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Colin, Edelman, Graham, Hopkins, et al. Set for Williamstown Theatre Festival

Margaret Colin
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Margaret Colin
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Gerry Bamman, Margaret Colin, Gregg Edelman, Enid Graham, Kaitlin Hopkins, Matt Letscher, and Carrie Preston have been added to the star-studded line-up of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, which will run July 6-August 27.

Colin, a Drama Desk Award nominee this year for her work in Defiance, will play the Princess Kosmonopolis and Bamman will play Boss Finley in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth (July 19-30). Graham, whose Broadway credits include Honour and The Constant Wife, will play Lady Capulet alongside Emmy Rossum and Kristine Nielsen in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Will Frears, August 2-13.

Edelman, a four-time Tony Award nominee, and Hopkins, who has starred Off-Broadway in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Bare, and Bat Boy, will respectively play Bill and Lucia in the musical The Opposite of Sex (August 9-20). The show will be directed by its co-author, Robert Jess Roth; it will also star Kerry Butler and David Burtka.

Preston and Lestcher will star in the two-hander Double Double (August 16-27), co-written by WTF artistic director Roger Rees and Jersey Boys scribe Rick Elice. Preston most recently appeared on Broadway in Festen and Letscher starred in the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Rivals.

The festival’s mainstage season will begin with Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (July 5-16), to be directed by Rees and set to star Sharon Lawrence, Matt Cavenaugh, and Malcolm Gets. For further information, visit wtfestival.org.