Butler, Darragh, Serrailes, Wizan Set for WTF’s Crimes of the Heart

Kerry Butler, Patch Darragh, Jeanine Serrailes, and Liz Wisan will star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s reading of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart, to held at 3pm on Friday, August 18 at the Festival’s Main Stage theater. The reading will be directed by actress Kathleen Turner. Additional cast members will be announced shortly.

The play is set in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, and focuses on the three Magrath sisters, Lenny, Babe, and Meg, who are awaiting news of their grandfather who is living out in last hours in the hospital. The show’s 1982 Broadway production was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play.

Butler starred on Broadway in Hairspray and Little Shop of Horrors and will be seen in the Williamstown production of the musical The Opposite of Sex, which begins performaces on Wednesday. She will be seen next month in the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s production of Party Come Here alongside Terrence Mann, Hunter Foster, Fyvush Finkel, and Kaitlin Hopkins.

Darragh’s stage credits include The Ruby Sunrise and The Sugar Syndrome. Serrailes received a Drama Desk nomination for Hold Please and was seen last month at Williamstown in Lucy and the Conquest. Wisan appeared earlier this seaon at Williamstown in Anything Goes.

Tickets to the reading are $3 and can be ordered by calling 413-587-3400 or by visiting wtfestival.org.