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A new production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes and the musical The Opposite of Sex are among the shows that will be seen at this summer’s Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning actor who is entering his second season as WTF’s artistic director, will helm the mainstage production of Anything Goes, July 5-16. Up next will be Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth, about a male hustler and an aging actress, directed by David Jones (July 19-30). In August, Will Frears will helm Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (August 2-13). The final mainstage offering will be Double Double, a two-character thriller written by Rees and Jersey Boys scribe Rick Elice, directed by Rees (August 16-27).
The Festival’s Nikos Stage will house Cusi Cram’s Lucy and the Conquest (July 12-23); A Nervous Smile, by the recently deceased John Belluso (July 26-August 6); and The Opposite of Sex (August 9-20), directed by co-author, Robert Jess Roth, who is currently helming Lestat. Adapted from Don Roos’s film about a scheming 16-year-old girl who moves in with her gay half-brother and is impregnated by his boyfriend, the show features a score by Douglas J. Cohen. It had its world premiere at San Francisco’s Magic Theater in the fall of 2004.
