Playwright Yvette “Jamuna” Sirker, BRIDGE CEO Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, and WAM Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven joined forces to produce Facing Our Truth. DeeAnn Veeder wrote a two-part essay ...
In 2016 WAM actively began exploring the intersection of gender and racial justice through our FACING OUR TRUTH project with local Berkshire social justice organization BRIDGE. That project began a ...
July 2020 Dear WAMily, Since sharing our solidarity statement, we have been taking time to process and recognize how, in our first decade, we have excluded, exploited, and misrepresented BIPOC ...
Dear WAMily, What started as a joyous day turned into a brutal day for American democracy. Wednesday, January 6, began with celebrating the decade-long work of grassroots organizers in Georgia ...
Dear Valued WAMily Member, THANK YOU for making it possible to support artists, produce innovative theatre, and positively impact women and girls during this pandemic. WAM is proud to do ...
This blog was written by Juliana von Haubrich. Juliana is WAM’s Production Manager and was also the production designer for ROE and THE THANKSGIVING PLAY in 2020. As WAM continues ...
WAM’s production of The Thanksgiving Play will feature original illustrations by Sicangu Lakota artist and Children’s book author Katari Wilson. She sent us this photograph of her wearing a ribbon ...
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 ...
$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 ...
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 ...