The play that the New York Times critic Clive Barnes once declared as Tennessee William’s best returns to the stage this summer for the 71st summer season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directed by the Obie-award-winner Dustin Wills, Camino Royal tells the story of Kilroy (Nicholas Alexander Chavez), a guileless young American soldier who arrives at an unnamed port town with suggestions of Havana and New Orleans. There, he encounters a series of familiar lost souls, including the poet Byron, the adventurer Don Quixote, the aged courtesan Marguerite Gaultier (Pamela Anderson), and the gypsy Esmeralda (Whitney Peak). Fantastical and fragmented, the play is Williams at his most feverish and ambitious. “It is a play that seems to have been torn out of a human soul,” said Barnes. “A tale told by an idiot signifying a great deal of suffering and a great deal of gallantry.” —Paulina Prosnitz