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Brief

Design and build a website for Williamstown Theatre Festival that serves as a flagship experience for an all-new brand, a reinvented ticketing model, and year-round content for theatre-goers old and new.

Solution

We worked with the WTF team to design and build the website from the ground up, and support efforts to focus on the future of what the festival has to offer beyond its legacy of 70 years on stage.

To support its unique business model, we created a bespoke ticketing experience that features custom attendance schedules. We designed highly flexible content features fully integrated with Ghost to support WTF’s new editorial and email platform.

As part of a multi-phase rollout, we also designed and launched an initial microsite, celebrating the new brand identity by Pentagram and announcing key flagship programing months before the full website launch.

An actress in a blue dress stands in a stage performance
Interacting with flagship programs
A scrollthrough of the Edition page showing featured media and all programs
A mobile scrollthrough of the Plan Your Visit page
Interactive carousel of programs using the stage brand system
The ticket selection flow on mobile
Desktop view of a program detail page
View of the ticketing flow
A micro-interaction of hovering over a button to complete the borders around it
A black and white photo of Audra Mcdonald actress rehearsing a scene
An interactive gallery that adjusts image size to be larger on hover
Browse the festival's program via vibes: I want to Laugh, Cry, Relax, etc.
Images of the festival stack one by one on top of the Williamstown logo before all scrolling away
A scrollthrough of the About page
The WTF archive shows program history dating back 70 years.
The type scales, components, and grids that compose the WTF digital design system
A curtain drops to show "Intermission" when a user is idle for long enough.