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Awards Watch: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Enron by Lucy Prebble
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious international prize awarded to a female playwright (for writing in English) has named the ten finalists for the 2010 award. The award is basically the Pulitzer for women. It ...more
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Female Creative Partnerships
Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck
I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate wh...more
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Nora and Delia Ephron — Love, Loss and What I Wore
Nora and Delia Ephron
This week I spent some time in the world of the sisters Ephron — Nora and Delia. First, I saw their show – Love, Loss and What I Wore (which is breaking box office records at the West Side Theatre and it has been extended into...more
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Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging....more
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Best Plays of 2008-2009
When I went to graduate school way back in the dark ages I remember that we needed to read the best plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc before we started classes. I remember distinctly that there were very few plays written by women in those books and ...more
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Judith Ivey is busy
Judith Ivey as Ann Landers
Judith Ivey has had a long TV career, but lately I haven’t seen her in many things. The good news is that it looks like she’ll be quite visible here in NY as she follows the path of many female actors as they get older ...more
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Gender Bias in Theatre — Digging a Little Deeper
Last week I attended the release of an economic study done by Princeton undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands entitled Opening the Curtain of Playwright Gender: An Integrated Economic Analysis of Discrimination in American Theatre.
Usually an undergraduate the...more
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Women directors breaking through in theatre
Patricia Cohen seems to be on the gender and culture beat at the NY Times. She’s written two stories this week first the one on gender discrimination against women playwrights (full post on that coming) and now one on how women are having success as t...more
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A woman gets her own theatre
Great news. Rising star director Kate Whoriskey has been tapped by the Intiman Theatre in Seattle to take over as Artistic Director when current star director Barlett Sher leaves in 2010.
She will join a small club of female artistic directors in charg...more
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Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room
This week in London the Sphinx Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company, organized a conference Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room to look at gender and age discrimination in the arts. They seem to have gotten some high profile peo...more
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Interview with Allison Janney
I’ve been a big fan of Janney since I saw her onstage over a decade ago in A View from the Bridge and LOVED her as CJ Cregg on the West Wing. I recently saw her as Violet in 9 to 5, a show much maligned by critics but loved by audiences. She’s als...more
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Women onstage this season
Earlier this spring I wrote how excited I was to see so many amazing women appearing on the NY stage this season. New Yorkers are lucky to get all the indie films as well as the opportunity to see such great theatre if you can afford it.
I’ve gotten ...more
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From Movie to Musical
Two beloved films — Bridget Jones’ Diary and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown are being made into musicals.
Helen Fielding who write the book of Bridget Jones’ Diary has been working on the musical which held a recent reading in London att...more
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Theatre Awards
The arrival of marks the end of the theatre season here in NY so it’s awards time. The Tony Awards just deal with Broadway plays and there are other awards that include both Broadway and off-Broadway. I always find the mixed awards so fascinating be...more
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