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Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity Symposium
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The Women’s Initiative presents,
“Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity,”
December 4, 2010 at The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street),
New York, NY
1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Julia Jordan...[Read on] |
A woman gets her own theatre
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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...[Read on] |
Master Photographer Helen Levitt, 95, Dies
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Saying good-bye to the photographer known for shooting New York street scenesIn Memory of Helen Levitt | Today 12:00 pm
Iconic photographer Helen Levitt died at the age of 95 on Sunday.
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Levitt, who was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was ren...[Read on] |
The London Film Festival Announces Its Lineup
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The fall festivals are finalizing their lineups and what has become clear to me as I track the films and the presence of women directors is that the festivals usually have a core list of films that go from festival to festival as they make their runs to...[Read on] |
Women Start New Distribution Company
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Distribution vets Emily Woodburne ( IFC and Zeitgeist), Bridget Stokes (IFC Films) and Vicky Wight (Artistic License) have joined forces and have created a new distribution company BEV Pictures. The films to be released by the company will focus on a sla...[Read on] |
Weekend Must-See: Sins Invalid in San Francisco
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Tonight, I am headed to the 2009 production of Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility, and I can't wait.
Chloe interviewed the Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Patty Berne, last week, and in another interview, Berne explai...[Read on] |
Reebok wants you!
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Reebok, once a broad force in the U.S. footwear market, is trying to start over by returning to its niche roots.
The brand, which has seen its sales and profile evaporate since being sold to Adidas for $3.8 billion in 2005, is hoping a series of major in...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
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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 ...[Read on] |
Anna Deveare Smith and Charlayne Woodward — Two One Woman Shows Playing in NY
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It’s not too often that we see one African-American woman leading a show on Broadway or Off-Broadway and this fall, we have two. Awesome. Need to see both of them.
Anna Deveare Smith who has lately been known as a TV and film actress (Rachel Gettin...[Read on] |
Art & Thought: Monet’s Water Lilies at the MoMA
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On a sea of gold, there is a bridge of fire. The sky is raining flame. Every part of the canvas is drowning in brushstrokes of gold and red, as if consumed in its own paint. Even though a whirlwind of colors engulfs the whole piece, I can still trace the ...[Read on] |
Two women ceatives speak out about Polanski situation
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Here are the women’s voices I promised. Please send me more:
This is director Sue Kramer’s comment that appeared on a NY Times article from Oct 1. It is reprinted here with her permission
I am a Hollywood screenwriter and director and must confe...[Read on] |
Back to School Dorm/Apartment: Cheap Ways to Shop
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Decorating is tough. Not only do you have to match your room basics to your style and color preferences, but you have to stay within your budget - which, for many college-bound chicks, is pretty small. Coupled with a seemingly never-ending shopping list, ...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Lindsey Calla: Creator of Saucy Glossie
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They are easy to find and walk the streets of New York City, London and L.A. every single day. They are young and brazen, bold and beautiful, and ready to tackle any challenge before them.
They are aspiring fashionistas -full of hopeful promise and new t...[Read on] |
Don't forget to set your car clocks forward!
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I was on my way to LAX airport last Fall when I glanced at the clock in my car and discovered in a panic that I was going to be much later than I had expected. It was an early morning flight, and I thought I had left enough time to stop and get gas on th...[Read on] |
The Art of the Mixed Tape
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Imagine you were handed an array of crayons, markers, paint, glitter - the works - and left in a plain, white room for as long as you needed to make your artistic vision, whatever it may be, come to life before your eyes. There are no rules, you don’...[Read on] |
Tips to pimp your ride - For the kids' safety!
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I had stopped on my way home from picking up the kids to get a pizza at my local Pizza Hut. There in the parking lot was an example of what is best labeled as a San Fernando Valley Art Car themed in red. The giant beast was covered in red things, from bi...[Read on] |
Gender Bias in Theatre — Digging a Little Deeper
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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...[Read on] |
Art & Thought: 5,000 Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
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Gentle strokes of ivory paint curl across the yellowed scroll, creating layers of soft plumage that ascend in a tiny crescendo. As the rooster bends to greet the morning sun, his tail feathers arch into a magnificent crescent of dazzling white. I could al...[Read on] |
Tips on recycling your used motor oil
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Do you change your car's motor oil? If so, you're considered a do-it-yourself (DIY) oil changer! According to the American Petroleum Institute, more than 50 percent of all motorists fall into this category. DIY oil changers generate approximately a quar...[Read on] |
Interview with Jodie Markell, Director of The Loss of the Teardrop Diamond
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Actress and Director Jodie Markell graciously took some time over the holiday weekend to answer some questions about her film debut The Loss of the Teardrop Diamond now playing in NY and LA. Films opens wider on January 8.
Women & Hollywood: Why did yo...[Read on] |
Playwright Marsha Norman talks about gender inequity in the theatre
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Marsha Norman is one of our best known female playwrights. Her play ‘night Mother won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and she has also written the book for the musicals The Secret Garden and The Color Purple.
She recently went out on a limb and talked abou...[Read on] |
The Post Oscar Debate on Kathyn Bigelow and Gender
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This past week there have been a lot of stories looking at Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win from a variety of perspectives. The fact that we are even having these conversations at all is in itself a huge and gigantic (and every other adjective I can throw ...[Read on] |
Cash For Clunkers - Is It Green or Green Backs?
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The term "Cash for Clunkers" might sound familiar to you - it's a hot topic in the news and across the automotive blogs right now. Details: Two bills are currently under consideration in the House and Senate, each of them offering their own set of pros a...[Read on] |
Sundance Interview: Adriana Maggs, Director/Writer of Grown Up Movie Star
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Adriana Maggs is one of a bunch of up-and-coming female directors with their work on display this year at Sundance. Her writing and directing debut Grown Up Movie Star is in competition this year in the World Cinema Narrative section.
Synopsis is below...[Read on] |
Interview with Colette Burson, co-creator of Hung
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Hung creators Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson
When I first read that HBO was going to air a show called Hung my first reaction was huh?. Why would I want to see a show about a guy’s dick? But since I had once spoken on the phone with the show’s ...[Read on] |
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