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    As in her first season, artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival Jenny Gersten has announced there will be a total of seven productions, three on the main stage and four on the Nikos stage at this year’s festival. The performing season will run from June 26 to August 18th.

For their Summer 2013 season, the highly anticipated World Premiere of Bridges of Madison County, a new musical by Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman; a revival of Animal Crackers; and a Nicholas Martin-directed production of George Bernard Shaw’s classic Pygmalion.

Based on the popular 2002 film, Far From Heaven is now a musical that is having a preview production on the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Main Stage. The show stars 4-time Tony Nominee, Kelli O’Hara. She was nominated for her work in The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, and most recently for Nice Work I f You Can Get It, which she will return to following her work in Williamstown.

Williamstown Theatre Festival's second Nikos Stage production of the season is a Jessica Stone directed mounting of Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. We welcome Jessica Stone and actors Leslie Bibb and Brooks Ashmanskas to The Roundtable.

Susie Essman is one of the stars in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers, running on the Nikos Stage July 11 – 22 - and on July 23rd she'll present a night of stand-up on the Mainstage.

We welcome Lewis Black back to the show to talk about his upcoming WTF Benefit - "The Importance of Being Lewis" - One Slight Hitch, and, well, the state of the world.