Malick, Gets, Foster, Etc. Set for Williamstown Cabaret

This week at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, in addition to The Front Page on the Main Stage and Villa America on the Nikos Stage, the Festival offers a number of other events.

The first Late-Night Cabaret of the season runs July 12-14. Scheduled to appear are performers from Festival productions:  Patch Darragh from Dissonance and Crimes of the Heart; John Cariani, Richard Kind, Robert Stanton, and Kay Walbye from The Front Page; Matthew Bomer from Villa America; Kate Jennings Grant, Adriane Lenox and Wendie Malick from Blithe Spirit; and Hunter Foster, Malcolm Gets, Adam Heller, Kaitlin Hopkins, Kate Reinders and Chauntee Schuler from Party Come Here. Malcolm Gets directs and Kris Kukul is the music director.

The song list includes:

Our Time – Malcolm Gets and Adam Heller
Mother Nature – Adriane Lenox
We Can Do It – Richard Kind and Hunter Foster
Popular – Kate Reinders
Too Late Now – Kate Jennings Grant
Gwendolyn – John Cariani
Is That All There Is? – Wendie Malick
Stupid Things – Adam Heller
They Were You – Kay Walbye
Brother Can You Spare a Dime? – Kaitlin Hopkins
The Butler's Song – Robert Stanton
Free Falling – Patch Darragh and Matthew Bomer

Performers and songs are subject to change.  

The Late-Night Cabaret plays Thursday, July 12 and Friday, July 13 at 11pm and Saturday, July 14 at 11:30pm on the Nikos Stage.  Tickets are $25 and are available at wtfestival.org, 413.597.3400 and at the Festival box office.

In addition, there will be performances of the leapFROG program play Help Yourself, from July 16-18.

"The Festival premieres Help Yourself, a new play developed in the leapFROG program.  Help Yourself is "a wild and sexy take on the self-help industry in modern American culture." It is written by Edith Freni and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, recipient of the Festival's Boris Sagal Fellowship.  The play runs July 16 – 18 with performances each night at 8:30 and 11:00 in the Directing Studio of the '62 Center on the Williams College campus. All performances are free.  Reservations may be made at the Festival box office or by phone at 413.597.3400. Reservations may not be made online. 

Set design is by Sandra Podolsky. Lighting design is by Scott Needham. Costume design is by Jessa-Raye Court. Sound design is by Jeffrey Strange.

Help Yourself stars the members of the leapFROG Non-Equity Company: Foster Cronin, Rightor Doyle, Tommy Heleringer, David Kenner, Julie Lake, Danielle Levanas, Erica Lipez, Grace McLean, Geoffrey Murphy, and Heidi Niedermeyer.

The play contains adult content.

The leapFROG musical, The Prophet, will run August 13 – 15 at 8:30 and 11:00pm also in the Directing Studio.

Kids' Theatre Day is July 14.  "The Williamstown Theatre Festival invites families to pack a picnic and enjoy a morning of tours, activities, and performance on Saturday, July 14.  "Beginning at 9:30am, kids and their families will have the chance to tour the theatres, learn stage sword-fighting, dance with a musical pro, and design and build scenery and costumes.  After the activities, all are invited to the 11:00 performance of Free Theatre's Wing It, a new musical comedy about a young reporter's exciting journey into the kingdom of the birds. Following the show, there will be time for everyone to enjoy their picnic on the lawn.  At 12:30, the event concludes with CAKE!"

Reservations are not necessary for Kids' Theatre Day, but tickets are required for the Free Theatre production of Wing It.  Tickets are available at 413.597.3400 and the Festival box office.

Festival performances are held at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance of Williams College at 1000 Main Street (Route 2) in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The theatre is wheelchair accessible.  Visit www.wtfestival.org for more information.

First photo - Wendie Malick; second photo by Andy Tew - Barnett Cohen, Jordan Barbour and Brooke Parks in Wing It