Patti LuPone in "Don't Monkey Around with Broadway" at the Mahawie Performing Arts Center
July 20. Great Barrington, MassachusettsThe two-time Tony Award winner explores classic Broadway show tunes and talks about her lifelong love affair with Broadway—and her concern for where the Great White Way is headed at Mahaiwe.
John Cameron Mitchel in "The Origin of Love: Songs and Stories of Hedwig" at the Bard SummerScape Spiegeltent
July 27. Annandale-on-Hudson
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" creator John Cameron Mitchell visits the Spiegeltent in this intimate, uproarious personal journey through his experiences across two decades of living with Hedwig.
Jane Kazmarek in "Tell Me I'm Not Crazy" at the Williamstown Theater Festival
July 24-August 3. Williamstown, Massachusetts
Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Jane Kazmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in Sharon Rothstein's new, Williamstown Theater Festival-commissioned comedy about one American family—and one gun.
Uma Thurman in "Ghosts" at the Williamstown Theater Festival
July 31-August 18. Williamstown, Massachusetts
Big-screen icon Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) takes an exceedingly rare small-theater role in a production of Henrik Ibsen's passionate, immortal drama of motherhood, duty, desire, and scandal at Williamstown Theater Festival.
Ellen Barkin in "Before the Meeting" at the Williamstown Theater Festival
August 7-18. Williamstown, MassachusettsEmmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin (Diner, The Adventure of Buckaroo Banzai) appears in the world premiere of Adam Bock's ("A Small Fire") drama at WTF that explores the dynamic of one woman's journey on the road to recovery.