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Berkshire/Columbia Counties Pay Equity Project: Data Release, Analysis & Recommendations

June 15, 2023

What we learned. What you can do. What we can do together. Equity includes arts and culture workers being able…

A Message from Kristen

May 22, 2023

Dear WAMily, Today I share publicly that 2023 will be my last year as WAM’s Producing Artistic Director. Please know…

A Conversation with Kate Baldwin and Kristen van Ginhoven

May 9, 2023

Director Kristen van Ginhoven and actor Kate Baldwin took at break from rehearsals to talk about their work on What…

Spotlight on the What The Constitution Means to Me recipient, the Elizabeth Freeman Center

April 30, 2023

As we say on our t-shirt: “Whoever we are, however we look, wherever we go, we all deserve safety and…

A Conversation with Heidi Schreck

April 20, 2023

As we head into rehearsals for What The Constitution Means to Me, WAM’s Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston sat down…

Kristen Lobbies Congress

April 6, 2023

WAM’s Producing Artistic Director joins the Professional Non-Profit Theatre Coalition in D.C. On March 8th, International Women’s Day 2023, Kristen…

WAM Theatre Announces Casting for Spring Co-Product of What the Constitution Means to Me.

March 8, 2023

LENOX, MA (March 2, 2023)— WAM Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Group are proud to announce casting for their Spring Main…

What the Constitution Means to Me

December 2, 2022

A WAM Theatre / Berkshire Theatre Group Co-Production Presented May 18-June 3, 2023 TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY  LENOX, MA (December…

Berkshire/Columbia County Arts Organizations Launch Regional Pay Equity Initiative 

November 14, 2022

Equity starts with arts and culture workers being able to support themselves and their families. Passion is not a substitute…

WAM’S Tour of Berkshire Libraries Uncovers Erased Legacies

November 8, 2022

Erased History Berkshire Athenaeum Panel. Photo Credit: Molly Merrihew by Kaia Jackson, WAM Theatre’s Director of Community Engagement Leading up…

What Does Philanthropic Activism Look Like at WAM?  The Act of Giving as a Collective

October 29, 2022

(PHOTO: Tanisha Arena, Executive Director of Arise for Social Justice, poses with WAM Producing Artistic Director, Kristen van Ginhoven, and…

Conversation Between “Cadillac Crew” Director taneisha duggan & Dramaturg Tash Hawkins

October 28, 2022

Tash Hawkins, the dramaturg for WAM Theatre’s Cadillac Crew interviews the director taneisha duggan about her connections to the play…

WAM Theatre Receives Community Investment Grant from Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts

August 2, 2021

LENOX, MA (August 2, 2021) — WAM Theatre is proud to be one of the 20 nonprofit organizations awarded a…

WAM Teaching Artists and students at the Flying Cloud Institute summer camp indoors at Mt. Everett Regional School.

WAM at Southern Berkshire Regional School District

July 19, 2021

This Summer, thanks to the generous support of Berkshire United Way and in collaboration with our friends from Flying Cloud…

The staircase leading up to the pillared doors of the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada, strewn with teddy bears, books, images, flowers, and 215 pairs of children’s shoes as a community memorial to the 215 buried children discovered at Kamloops Residential School.

Statement on the Tragedy in Kamloops

June 14, 2021

“It’s collective trauma and collective grief that we’re feeling. And it’s almost like your spirit feels that. All the Indigenous…

Dark blue banner with photograph of a young Mohican woman with long, loose brown hair. She is wearing blue and raising her arms as if flying. Lettering describes the performance.

Conversation with Madeline Sayet & Mei Ann Teo

June 9, 2021

by Tatiana Godfrey As WAM’s new company dramaturg, I recently had the opportunity to briefly chat with Madeline Sayet, the…

Dark blue banner with photograph of a young Mohican woman with long, loose brown hair. She is wearing blue and raising her arms as if flying.

WAM Proudly Presents Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s Production of “Where We Belong”

May 6, 2021

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY MADELINE SAYET  A Special Benefit for WAM Theatre Streaming Digitally June 24-27, 2021 LENOX, MA (May…

Young Black woman with curly brown hair pulled up on top of her head. She is wearing a black top with bright yellow lemons with green leaves printed on it, and a black sweater.

An Interview with THE LIGHT Playwright Loy A. Webb

April 16, 2021

In the week leading up to WAM Theatre’s reading of THE LIGHT, playwright Loy A. Webb took time to answer…

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