THEATRE
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge: A Director’s Story
Marcia Milgrom Dodge has been working as a theatre director for 30 years. This past year she made it to Broadway for the first time with the critically-lauded production of Ragtime.
The show did not make it, but Milgrom Dodge and the production receiv...more
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The Tonys and Hollywood
photo by Brian Bedder/Getty Images
Last night one of the things that was so interesting about the Tony Awards was that three of the four acting trophies were taken by current Hollywood actors. Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for A ...more
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The Lilly Awards — Kristin Chenoweth’s Statement
On Monday night a packed house gathered at Playwrights Horizons people in NYC to celebrate women working in theatre. A bunch of people including playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Marsha Norman who call themselves the “Committee for the Recognition of Out...more
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Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman
This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will ...more
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Are you a fan of American Idol? An automotive enthusiast waiting for the release of Ford's highly anticipated Fiesta? Well, this is just for you: Watch the Ford American Idol Music Video http://www.americanidol.com/ford/challenge/ of the week and answe...more
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Sad Broadway News: The Miracle Worker to Close
Just read the news that The Miracle Worker starring Abigail Breslin and Allison Pill is going to close next Sunday. It didn’t get the greatest reviews, but a friend who saw it said the audience was full of girls who adored it.
I think it was hard to ...more
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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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