WAM Theatre sees the year ahead as time of transformation, as Genée Coreno becomes their new artistic director — and their 2024 season opens with nationally acclaimed singer songwriter Tracy Grammar in Be Here Now.
Read articleA zing of life and laughter on our stages — #berkshireweekend
Berkshire stages are stirring with life, as WAM welcomes a new artistic director and Williamstown Theatre announces two new leadership roles ... and asks searching questions.
Read articleLet’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend
The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
Read article‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ explores the future
‘The constitution … is a living, warm-blooded, steamy document,’ Heici Schreck argues in her Tony-nominated play — and she asks with a deeper understanding, what world could we imagine if that could really be true — for her, and for everyone.
Read articleStudios open and kilns and conversations – #berkshiresweekend
In the next week we can make paper out of old jeans, or see a potter lift the top off a raku kiln while the bowls inside are glowing like molten glass … Artsweek Berkshires is coming back.
Read articleBright Half Life weaves a love story through time
We’re on a ferris wheel in 1986, and it’s dusk, and two women are sitting close together. They’re holding hands and talking over the bolts rattling in the wind … and they’re in a long and deep relationship.
Read articleSisters find new Indigenous dimensions in ‘Kamloopa’
In Kim Senklip Harvey’s awardwinning comedy, two sisters and a close friend take a journey into power and find strength in their Native identities in their own ways.
Read articleTheatre and art leaders commit to change
As the theatre season is reopening in the Berkshires, more than 30 arts and theatre organizations gathered with MCLA (in a virtual event) to talk with two nationally renowned theatre makers.
Read articleBerkshire arts evolve in the wake of national protest
In wake of the murder of George Floyd and increased national focus on the Black Lives Matter movement, Berkshire arts organizations are re-imagining how to tell stories in the most diverse and equitable way possible.
Read articleA mother fights for her son in a tough contemporary world in ‘Pipeline’ at WAM Theatre
Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Pipeline, is one of the top 10 most produced plays in the country this year and an Obie winner in 2018, and WAM Theatre and Multicultural Bridge are partnering to bring it to the Berkshires.
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