WAM Theatre Announces 2026 Season

Bold Stories. Daring Women. Unapologetic Imagination.  LENOX, MA (February 25, 2026)  â€” Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno, Managing Director Molly Merrihew, and the WAM Theatre Team announced their 2026 Season today. WAM Theatre’s 17th Anniversary Season continues its steadfast commitment to amplifying women’s voices and producing theatre that invites audiences to imagine beyond limitation. Through intimate storytelling,…

WAM Presents Reading of “Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous”

Lenox— On Sunday, December 14 at 2 p.m., WAM Theatre presents a reading of Pearl Cleage’s “Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous” at Ventfort Hall.  “Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous” weaves a tale of self-discovery and the enduring power of the performing arts. With humor, artistic-homage, and grace, it packs a punch as it…

WAM Theatre Announces 2025 Season Update

World Premiere Production Slated for Fall & Pearl Cleage Play Moved to December Fresh Takes LENOX, MA (August 28, 2025)  —  WAM Theatre‘s Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno and Managing Director Molly Merrihew announce updates to the company’s 2025 Performance Season. The previously scheduled fall mainstage production, Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, will now…

“Mr. Dickens is Coming!” to Ventfort Hall September 21

The great-great-grandson of the literary legend Charles Dickens, British actor Gerald Charles Dickens returns to Ventfort Hall this time to present his one-man theatrical performance of his ancestor’s classic works on Sunday, September 21 at 2 pm. An elegant tea will follow the this performance. After having visited Ventfort Hall…

WAM Theatre Announces Casting for Fresh Takes Play Reading of “Alien Girls”

LENOX, MA (June 24, 2025) — WAM Theatre is thrilled to announce casting for the July installment of its 2025 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series: Alien Girls, written by Drama League Nominated and 2024 O’Neill Finalist Amy Berryman (Walden, The New Galileos, God’s Flesh), directed by WAM’s Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno (Fragments of Outside, Madge Love).…

WAM Theatre Announces New Venue for Remaining 2025 Fresh Takes Readings

WAM Theatre is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Ventfort Hall for the remaining readings in our 2025 Fresh Takes Reading Series: Rooted by Deborah Zoe Laufer and Alien Girls by Amy Berryman. “It feels deeply meaningful to uplift women’s stories together with WAM Theatre, a sister nonprofit that is not only producing world-class theatre, but also creating equitable,…

WAM Theatre Announces Casting for Fresh Takes Reading of “Rooted”

LENOX, MA (May 14, 2025) — WAM Theatre is thrilled to announce casting for the June reading in their 2025 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series: Rooted written by Deborah Zoe Laufer (Be Here Now, The Last Yiddish Speaker), directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo (Far, Far Better Things, Sueño and Marisol), and features Jayne Atkinson, Jennie Jadow, and Hero Marguerite. The production…

by Mark G. Auerbach Rob Ruggiero, Artistic Director of TheaterWorks Hartford, is planning the theatre’s 40th anniversary season. Meanwhile, he stages Dear Evan Hansen at St. Louis Muny, July 28-August 3, and the 50oth anniversary production of A Chorus Line at Goodspeed which runs September 5-October 28.. For tickets to the latter: www.goodspeed.org.  Ben Scranton,…