Willamstown sets 2012 season

A gangster-designed revival of "The value of Being Serious" helmed by David Hyde Pierce, a worldwide preem by scribe Katori Hall together with a brand new Richard Nelson translation of "Monthly within the u . s . statesInch are among shows rounding the 2012 slate within the Williamstown Theater Festival.Pierce's undertake the familiar Oscar Wilde comedy imagines the surface of the-crust protags as two mafia hoods who be seduced by a couple of molls. Show, which runs June 26-This summer time 14, might be the most recent pointing credit for thesp Pierce, whose also helmed a regional staging of latest tuner, "It Shoulda Been You."Hall's "Whaddabloodclot!!!" (August. 8-19), is presented by WTF in colaboration with Signature Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe now preemed Hall's "Hurt Village." Comedy follows a wealthy NYer who, carrying out a stroke, is stricken getting an uncommon condition that creates her to talk to a Jamaican accent.Also round the Williamstown sked can be a Nelson-directed staging of Ivan Turgenev's 1800s Russian comedy, "Monthly within the u . s . statesInch (August. 1-19), converted by Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Plus there's a revival of Neil Simon's "Last in the Sought After Fanatics," helmed by Jessica Stone.Shows joins a variety including the preem of "Definately Not Paradise," a musical version in the 2002 Todd Haynes pic that will topline Kelli O'Hara, additionally to a different follow Lucy Boyle, "Nowhere Deep," directed by Bob Balaban and starring Blythe Danner.The fest's annual free theater offering can be a stage version of the Virtual Detective story "The Valley of Fear," modified by Steve Lawson. The 2012 WTF runs June 26-August. 19, with another show still being introduced. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com