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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)…

Young indigenous woman with long brown hair streaked blonde. She is wearing a blue and white beaded choker necklace.

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…

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…

WAM Theatre Announces 2020 Season 

February 11, 2020

A Season of Ensembles, Community, and Civic Engagement    LENOX, MA (February 3, 2020) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van…

WAM Theatre Announces Appointment of Two New Board Members 

February 11, 2020

LENOX, MA (February 11, 2020) — WAM Theatre is pleased to announce the appointment of two new board members. Erica…

WAM Theatre Announces Auditions for 2020 Season

January 20, 2020

LENOX, MA (January 21, 2020) — WAM Theatre will hold Equity Principal Auditions for our 2020 Season on February 9…

Opening the Door on the PIPELINE Rehearsal Process

October 22, 2019

by Lia Russell-Self (WAM’s Associate Producing Director and the Assistant Director of PIPELINE) WAM’s Lia Russell-Self has been assisting director…

Young Arab woman wearing a black headscarf, white sweatshirt, and jeans on the left; in conversation with a taller white man wearing glasses, a navy v-neck sweater over a white collared shirt and grey slacks.

WAM Theatre Announces Casting for Fresh Takes Reading “PARADISE”

October 15, 2019

LENOX, MA (October 15, 2019) — Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM team…

The Impact of WAM: A Look Back at our Past Beneficiaries

October 7, 2019

From our founding in 2010, we have selected beneficiaries for each Mainstage production who work towards gender equity at home…

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