrified by this new reality, Nora must choose between outward perfection and inner truth. Still bracingly relevant, Ibsen's masterpiece, in a striking contemporary translation, offers no safer conclusions today than when it stormed stages of 19th-century Europe.

TICKETS AND SCHEDULE
Tickets for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival season are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.wtfestival.org, by phone at (413) 597-3400 or in person at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St. (Route 2), Williamstown, MA 02167. New curtain times for all Main Stage and Nikos Stage shows are as follows: Tuesday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Saturday & Sunday at 2:00 p.m. For more schedule details, visit www.wtfestival.org.

Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Williamstown Theatre Festival brings award-winning actors, directors, and playwrights to the Berkshires, engaging a loyal audience of both residents and summer visitors. A WTF season covers a broad range of theatrical endeavors, revisiting classic plays with exciting new productions on its Main Stage, developing and nurturing bold new works on the Nikos Stage, and offering audiences a rich array of cultural events including Free Theatre, Late-Night Cabarets, readings, workshops, and educational programs like the Greylock Theatre Project-a program for children in neighboring North Adams. While best known for its acclaimed productions, WTF is also home to unparalleled training and professional development programs serving new generations of aspiring theatre artists and managers. WTF was honored with the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 2002 and The Commonwealth Award for Achievement in 2011. The Festival welcomes Jenny Gersten as its new Artistic Director for the 2011 season.

Williamstown Theatre Festival
2011 SEASON SUMMARY

MAIN STAGE

Three Hotels
By Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Robert Falls
Cast includes: Maura Tierney, Steven Weber
June 29 - July 24, 2011

She Stoops to Conquer
By Oliver Goldsmith
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Cast includes: Brooks Ashmanskas, Mia Barron, Richard Easton, Holley Fain, Kristine Nielsen, Jon Patrick Walker, Jeremy Webb, Paxton Whitehead
July 27 - August 7, 2011

Ten Cents a Dance
Conceived and Directed by John Doyle
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Cast includes: Diana DiMarzio, Malcolm Gets, Donna McKechnie, Lauren Molina, Jane Pfitsch, Jessica Wright
August 11 - August 28, 2011

NIKOS STAGE

A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by David Cromer
Cast includes: Michael Cohen, Jennifer Engstrom, Jessica Hecht, Vella Lovell, Ana Reeder, Sam Rockwell, Emily Simoness, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Lou Sumrall, Luis Vega, Kirby Ward
June 22 - July 3, 2011

One Slight Hitch
By Lewis Black
Directed by Joe Grifasi
Cast includes: Clea Alsip, Ben Cole, Megan Ketch, Mark Linn-Baker, Justin Long, Lizbeth MacKay, Jenna Philips
July 6 - 17, 2011

A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Paul Walsh
Directed by Sam Gold
Cast includes: Josh Hamilton, ELiza Huberth, ZinabJah, Matthew Maher, Lily Rabe, Adam Rothenberg, Lili Taylor
July 20 - 31, 2011

Touch(ed)
By Bess Wohl
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast includes: Michael Chernus, Lisa Joyce, MerrittWever
August 3 - 14, 2011

You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents' divorce
Written by Anne Kauffman, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer R. Morris, Janice Paran, and Robbie Collier Sublett
Conceived by Jennifer R. Morris
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Cast includes: Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer R. Morris, Robbie Collier Sublett
August 16 - 21, 2011 (one week only!

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