The Witching Hour Runs at Williamstown from July 25-31

Jason Cilo's The Witching Hour:Three Tales of the Unexpected, the Mysterious & the Bizarre will be presented as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Free Theatre series. Directed by Amanda Charlton, the piece will play the Main Stage at Williams College's '62 Center for Theatre and Dance from Monday, July 25th to Sunday, July 31st at 11 AM; there will also be two late-night performances on July 29th at 11 PM and July 30th at 11:30 PM.

"The Witching Hour is adapted from three different short stories. First, something is amiss as a newlywed couple gets more than they bargained for at a creepy seaside English town in Ringing the Changes. Then, a young man obsessed with radio waves tunes in a whole new world of sound in The Sound Machine. And finally, The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde's classic and hilarious take on the genre, rounds out the thrills, chills, and wickedly wry comedy," state production notes.

Leavey Ballou, Craig Colfelt, Elliotte Crowell, Van Hansis, Erin McMonagle, Nyambi Nyambi, Ben Pelteson, Jonathan Kells Phillips, Vayu O'Donnell, Rob O'Hare and Liz Wisan are featured in the cast of the play.

Cilo was an associate producer at MSNBC on "The Big Show With Keith Olbermann," and "InterNight," and then co-produced and directed the critically acclaimed documentary "Bobby Darin: Beyond The Song" for PBS. For MTV and VH1, he has been a writer and producer on a wide range of shows, including "Retrosexual: The 80's," and "Black In The Day," as well as numerous "100 Greatest" specials. Charlton is in her 5th WTF season and her 3rd season as head of the Workshop at WTF. At WTF she has produced over 60 late night Workshop shows. She is the founder and curator of the Directors Lab at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and the founder and Artistic Associate of Director's Theatre/New York. Some WTF directing credits include: Twelfth Night; Big Love; Our Country's Good; The Lover; Nobody Here But Us Chickens and On Hemlock Brook (Friday's @ 3:00 reading).

The Williamstown Theatre Festival's Free Theatre is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The 511-seat auditorium in the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williams College is located on Route 2, Williamstown, MA. While admission is free, reservations can be made by calling WTF's Box Office at (413) 597-3400.