Williamstown, Mass.

Celebrated stage and screen actor Matthew Broderick will be among the cast in a world-premiere play at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer, the company announced Wednesday.

Broderick, a popular presence since the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," will co-star in "The Closet," a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his hit 2006 play "The Little Dog Laughed." A comedy inspired by the French play "Le Placard" and 2001 movie of the same name, "The Closet" follows two lonely co-workers (Broderick and regular Williamstown, Broadway and TV star Jessica Hecht) whose lives are disrupted by a flamboyant stranger. "The Closet" runs June 26 to July 14 on the theater festival's Main Stage, at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College.

The 64th Williamstown season, in residency at the ’62 Center from June 26 through Aug. 19, includes four world premieres, among them a new musical. Other name performers in addition to Broderick and Hecht include Mary-Louise Parker (the movie "Proof" and the TV series "Weeds") and Steven Pasquale, who was in the Denis Leary-led firefighter series "Rescue Me" and was the male star of the musical adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County," originating in Williamstown in 2013 and moving to Broadway the next year.

Subscriptions are available now via wtfestival.org, with single tickets going on sale online, by phone and in person when the Williamstown box office opens June 1.

The Main Stage season:

"The Closet," June 26 to July 14, world-premiere comedy by Douglas Carter Beane.

"Lempicka," July 19 to Aug. 1, world-premiere musical about aristocrats fleeing the Russian revolution, with book and lyrics by Carson Kreitzer and music by Matt Gould.

"The Member of the Wedding," Aug. 5-19, revival of the play version of Carson McCullers' 1946 novel about a tomboy in a small Southern town.

The Nikos Stage season:

"The Sound Inside," June 27 to July 8, world-premiere drama by Adam Rapp about a brilliant professor and mysterious student.

"Artney Jackson," July 11-22, world-premiere comedy by James Anthony Tyler about a dedicated employee up for a promotion after 25 years.

"Seared," July 25 to Aug. 4, comedy by Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck about an iconoclastic chef resisting offers to expand and compromise his culinary vision.

"Dangerous House," Aug. 8-19, drama by Jen Silverman, author of "The Roommate" in Williamstown last summer, about a soccer player torn between a new life in London and her native South Africa.