An experience that will rock you, nourish you, move you, and take your breath away.

Schedule of Events:

July 17, 24, 31, 2025

12pm - The Things Around Us

This solo musical and narrative stage show is a collection of seemingly unrelated stories and anecdotes that swirl and dance with a live musical score created through looped trumpet, clarinet, and drums. From acclaimed Seattle musician and writer Ahamefule J. Oluo (Now I’m Fine; Susan at On the Boards), this dark and humorous, uplifting and bleak, deep and silly work is about trying and failing to find order in chaos.

"As both a speaker and a musician, Ahamefule J. Oluo specializes in mellow anxiety. It’s a smooth but layered style that makes them highly agreeable to listen to and at the same time unexpectedly moving. The concentrated emotional force lurking in their ease of manner sneaks up on you." – The New York Times

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

2pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

4pm - The Things Around Us 

This solo musical and narrative stage show is a collection of seemingly unrelated stories and anecdotes that swirl and dance with a live musical score created through looped trumpet, clarinet, and drums. From acclaimed Seattle musician and writer Ahamefule J. Oluo (Now I’m Fine; Susan at On the Boards), this dark and humorous, uplifting and bleak, deep and silly work is about trying and failing to find order in chaos.

"As both a speaker and a musician, Ahamefule J. Oluo specializes in mellow anxiety. It’s a smooth but layered style that makes them highly agreeable to listen to and at the same time unexpectedly moving. The concentrated emotional force lurking in their ease of manner sneaks up on you." – The New York Times

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7pm - Vanessa

The "categorically imaginative and radical" (New Yorker) Heartbeat Opera is creating a brand new adaptation of Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti's Vanessa for Williamstown this summer. Samuel Barber is one of the most celebrated American composers of the twentieth century, and Vanessa was a hit upon arrival at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958 and won the Pulitzer. It could have remained in the canon as one of the great American operas of all time, but its unique brand of gothic creep and fiercely emotional music did not jive with the overly-academic tastes of the time, and over the following decades the piece receded into near-obscurity. The directors of Heartbeat Opera, "an enterprise that has already contributed more to opera's vitality than most major American opera companies," (New York Times) have planned a reinvention of this classic, stripping away the gewgaws and doilies of its original imaginings, and allowing the riveting extremes of these palpable characters to break through. Heartbeat's version pares the work down to five singers, trapped inside their own circumstances, with a new arrangement by Dan Schlosberg.

Librettist Note:

This is the story of two women, Vanessa and Erika, caught in the central dilemma which faces every human being: whether to fight for one's ideals to the point of shutting oneself off from reality, or compromise with what life has to offer, even lying to oneself for the mere sake of living. Like a sullen Greek chorus, a third woman (the old Grandmother) condemns by her very silence the refusal first of Vanessa, then of Erika, to accept the bitter truth that life offers no solution except its own inherent struggle. When Vanessa, in her final eagerness to embrace life, realizes this truth, it is perhaps too late.

—Gian Carlo Menotti

This is a Heartbeat Opera Production co-developed with and presented by Williamstown Theatre Festival

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7pm - Spirit of the People

In “one of the most hotly anticipated events in theatre” (GQ), visionary playwright Jeremy O. Harris returns with his first world premiere after his record-breaking Slave Play.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

11pm - Late at The Annex

Each weekend features a series of late night experiences. Artist line up and more information to be announced.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

July 18, 25, 2025

11am - Many Happy Returns

It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

2pm - Spirit of the People

In “one of the most hotly anticipated events in theatre” (GQ), visionary playwright Jeremy O. Harris returns with his first world premiere after his record-breaking Slave Play.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

2pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

4pm - The Things Around Us 

This solo musical and narrative stage show is a collection of seemingly unrelated stories and anecdotes that swirl and dance with a live musical score created through looped trumpet, clarinet, and drums. From acclaimed Seattle musician and writer Ahamefule J. Oluo (Now I’m Fine; Susan at On the Boards), this dark and humorous, uplifting and bleak, deep and silly work is about trying and failing to find order in chaos.

"As both a speaker and a musician, Ahamefule J. Oluo specializes in mellow anxiety. It’s a smooth but layered style that makes them highly agreeable to listen to and at the same time unexpectedly moving. The concentrated emotional force lurking in their ease of manner sneaks up on you." – The New York Times

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7pm - Spirit of the People

In “one of the most hotly anticipated events in theatre” (GQ), visionary playwright Jeremy O. Harris returns with his first world premiere after his record-breaking Slave Play.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

7pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

11pm - Late at The Annex

Each weekend features a series of late night experiences. Artist line up and more information to be announced.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7:30pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

July 19, 26, 2025

10am - Many Happy Returns

It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

1pm - Camino Real

Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”

The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

1pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

5:00pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

1pm - Camino Real

Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”

The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

1pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

5:00pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

11pm - Late at The Annex

Each weekend features a series of late night experiences. Artist line up and more information to be announced.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

July 20, 27, 2025 and August 3, 2025

11am - Many Happy Returns

It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

2pm - Camino Real

Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”

The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

2pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

6:30pm - Vanessa

The "categorically imaginative and radical" (New Yorker) Heartbeat Opera is creating a brand new adaptation of Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti's Vanessa for Williamstown this summer. Samuel Barber is one of the most celebrated American composers of the twentieth century, and Vanessa was a hit upon arrival at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958 and won the Pulitzer. It could have remained in the canon as one of the great American operas of all time, but its unique brand of gothic creep and fiercely emotional music did not jive with the overly-academic tastes of the time, and over the following decades the piece receded into near-obscurity. The directors of Heartbeat Opera, "an enterprise that has already contributed more to opera's vitality than most major American opera companies," (New York Times) have planned a reinvention of this classic, stripping away the gewgaws and doilies of its original imaginings, and allowing the riveting extremes of these palpable characters to break through. Heartbeat's version pares the work down to five singers, trapped inside their own circumstances, with a new arrangement by Dan Schlosberg.

