LENOX, MA (May 23, 2023) – WAM Theatre announces today that Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven will step down from her position in December 2023. When she departs from this leadership role at WAM, she will have served in the organization for 14 years. As van Ginhoven leaves…
LENOX, MA (May 4, 2023) – WAM Theatre is proud to share several audience accessibility initiatives for its upcoming co-production of What the Constitution Means to Me with Berkshire Theatre Group. Forming the core of the audience accessibility initiatives is a sensory-friendly performance, caregiver reimbursements, masked performances options, and sliding scale ticketing initiative.…
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…
Presented live in the Berkshires October 13-29, 2022Presented Online October 27-29, 2022 LENOX, MA (September 15, 2022) — WAM Theatre is thrilled to present Cadillac Crew by Tori Sampson (If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka, Playwrights Horizons; This Land Was Made), directed by taneisha duggan (Jesus Hopped the…
Hosted by the Acclaimed Jayne Atkinson LENOX, MA (June 7, 2022) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Managing Director Molly Merrihew, and the WAM Theatre team are proud to present a special one-night-only benefit cabaret at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. hosted by Tony Award and Drama Desk Nominee…
LENOX, MA (March 22, 2022) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Managing Director Molly Merrihew, and the WAM Board are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to their Board of Directors. Donna Haghighat, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Kim Stauffer, and Nicole M. Young-Martin will be joining Board President…
LENOX, MA (February 15, 2022) — WAM Theatre is pleased to announce they have been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. WAM is recommended to receive $50,000 and may use this funding to…
LENOX, MA (March 13, 2018) — WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven today announces plans for the company’s 2018 season. The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its ninth year with a main stage co-production with Dorset Theatre Festival (Dorset, VT) starring Jayne Atkinson, a thought-provoking series of play readings,…
