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Uma Thurman, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and More Set for Williamstown Theatre Festival

The 2019 summer season will include five world premieres, new productions of ”A Raisin in the Sun” and ”Ghosts”, and more.

Uma Thurman will star in a new production of Ghosts as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2019 summer season.
Uma Thurman will star in a new production of Ghosts as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2019 summer season.
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The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced its 2019 summer season.

The Main Stage season will include a new 60th-anniversary production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (June 25-July 13) directed by Robert O'Hara and starring Francois Battiste and S. Epatha Merkerson; the world premiere of Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons (July 17-28), directed by Leigh Silverman and starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Mary Steenburgen; and the premiere of Paul Walsh's new translation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (July 31-August 18), directed by Carey Perloff and starring Uma Thurman.

The Nikos Stage season will include four world premieres: Jonathan Payne's A Human Being, of a Sort (June 26-July 7), directed by Whitney White; Sylvia Khoury's Selling Kabul (July 10-21), directed by Tyne Rafaeli and starring Omar Metwally, Marjan Neshat, and Babak Tafti; Sharyn Rothstein's Tell Me I'm Not Crazy (July 24-August 3), directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and starring Mark Feuerstein, Jane Kaczmarek, and Nadine Malouf; and Adam Bock's Before the Meeting (August 7-18), directed by Trip Cullman and starring Jason Butler Harner.

For more information on the 2019 season, click here.