Librettist Note:

This is the story of two women, Vanessa and Erika, caught in the central dilemma which faces every human being: whether to fight for one's ideals to the point of shutting oneself off from reality, or compromise with what life has to offer, even lying to oneself for the mere sake of living. Like a sullen Greek chorus, a third woman (the old Grandmother) condemns by her very silence the refusal first of Vanessa, then of Erika, to accept the bitter truth that life offers no solution except its own inherent struggle. When Vanessa, in her final eagerness to embrace life, realizes this truth, it is perhaps too late.

—Gian Carlo Menotti

This is a Heartbeat Opera Production co-developed with and presented by Williamstown Theatre Festival

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

July 28, 2025

7pm - The Cabaret

The Cabaret is back—and it’s bigger, bolder, and more star-studded than ever. From soaring vocals to surprise duets, The Cabaret offers a chance to experience the magic of Broadway in an intimate Berkshire setting, with the relaxed joy and spontaneity that only Williamstown can offer.

Led by celebrated Music Director Georgia Stitt, this one-night-only concert brings together powerhouse performances from Tony Award nominees and Festival favorites, including: Micaela Diamond (Parade), Amber Iman (Lempicka), Adam Kantor (Rent), Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (The Tina Turner Musical), Eleri Ward (upcoming album Internal Rituals), and Anna Zavelson (The Notebook).

This isn’t just a concert—it’s a night OUT. Premium ticket holders will enjoy a lively pre-show reception where artists and guests mingle over drinks and bites. The performance on the MainStage in the ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance (1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA) promises to be bursting with musical brilliance, heartfelt storytelling, and unexpected moments. After the final bow, the night continues with a post-show gathering for all guests—a celebration under the summer sky with Festival artists, supporters, and surprise guests at The Williams Inn 

Location: MainStage Theater – 1000 Main Street Williamstown, MA 01267

July 29, 2025

7:00 PM - Reading: White Girls Gang

Location: 225 South St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA

August 1, 2025

2pm - Spirit of the People

In “one of the most hotly anticipated events in theatre” (GQ), visionary playwright Jeremy O. Harris returns with his first world premiere after his record-breaking Slave Play.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

2pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

4pm - The Things Around Us 

This solo musical and narrative stage show is a collection of seemingly unrelated stories and anecdotes that swirl and dance with a live musical score created through looped trumpet, clarinet, and drums. From acclaimed Seattle musician and writer Ahamefule J. Oluo (Now I’m Fine; Susan at On the Boards), this dark and humorous, uplifting and bleak, deep and silly work is about trying and failing to find order in chaos.

"As both a speaker and a musician, Ahamefule J. Oluo specializes in mellow anxiety. It’s a smooth but layered style that makes them highly agreeable to listen to and at the same time unexpectedly moving. The concentrated emotional force lurking in their ease of manner sneaks up on you." – The New York Times

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7pm - Spirit of the People

In “one of the most hotly anticipated events in theatre” (GQ), visionary playwright Jeremy O. Harris returns with his first world premiere after his record-breaking Slave Play.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

7pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

11pm - Late at The Annex

Each weekend features a series of late night experiences. Artist line up and more information to be announced.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

7:30pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

August 2, 2025

10am - Many Happy Returns

It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

12pm - Many Happy Returns

It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

1pm - Camino Real

Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”

The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

1pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

5:00pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

1pm - Camino Real

Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”

The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.

Location: MainStage Theatre – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

1pm - Not About Nightingales

1938. Hitler is invading Austria, Stalin is putting on show trials, America is lynching Black people, thousands are rotting in state prisons, the world is slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, Hollywood is filming The Wizard of Oz and auditioning for Gone with the Wind, all while a 27 year old Tennessee Williams is pulling all-nighters to finish a blistering homoerotic Prison Drama. He would never live to see a production of this early masterpiece. Not About Nightingales is a front row seat to America’s prison industrial complex whose atrocities are too often avoided and denied. Director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun and Slave Play), will immerse us in this searing testament to what happens when we cage men, remove their humanity, and let them rot while the ‘outside world’ is run by rich, entitled gangsters.

Location: NikosStage Theater – 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

5:00pm - The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

“A distinguished failed writer at thirty has suspended the climax as if it were a sentence that he had the audacity not to complete.”

This is Tennessee Williams live on an ice rink—a wholly original, site-specific performance about making a plan and leaving the world of reason. Conceived by Director/Choreographer Will Davis (Men on Boats, Colossal) with Ice Choreographer Douglas Webster, and featuring special choreography by U.S. Ice Dancing champions and two-time Olympic medalists, Maia & Alex Shibutani.

Location: The Rink – 1267 South Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247

11pm - Late at The Annex

Each weekend features a series of late night experiences. Artist line up and more information to be announced.

Location: The Annex – 245 State Road, North Adams, MA 01247

Date: July 17 - August 3, 2025

Location: Various Venues in MA

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