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WAM Theatre Offers Staged Readings by Female Playwrights

(LENOX, Mass.) – WAM Theatre’s second season of Fresh Takes Staged Readings kicks off with a reading of “Silence” by Moira Buffini, directed by Tod Randolph, at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café in West Stockbridge on Sunday, April 19, 2015. All of this year’s plays were penned by living, female playwrights and include the…

‘In Darfur’ to Get New England Premiere by WAM at Shakespeare & Co.

(LENOX, Mass.) – WAM Theatre will present the New England premiere of “In Darfur” by Winter Miller at Shakespeare & Company in the Berry Family Studio of the Elayne P. Bernstein Center from Thursday, October 30, through Sunday, November 16, 2014. Each performance of the play is followed by a conversation with a noted expert…

Madame Tussaud Play Gets WAM Reading

(WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – “Waxworks,” a new play by Trina Davies about Madame Tussaud, will have one of its first public readings as part of WAM Theatre’s Fresh Takes Play Reading Series at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café on Sunday, September 21 at 3pm. “Waxworks” tells the story of Madame Tussaud, an extraordinary artist…

WAM Theatre Makes $2,400 Donation to Nonprofit Combating Sex Trafficking

WAM Theatre artistic director Kristen van Ginhoven

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – In keeping with WAM Theatre’s double philanthropic mission, the acclaimed October world premiere production of The Old Mezzo by Susan Dworkin led to a $2,400 donation to the production’s beneficiary, Shout Out Loud Productions, a local nonprofit taking action to address sexual trafficking. The check presentation was made following the final performance…

Susan Dworkin’s ‘The Old Mezzo’ Premieres at Berkshire Museum by WAM

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Old Mezzo by Berkshire-based playwright Susan Dworkin enjoys its world premiere beginning this week at Berkshire Museum in a production by WAM Theatre that runs from Friday, October 12, 2012, through Sunday, October 28, 2012, and which features professional actors from Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, the…

WAM Theatre 2012 Season to Include 24hr Project, Devised Theater Work During WordxWord Festival, and World Premiere of New Susan Dworkin Play

WAM Theatre cofounders Kristen van Ginhoven and Leigh Strembeck

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – WAM Theatre’s third season will include the second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project showcasing five new works by women playwrights with everything written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours; a new piece of devised theatre entitled Women & Technology created and performed during the WordXWord Festival in August; and the world premiere…