Blythe Danner returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2012
The musical will be Far From Heaven on the Main Stage, and the new play The Blue Deep at the Nikos, with full details in our follow-up story here. (link)
I first came across Danner when she appeared in The Glass Menagerie at the long ago Theatre Company of Boston. It was the early 60′s and I think it was her professional debut.
While Danner participated in a WTF staged reading in 2011, she has not appeared in a full production for some time. Many Berkshire residents will remember the 1990s when Danner was a Williamstown fixture, frequently appearing with her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow, including the memorable productions of Picnic in 1991 and The Seagull in 1994.
The Tony Award-winning actress was honored by the Williamstown Theater Festival at a gala event titled Blythe’s Spirit in December 2005 in New York.
With yesterday’s news about the Williamstown Theatre Festival taking part in the national rollout of Dustin Lance Black’s new play “8″ about marriage equality, (link), with Tony nom Gavin Creel (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), the 2012 Williamstown Season is shaping up as a strong one. Stay tuned.
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About Larry Murray
Reporting on the arts in Berkshire On Stage is a passion. Having spent much of his working life in Boston and New York, he has always been an arts advocate, first as a writer, publicist, marketing director and then as an executive and administrator. His working life has been divided between for profit and non profit companies including smaller theatres, the Opera Company of Boston, the Boston Ballet, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Theatre Development Fund, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is a founder of, and was for a decade the executive director for Arts Boston, an umbrella organization that helps make Boston's 150 arts organizations more accessible to the public.
His reviews and opinions have been published in Berkshire on Stage, iBerkshires, Berkshire Fine Arts, the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe, among others.
