About the Theatre
Charles G. Baldwin, Director of Marketing
cbaldwin@wheelock.edu
617-879-2147
Box Office
tickets@wheelock.edu
617-879-2300
John Bay, Director of Education
617-879-2252
Our Pioneering Mission
Wheelock Family Theatre (WFT) creates intergenerational and multicultural productions that provide a shared experience for the whole family. Among increasingly few institutions, we are committed to serving and supporting families of all kinds. Indeed, our productions celebrate the diverse range of families found in the world today and seek to unite them in the shared experience of live theatre. We are especially dedicated to those who are historically under-served: people of color, people with disabilities, and low-income families. We know that it is not only children who are "at risk" in our society- but entire families and communities.
We are devoted to the ideal of complete access and reject the notion that the arts should be available only to audiences of privilege. Our play selection, casting policy, affordable ticket prices, education programs, and access provisions for people with disabilities reflect an unwavering commitment to inclusive, community-based theatre. We believe theatre is a crucial element of human experience. It is both a means of self-revelation and a basis for empathy with others; it inspires both individualism and responsibility through the giving and the receiving of human experience.
Established:
1981 by Andrea Genser, Anthony Hancock, Susan Kosoff, and Jane Staab.
Location:
Conveniently located on the campus of Wheelock College at 200 The Riverway in Boston, near the museums, Longwood Medical Area, and Fenway Park.
Ticket office and theatre at 180 The Riverway, at Wheelock College, between Longwood and Brookline Avenues
Status:
Non-profit professional theatre affiliated with Actors' Equity Association.
Awards:
- Massachusetts Cultural Council's Commonwealth Award (2005)
- LEAD Award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation for Excellence in Accessibility Leadership (2005)
- Boston Parents' Paper Family Hall of Fame (2002-2005)
- StageSource Hero Award (2002)
- Bay State Council Arts and Business Excellence in the Arts Award (2002)
- Bay State Council of the Blind's Access Achievement Award (2001)
- Our Place Theatre Project's African American Theatre Festival Award (2001)
- Actors' Equity Association's Rosetta LeNoire Award (2000)
- President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities & National Endowment for the Arts Coming Up Taller Award for PAH! Deaf Youth Theatre (1998)
- Massachusetts Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Award for PAH! Deaf Youth Theatre (1996)
- New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart Memorial Award (1988)
WHEEL Award [pdf]
Season:
Three mainstage productions -- usually a family musical, a children's play appealing to all ages, and an adult drama or comedy. Staged readings of original works in the "Little Theatre".
Actors:
Wheelock Family Theatre is a member of Actors' Equity Association. Equity actors pictured on these web pages:
Shelley Bolman, John Davin, Dan Dowling Jr., Katherine Leigh Doherty, Ricardo Engermann, Lisa Korak, Mansur, Andrea Ross, Jane Staab, Harold Withee.
