Christopher Fitzgerald in Forum and a Starry Our Town on Tap at Williamstown

Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2010 summer season will include a starry production of Our Town and Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald headlining A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. “For my final summer at the theater I love, I wanted to produce a series of the kinds of plays I love most: American classics and new American plays,” artistic director Nicholas Martin said in a statement. Martin will step down at the end of the summer, the 56th season at the popular theatrical venue on the campus of Williams College.

Fitzgerald (Finian's Rainbow, Young Frankenstein) will play the comic slave Pseudolus in Forum from June 30 to July 11 in a production directed by his wife, Jessica Stone. Williams alum Stephen Sondheim wrote the score for the 1962 farcical musical, with a book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove.

Martin will direct Our Town (running July 28-August 8) with a cast that will include Dylan Baker (God of Carnage), his wife Becky Ann Baker (Assassins), Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge) and Campbell Scott (The Spanish Prisoner). The season announcement did not specify which roles the stars will play in Thornton Wilder’s classic play.

Productions set for the smaller Nikos Stage include It’s Jewdy’s Show! (June 23-July 4), a new one-woman show from comedienne Judy Gold; After the Revolution, a new play by Amy Herzog; and Samuel J. and K., a new play by Mat Smart. Two additional Main Stage productions and one additional Nikos Stage production will be announced at a later date.