Jessica Hecht, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Sam Rockwell, Lili Taylor, et al. Set for Williamstown Theatre’s Nikos Stage Season

Wililamstown Theatre Festival has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011 season on its Nikos Stage.

The theater’s first offering will be a production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, to run June 22 – July 3. Jessica Hecht and Sam Rockwell will star as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, respectively, in this play about simmering tensions in and around a tiny New Orleans apartment, to be directed by David Cromer. In addition, Joe Grifasi will direct Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch (July 6-17), a modern-day farce about a young woman’s wedding day, which will feature Paige Howard and Mark Linn-Baker.

Paul Walsh’s translation of Henrik Ibsen’s look at a woman’s unhappy marriage, A Doll’s House, will star Oscar Isaac, Hamish Linklater, Matthew Maher, Lily Rabe, and Lili Taylor under the direction of Sam Gold and run July 20-31.

The Nikos Stage season will also include Trip Cullman’s staging of Bess Wohl’s portrait of a woman’s attempts to deal with her sister’s mental illness, Touch(ed) (August 3-14), as well as a look at difficult familial conversations, You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce (August 16-21), written by Anne Kauffman, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer R. Morris, Janie Paran, and Robbie Collier Sublett.

As previously announced, the Williamstown mainstage season will include such offerings as a revival of You Can’t Take It With You and Ten Cents a Dance, a new musical piece directed by John Doyle, among others.

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