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Meet the CADILLAC CREW!

October 7, 2022

by Talya Kingston Cadillac Crew opens in the summer of 1963 in a Civil Rights Office in Richmond, Virginia. Playwright…

WAM Theater Introduces Free Child Care for Fall Production of CADILLAC CREW

October 3, 2022

LENOX, MA (October 4, 2022) – WAM Theatre, an activist theatre company centering gender equity and located in central Berkshire…

Erased History: A Conversation with Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes & Onawumi Jean Moss

October 3, 2022

Social Psychologist Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes and Storyteller Onawumi Jean Moss celebrate the lives of Anthropologist Elizabeth Stubbs Davis, Civil Rights…

A young Black woman with a broad smile and close cropped hair, wearing a bright pink collared shirt.

WAM Theatre to Offer Online Workshops on the Black Theatre Aesthetic in Connection with their Production of CADILLAC CREW  

September 28, 2022

LENOX, MA (September 28, 2022) – WAM Theatre is proud to offer a workshop on the Black Theatre Aesthetic in…

Spotlight Series 6: A Conversation with the “Cadillac Crew” Designers

September 21, 2022

Talya Kingston interviews Costume Designer Calypso Michelet, Scenic Designer Juliana von Haubrich and Hair and Make Up Designer Ericka N….

Tickets on Sale Now for WAM Theatre’s CADILLAC CREW

September 14, 2022

Presented live in the Berkshires October 13-29, 2022Presented Online October 27-29, 2022 LENOX, MA (September 15, 2022) — WAM Theatre…

WAM Theatre Commemorates Banned Books Week with “Erased Histories: A FREE Conversation Series” Open to the Public

September 8, 2022

WAM Theatre is delighted to announce a series of lively conversations with scholars, artists, and community members who will tell…

Spotlight Series 5: Conversation with actors Candace Birk and Eileen Schuyler

July 26, 2022

A conversation between WAM producing artistic director Kristen van Ginhoven and actors Candace Birk and Eileen Schuyler, who are both…

WAM’s  2022 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series concludes with ESCAPED ALONE at The Mount

July 25, 2022

Performance on Sunday August 7 at 2pm LENOX, MA (July 25, 2022) — WAM Theatre concludes their 2022 Fresh Takes…

Escaped Alone: A Conversation with Director Kristen van Ginhoven & Actor Candace Barrett-Birk

July 18, 2022

Caryl Churchill is one of our most prolific and celebrated contemporary playwrights.  She is the author of over 30 plays…

Spotlight Series with Casting Director Victor Vazquez

June 28, 2022

A conversation between performer/dramaturg Tatiana Godfrey and casting director Victor Vazquez (X Casting) about some of the problems that we…

Roe v. Wade Overturned Today

June 24, 2022

WAM Theatre is sickened by the immensity of this historic ruling, and all that it represents. Today, in addition to…

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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