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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…

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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…

What’s Up with the WAM/BRIDGE PIPELINE Partnership?

September 29, 2019

Kristen van Ginhoven, Producing Artistic Director, WAM Theatre and Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and Founding Director, BRIDGE, have written the following…

PARADISE playwright Laura Maria Censabella in conversation with director Talya Kingston

September 16, 2019

[button link=”https://www.wamtheatre.com/paradise/” newwindow=”yes”] Read More[/button] [button link=”https://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_293457d8-c082-11e6-bb7f-024e165d44b3&WidgetId=192512″ newwindow=”yes”] Buy Tickets[/button]   PARADISE playwright Laura Maria Censabella (above right) in conversation…

PIPELINE: Why this play? Why here? Why now?

September 12, 2019

by Talya Kingston & Kristen van Ginhoven Why this play? In some ways the answer to these questions is simple…

Casting Announced for Fall Mainstage Production of PIPELINE

September 9, 2019

WAM Partners with BRIDGE on Powerful Play [button link=”https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1013655″ newwindow=”yes”] Buy Tickets[/button] LENOX, MA (September 10, 2019) — Artistic Director…

Creating Ensemble Across Generations: a reflection of WAM Theatre’s intergenerational ensemble process

August 12, 2019

    by Talya Kingston, WAM Associate Artistic Director & Teaching Artist   Over three weeks in July, ten women…

At the Halfway Point, WAM’s 10th Anniversary Season is Making an Impact

August 11, 2019

We invite you to watch this special four minute video made especially by Iin Purwanti Cox and George Cox of OUTPOST…

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