Women’s Hard Choices, Cutting Deep at Williamstown Festival
Charles IsherwoodAugust 18, 2016: A woman’s right to choose — how to live her life, or how to end it — provides an oblique theme linking the two plays that close the Williamstown Theater Festival season, which ends on Sunday. On the main stage is a revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s “An American Daughter,” about a nominee for surgeon general caught up in a political firestorm. And on the smaller Nikos Stage, the company is presenting the American premiere of “And No More Shall We Part,” a dark drama about illness and mortality by the Australian writer Tom Holloway.
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