What the Constitution Means to Me
A WAM Theatre / Berkshire Theatre Group Co-Production Presented May 18-June 3, 2023 TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY LENOX, MA (December 1, 2022) – WAM Theatre is thrilled to announce that their 2023 Season will open with the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated play What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck (Grand Concourse, There Are No More Big Secrets, […]
Berkshire/Columbia County Arts Organizations Launch Regional Pay Equity Initiative
Equity starts with arts and culture workers being able to support themselves and their families. Passion is not a substitute for livable wages. But it is a common tale told by nonprofit employers, and employees too, as they try to make ends meet doing what they love. A collaboration of cultural nonprofits from Berkshire and […]
WAM’S Tour of Berkshire Libraries Uncovers Erased Legacies
Erased History Berkshire Athenaeum Panel. Photo Credit: Molly Merrihew by Kaia Jackson, WAM Theatre’s Director of Community Engagement Leading up to Cadillac Crew, and in solidarity with Banned Books Week, WAM Theatre hosted a series of Erased History conversations between BIPOC scholars, storytellers, community leaders, and audiences. The honored speakers included Heather Bruegl, Onawumi Jean […]
What Does Philanthropic Activism Look Like at WAM? The Act of Giving as a Collective
(PHOTO: Tanisha Arena, Executive Director of Arise for Social Justice, poses with WAM Producing Artistic Director, Kristen van Ginhoven, and Managing Director, Molly Merrihew, at a performance of CADILLAC CREW.) Each year since the inception of WAM Theatre in 2010, as part of our arts and activism mission, WAM has chosen an organization(s) to donate […]
Conversation Between “Cadillac Crew” Director taneisha duggan & Dramaturg Tash Hawkins
Tash Hawkins, the dramaturg for WAM Theatre’s Cadillac Crew interviews the director taneisha duggan about her connections to the play and inspirations as she heads into rehearsal.
Meet the CADILLAC CREW!
by Talya Kingston Cadillac Crew opens in the summer of 1963 in a Civil Rights Office in Richmond, Virginia. Playwright Tori Sampson describes each of the four activists we meet there as a “powerhouse” – but in very different ways. As the cast work with director taneisha duggan to embody the characters, I caught up […]
WAM Theater Introduces Free Child Care for Fall Production of CADILLAC CREW
LENOX, MA (October 4, 2022) – WAM Theatre, an activist theatre company centering gender equity and located in central Berkshire County, is proud to announce two child care options, at no added cost for parents/caregivers, for their upcoming mainstage production of Cadillac Crew. Cadillac Crew is a dynamic new play by Tori Sampson performed Thursdays-Sundays October 13-29 […]
Erased History: A Conversation with Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes & Onawumi Jean Moss
Social Psychologist Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes and Storyteller Onawumi Jean Moss celebrate the lives of Anthropologist Elizabeth Stubbs Davis, Civil Rights Activist Diane Nash and Dorothy Irene Heights, President of the National Council of Negro Women. This conversation, facilitated by Talya Kingston is presented in connection with WAM’s production of Cadillac Crew, and in solidarity with […]
WAM Theatre to Offer Online Workshops on the Black Theatre Aesthetic in Connection with their Production of CADILLAC CREW
LENOX, MA (September 28, 2022) – WAM Theatre is proud to offer a workshop on the Black Theatre Aesthetic in connection with our production of Cadillac Crew. These two 90-minute online sessions happening on October 9th and October 30th, will be led by Tatiana Godfrey, Co-Artistic Director of Impro Theater Company in Los Angeles and Literary Manager at […]
Spotlight Series 6: A Conversation with the “Cadillac Crew” Designers
Talya Kingston interviews Costume Designer Calypso Michelet, Scenic Designer Juliana von Haubrich and Hair and Make Up Designer Ericka N. Hanger who are all working on WAM Theatre’s Fall production of Cadillac Crew. They talk about their inspirations, the importance of research, and their love for the collaborative process.