"marsha-norman" Articles & Blogs:
Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman
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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 ...[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 Lilly Awards — Kristin Chenoweth’s Statement
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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...[Read on] |
Coach Sharp to lead Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund
| Great news from the WBCA! We've landed a great leader to guide the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.ATLANTA -The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, in partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research, announces Marsha Sharp, avid women’s basketball pioneer, as th...[Read on] |
O.K. Sarah Palin Might Be Stupid, But Why Is That Bad?
| The neocons have a problem. The neocon wing of the Republican Party is the egghead wing, the foreign policy wing, the Jewish wing. So what to do about Sarah Palin, who is, relatively speaking, the antithesis of all of those things? An answer or, at any ra...[Read on] |
The trainwreck that has become Lindsay Lohan’s life
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I take no pleasure in the fact that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail for 90 days and then will complete another 90 days at an in-patient rehab.
But maybe, just maybe this will save her life.
Cause the track this young woman is on is killing her. She...[Read on] |
Female composer nominated for Ivor Novello Award
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Here’s a topic that I don’t focus enough on: women who write music for films. Suffice it to say there are not a lot of them. One of the most well known is Rachel Portman who was the first female to win an Academy Award for Emma in 1996. Another on...[Read on] |
Presentation from Panel on Abortion in Popular Culture
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Last week I moderated a panel on abortion and popular culture at the National Abortion Federation annual meeting. It was amazing and humbling to be in a place with people who put themselves on the line each and every day when they go to work because the...[Read on] |
Hollywood Women Speak Out
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Three Hollywood women -- Glenn Close, Nicole Kidman and Heather Graham -- got into the political action this week each on a different issue.
Nicole Kidman went to Capitol Hill to talk about violence against women. No matter what she has or hasn’t don...[Read on] |
Just Ride: International Female Ride Day celebrates fifth year on May 6th
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This year International Female Ride Day celebrates its fifth year of women riders getting on their motorcycles to JUST RIDE. With four years of history bringing awareness for women riders, the force created and expected for the fifth year of this glob...[Read on] |
Yoga: Enlighten Up!: The "Reality" of the Documentary
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It surprised me reading that Enlighten Up! filmmaker Kate Churchill felt that with her latest documentary, she had removed herself from the picture more than any other film she’s created. While I enjoyed many aspects, there was so much of her in it: her...[Read on] |
Interview with Mary Kay Place Emmy Nominee from Big Love
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Mary Kay Place is nominated for an Emmy for her work as Adaleen Grant on the HBO show Big Love. The ceremony for her category — guest actress in a drama series — takes place this weekend on August 21st.
Women & Hollywood: Congrats on the Emmy nomi...[Read on] |
Ten Memoirs By Unforgettable Women
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“Everyone has at least one good book in them.” The memoir, especially in recent years, has often proved this adage true. When all else fails, writers usually turn to their personal lives for inspiring material that will get the ink flowing.
The foll...[Read on] |
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