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WAM Theatre Announces Beneficiary for KAMLOOPA

October 29, 2021

(Photo Caption: Women from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community on a recent group walk for the MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)…

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Meet KAMLOOPA Playwright Kim Senklip Harvey

September 30, 2021

Kim Senklip Harvey, who wrote Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story,  is a proud member of the Syilx, and Tsilhqot’in Nations…

Cover shot of the Firezine Study Guide for KAMLOOPA

KAMLOOPA Fire Zine! Study Guide

September 25, 2021
Cast and creative team of KAMLOOPA gathered around the table at their first rehearsal.

WAM’s Journey to Kamloopa

September 19, 2021

by Talya Kingston, WAM Associate Artistic Director When WAM’s Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven gave our first Indigenous land…

WAM Summer Story Circles

August 31, 2021

WAM holds space for Elders, Mother-Artists and Public School Teachers post-pandemic by Talya Kingston, Associate Artistic Director As summer of…

Accessibility is Key to Greater Community Engagement

August 13, 2021

Gail M. Burns has been part of WAM’s PR & Marketing Team since 2014. She has done remote work since…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Introducing our ROE Scholar-In-Residence, Dr. Laura Briggs

September 2, 2020

Laura Briggs is a Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in U.S….

Banner for WAM Production of ROE.

WAM Theatre Announces Digital Production of ROE by Lisa Loomer

August 24, 2020

Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven Two Women. Multiple Truths. One Landmark Supreme Court Case. October 17-20, 2020 LENOX, MA (August…

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Welcome to our 2019 Annual Report

August 21, 2020

Dear WAMily, Look at all YOU have made possible for WAM Theatre in the past year, and in our first…

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The Journey to ROE – Part 2

August 19, 2020

My name is Tatiana Godfrey. I am a theater maker currently pursuing an MFA in dramaturgy at the University of…

Banner for WAM Production of ROE.

WAM Theatre Announces Reimagined Fall 2020 Season

August 17, 2020

LENOX, MA (August 18, 2020) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM…

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WAM’s Next Steps of Solidarity

August 3, 2020

July 2020  Dear WAMily, Since sharing our solidarity statement, we have been taking time to process and recognize how, in our…

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