More casting has been revealed for Williamstown Theatre Festival's upcoming season, including a starry cast for director Dustin Wills' revival of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real. Running July 19-August 3 on the MainStage, the production will feature Pamela Anderson (Chicago, The Last Showgirl) as Marguerite, Emmy winner Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Kilroy, and Whitney Peak as Esmerelda.
Starring in Williams' Not About Nightingales (running July 17-August 3 on the NikosStage) will be Brian Geraghty as Butch, William Jackson Harper, Sydney Lemmon (Job) as Eva, and Chris Messina as Warden Whalen. Robert O'Hara is directing.
Also newly announced are the dates for the Festival's world premiere of Jeremy O. Harris' Spirit of the People, which will run July 17-August 1, in a staging directed by the newly announced Katina Medina Mora. The work, according to press notes, "confronts uncomfortable truths about land and what it means to destroy it."
Opera director R.B. Schlather will helm a new adaptation of Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti's Vanessa July 17-August 3 at The Annex, a production of Heartbeat Opera; and Untitled on Ice July 18-August 2 at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Skating Rink. The latter piece, conceived, directed, and choreographed by Will Davis, will feature choreography by two-time Olympic medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani.
Additional casting and creative team members are to be announced.
The upcoming season is being led by Creative Collective Creative Director Harris, part of a new leadership structure for the Festival created to ensure boundary-breaking and diverse programming. That collective also includes Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder of Library Science, Christopher Rudd, and Alex Stoclet.
"I want to give myself and you, our audience, something unifying to hold onto. A theme. And because I am queer, Southern, and a playwright who enjoys a nice dinner and a better martini, I thought what better theme to unify a season at the historic Williamstown Theatre Festival than Williams, Tennessee," said Harris in an earlier statement. "Throughout the summer of 2025, I invite you to wander through multi-genre theatrical experiences: culinary, musical, choreographic, operatic鈥� in search of the Williams that exists within them. In some cases, as is the case in our mainstage show Camino Real, the connection to Williams will be literal. In other offerings the relation might be further afield, yet the sense that each is asking questions about our canon and what鈥檚 been birthed from it should permeate throughout. Because when taking on this role, the only thing I knew to be true of a theatre festival is that it is a site for experimentation and a site to question who tells our stories and why they tell them the way they do.鈥�
Further programming for the season is to be announced.
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