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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 Announces Beneficiaries for Fall Mainstage Production of PIPELINE

July 29, 2019

LENOX, MA (July 30, 2019) – It was a picture perfect Berkshire evening on Wednesday, July 24, as WAM Theatre…

WAM Ensembles Take “Fractured Dreams” on Berkshire Tour

July 23, 2019

Photo by David Dashiell FRACTURED DREAMS to Debut at July 24 Gala Two Additional Public Performances Announced LENOX, MA (July…

Why We Have a Pride Month by Dori Parkman

July 5, 2019

Note from Kristen: During Pride Month, the WAM Team had in-depth conversations about the intersecting movements we are part of,…

Kristen’s Speech at the June 2019 TCG Artistic Directors’ Summit

June 19, 2019

Teresa Eyring, Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the Artistic Director (AD) Summit Planning Committee for the…

WAM Announces Line-Up for 10th Anniversary Gala July 24

June 4, 2019

WAM THEATRE 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA FEATURES INAUGURAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN TEEN & ELDER ENSEMBLES Midsummer Cocktail Gala Heads to New Location…

Auditions in the Berkshires & Cambridge MA for PIPELINE

May 29, 2019

You are invited to submit a request to audition for the WAM Theatre/NORA co-production of PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Dawn M….

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