Summer and Smoke.(Brief Article)

Michael Ritchie is a pretty contented guy. Cruising around the Berkshires with his 13-year-old son Morgan in tow, the lanky, good-natured 46-year-old producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Williamstown, Mass., explains why he assumed that moniker rather than the more traditional title of artistic director. "Well, I'm neither artistic nor a director," he laughs. "I never could direct a play, and though I think I kinda have an artistic sensibility, I'm really dependent on the directors and other people.

"I don't know," he shrugs, "there's ...

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