Smart, Hecht, Colin, Marshall-Green, Baker, et al. Cast in Williamstown Theater Festival Shows
Television favorites Jean Smart, Jessica Hecht, Margaret Colin, and Logan Marshall-Green will join such theater stars as Isabel Keating, Becky Ann Baker, and Ellen McLaughlin as performers in this year’s Williamstown Theater Festival, which will run July 6-August 28.
Smart, an Emmy winner for her work on Frasier, and Keating, the 2004 Drama Desk Award winner for her performance as Judy Garland in The Boy from Oz, will head the cast of Moisés Kaufman’s production of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy Lady Windermere’s Fan, which will play the Main Stage July 6-17. They will be joined by Adam Rothenberg (who starred in the Kennedy Center’s A Streetcar Named Desire last summer), Samantha Soule, Benjamin Walker, and Chandler Williams.
Hecht, who is currently playing opposite Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar; Baker, seen last season as Sara Jane Moore in Assassins; and McLaughlin, a playwright and actress best known for being the Angel in the Broadway production of Angels in America, will star alongside Reiko Aylesworth, Brienin Bryant, and Elizabeth Reaser in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. The production, to be directed by Jo Bonney (Fat Pig), will run July 20-31 on the Main Stage.
Colin, whose film, stage, and TV credits range from As The World Turns to the Broadway play Jackie, will play Frau Fischer in David Jones’ production of Tom Stoppard’s On The Razzle, August 3-14 on the Main Stage. Her co-stars will be John Lavelle (who succeeded Jason Biggs as Benjamin in The Graduate), Aasaf Mandvi (who played Ali Hakim in the recent Broadway revival of Oklahoma!), Sandra Shipley, Robert Stanton, and Benjamin Walker.
Marshall-Green, a cast member of the hit series The O.C and a Drama Desk winner for his work in The Distance From Here, will play Bo Decker in Will Frears’ production of William Inge’s classic drama Bus Stop, August 17-28 on the Main Stage. Film actress Elizabeth Banks will play Cherie, the part made famous on screen by Marilyn Monroe; Kristine Nielsen, now on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, will play the tough-talking waitress Grace. Bill Camp, Laura Heisler, and David Zayas round out of the cast.
Two of the three shows to be presented on the Nikos Stage this summer, Create Fate and The Sugar Syndrome, have not been cast yet. The third, Ona Faida Lampley’s Tough Titty (August 10-21), will star Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Peter Jay Fernandez, Christine Toy Johnson, Paul Kreppel, Antoniette LaVecchia, Brenda Pressley, and Shona Tucker under the direction of Charles Randolph-Wright.
