Williamstown Offers Special Bus Trip from NYC on July 30

New Yorkers looking for a new way to get to the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts have a new one-day option on July 30: a special charter bus that will depart 42nd Street near Bryant Park at 9:30am, arriving back in the city early Sunday morning.

This special $130 package includes round-trip bus fare, tickets to Williamstown’s two shows, Caryl Churchiil’s Top Girls (at 4pm) and Lucy Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrome (at 8:30pm), along with a light meal between shows at the historic Williams Inn. In addition, Williamstown’s new artistic director, award-winning actor Roger Rees, will meet the passengers on Saturday morning before their departure.

Churchill’s Top Girls, a major success in New York in the 1980s, involves a dinner party where five women, superstars of the golden ages of history, literature and art, weigh on the personal sacrifices a woman makes to achieve success. The production, directed by Jo Bonney, stars Reiko Aylesworth, Becky Ann Baker, Brienin Bryant, Jessica Hecht, Ellen McLaughlin, and Elizabeth Reaser.

Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrone, at the Nikos Stage, is about a 17-year-old girl (played by film actress Gaby Hoffman) searching for love on the Internet. Patch Darragh, Tim Hopper, and Betsy Aidem co-star, under the direction of Maria Mileaf.

To order tickets for this one-day package, call 413-597-3400.