Get to Know Playwright Larissa FastHorse
Larissa FastHorse, of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is an award-winning writer, co-founder of Indigenous Direction, and a recent 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. WAM audiences will have a chance to ...
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WAM Theatre’s Digital Production of ROE Viewed by 1,800+
$4,500 Split Between Three Non-Profit Beneficiaries LENOX, MA (October 28, 2020) — Every year, WAM Theatre donates a portion of the box office proceeds from their Mainstage productions to organizations ...
ROE Dialogue Across Difference: Introducing Essential Partners
by Talya Kingston When Kristen and I decided to program ROE in our 2020 season, we knew we wanted to use the production as a springboard for dialogue about reproductive ...
WAM Theatre Announces Cast of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
Digital production goes online in November LENOX, MA (October 1, 2020) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM Theatre team today announced ...
Two Actors, Two Perspectives
Lisa Loomer’s play ROE is narrated in turn by Sarah Weddington (the attorney who argued the case of Roe v Wade) and Norma McCorvey (the plaintiff otherwise known as Roe). ...
The Journey to ROE – Part 3
Well, you have read about how it came about for WAM to produce ROE in our Part 1 blog. You’ve heard from our assistant dramaturge, Tatiana Godfrey, about how we ...
Meet Our ROE Apprentices
WAM Theatre is thrilled to be working alongside a team of talented emerging theatre artists in the creation of our upcoming online production of ROE. We asked them to share ...
WAM Theatre Announces Beneficiaries for ROE
Tickets are Now on Sale! Two Women. Multiple Truths. One Landmark Supreme Court Case. LENOX, MA (September 8, 2020) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya ...
WAM Theatre Announces Cast of ROE
Digital Production to Launch October 17 Two Women. Multiple Truths. One Landmark Supreme Court Case. LENOX, MA (September 3, 2020) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director ...
Introducing our ROE Scholar-In-Residence, Dr. Laura Briggs
Laura Briggs is a Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial ...