Epstein, Grant, Harrison, et al. Set for Berkshire Theatre Festival

The complete 2006 season of the Berkshire Theatre Festival has been announced. As previously reported on TheaterMania, the BTF mainstage season will include Tina Howe’s Coastal Disturbances, starring Annie Parisse and Jeremy Davidson (July 11-29), and Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, starring Linda Hamilton, Robin Weigert, and Garret Dillahunt.

The mainstage season will begin with Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus (June 20-July 8), starring Queer as Folk‘s Randy Harrison as Mozart and Boston-area favorite Jonathan Epstein as Salieri. Concluding the season will be Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winner The Heidi Chronicles (August 15-September 2), directed by Maria Mileaf and starring Kate Jennings Grant, who appeared on Broadway in Wasserstein’s An American Daughter.

The BTF’s smaller Unicorn stage will feature four shows: Richard Corley’s restaging of Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion (May 25-June 24); Terrence McNally’s early comedy Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? (June 28-July 22); the world premiere of The Pilgrim Papers (July 28-August 26) in a production that will reunite playwright Stephen Temperley and director Vivian Matalon, who teamed up for Souvenir; and David Hare’s award-winning solo show Via Dolorosa (August 29-October 21), with Epstein in the starring role.

For more information, call 413-298-5576 or visit www.berkshiretheatre.org.