Gets, Kind, Franz, Rees and More Join Williamstown Summer Season

Richard Kind, Malcolm Gets, Elizabeth Franz, Jessica Hecht, Daniel Gerroll, Sarah Paulson, Jay O. Sanders, Maryann Plunkett, Kate Reinders, Mamie Gummer, Lily Rabe, Alicia Witt and artistic director Roger Rees have been cast in forthcoming productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.

Kind will play Walter Burns in The Front Page on the Main Stage July 4-15, directed by Ron Daniels, an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Kind's Broadway credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. At Williamstown, he has appeared in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Big Knife.

Gets will play Orlando in the world premiere of the musical Party Come Here on the Nikos Stage July 25-August 5. He received a Tony Award nomination for Amour and starred in The Moliere Comedies and the off-Broadway productions of A New Brain and Merrily We Roll Along. At Williamstown, he appeared in Anything Goes. Also joining the previously announced Hunter Foster and Kaitlin Hopkins in the production will be Kate Reinders Wicked, Gypsy, Into the Woods.

Franz will play Mary Ellis in The Autumn Garden on the Main Stage August 15-26. Currently appearing off-Broadway in Howard Katz, she won a Tony for Death of a Salesman and was nominated for Tonys for Brighton Beach Memoirs and Morning's at Seven. She appeared in Madwoman of Chaillot. Also joining the previously announced Allison Janney in the play are Mamie Gummer Mr. Marmalade, The Water's Edge as Sophie Tuckerman, Maryann Plunkett Me and My Girl, Sunday in the Park With George as Rose Griggs and Jay O. Sanders Stuff Happens, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as General Benjamin Griggs.

Hecht will play Ruth in Blithe Spirit on the Main Stage July 18-29. Her Broadway credits include Julius Caesar, After the Fall and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Williamstown credits include Top Girls, Light Up the Sky and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.

Gerroll will play James in the world premiere of Dissonance at the Nikos Stage June 27-July 8. His Broadway credits include Enchanted April, High Society, The Homecoming and Plenty. At Williamstown, he appeared in The Late Middle Class and Hard Times. Joining him in the cast will be Alicia Witt Piano Forte, The Shape of Things.

Paulson will play Meg Magrath in Crimes of the Heart at the Nikos Stage August 8-19. Her Broadway credits include The Glass Menagerie and The Sisters Rosensweig. She will be joined by Lily Rabe as Babe Motrello. Rabe has appeared on Broadway in Heartbreak House and Steel Magnolias.

Rees will play Sir Isaac Newton in The Physicists at Center Stage August 7-18. He won a Tony for Nicholas Nickleby and has amassed numerous credits in New York and Williamstown. Most recently, he played a three-episode arc on TV's Grey's Anatomy.

For a full description of every show in Williamstown's summer schedule, see Broadway.com's season preview news story.