Our 20th Season
Last Call
The Final Fall Festival
September 25-28, 2025
Locations All Over Provincetown
The theme of this year's Festival will be “Last Call,” with live performances of plays by Williams that celebrate endings. It’s not the last of the Festival, but it is the last of the four day celebrations. The Festival will transform after 2025 and the mission of the Festival will continue in new ways, championing Tennessee Williams in other forms in Provincetown -- and around the world. As Festival Curator David Kaplan puts it, “We've enjoyed our run: productions of over a hundred different plays by Williams from Adam and Eve on a Ferry (2008) to Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? (2018). From A to W, if not quite A to Z.”
The 20th season will feature a daring new production of a classic play by Williams, a fresh take on a rarely produced late play by Williams, a new adaptation of a text by Williams, and several short plays by Williams’ peer, Samuel Beckett. A highlight of the twentieth season will be a production of Williams’ classic Sweet Bird of Youth, in which the glamorous Alexandra DeLago proclaims “There’s no more valuable knowledge than knowing the right time to go.” A full list of 2025 performances will be shared in the coming weeks.
Plan to join us in Provincetown this Fall for our Last Call!
Our Annual Gala is June 7 with Special Guest, Bryan Batt!
Our annual Spring Performance Gala will be Saturday, June 7 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Harbor Hotel in Provincetown. Once again, we’ll feature Live Entertainment, Williams inspired cocktails and mocktails, creative afternoon hors d’oeuvres, a Silent Auction featuring art work and experiences and the announcement of our full production of shows for our 20th and Final Season coming in September.
And new this year, we'll finish the Gala with a our own Last Dance Disco Party with a rockin’ DJ! This is your chance to sparkle by dressing up in your favorite disco outfit!
“Think Donna Summer’s “Last Dance!” It’s a chance to celebrate.” -- Festival Curator, David Kaplan
Saturday, June 7
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Harbor Hotel
698 Commercial Street - Provincetown, MA
Tickets for the Gala are $200.
VIP Tickets (including a Meet & Greet with Bryan Batt prior to the Gala) are $250.
Bryan Batt (Salvatore Romano in the AMC series Mad Men) is getting ready to bring Dear Mr. Williams, his acclaimed one-person show to New York. What began as a letter he wrote to Tennessee Williams has grown into a coming out story that is equally parts hilarious, ironic, tragic, contemplative and rousing. At the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Gala, along with performing highlights from Dear Mr. Williams, Bryan will share the moving origins of the show, and what’s planned for its future.
“There's an earnest tenderness in Batt's confession of how his introduction to Tennessee Williams' work at the age of 13 opened his soul to a world of shadows and bright lights.”
-- Rob Levy, BroadwayWorld.com
The Final Gala is hosted by:
Marcy Feller & Gabby Hanna
Barbara Lemperly Grant & Frederic Grant
Roxanne Kupfer
Alix Ritchie & Marty Davis
Micki-Beth Stiller
Jim & Cathy Stone
Last Call imagery photo credit Ride Hamilton. Regina Bartkoff and Brandon Lim from "In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel" directed by Everett Quinton (TWFest 2016).