"tony-award" Articles & Blogs:
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] |
Lynn Redgrave Passes Away at Age 67
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Lynn Redgrave, 67, passed away in her Connecticut home on Sunday, a spokesperson for her family announced today. Redgrave received Oscar nominations for her performances in “Georgy Girl” and “Gods and Monsters.” She also received a...[Read on] |
Marcia Milgrom Dodge: A Director’s Story
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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...[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] |
Mo'Nique's Spreads The Love With New Comedy Tour
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Mo'Nique doesn't stop! After winning a number of awards (including a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and the Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Film Critics Award) being nominated for an Academy Award, and hosting a successful...[Read on] |
Are Team Jennifer and Team Angelina the New Stuarts and Tudors?
| The feuding queens of Tony-nominated Mary Stuart call to mind a pair of Hollywood divas.
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Patti Smith wins National Book Award!
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Congratulations to my favorite artist of all time, Patti Smith, who won the National Book award last night for her memoir, Just Kids. If you have not read this book, go get it! It's thoroughly entertaining and very inspiring. Here's a quote from the Times...[Read on] |
Astor Trial Wrap-up: How Anthony Marshall Sentenced Himself to Jail
| Brooke Astor and Anthony Marshall at her estate Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, New York, circa December 2001. Photograph by Alec Marshall. Charlene Marshall tends to dominate any room that she is in. As her 85-year-old husband, Anthony Marshall—ga...[Read on] |
The Special Relationship doesn’t do justice to Hillary Clinton
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Here’s a bit about something that’s been bothering me for a couple of days since I saw the film on HBO.
I remember being excited when they announced the cast for The Special Relationship, the third in the trilogy of Michael Sheen taking on Tony Bla...[Read on] |
Couric Wins Cronkite Award for Palin Interview
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Katie Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for her infamous Sarah Palin interviewKatie Couric | Today 5:45 pm
Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange — the one ...[Read on] |
Marta wins fifth consecutive FIFA women’s world player of the year
| The amazing Marta won her fifth consecutive FIFA player of the year award, ahead of Germany’s Fatmire Bajramaj and Birgit Prinz.
The FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala, which took place in Zurich on Monday, raised the curtain on the new decade in style. Attractin...[Read on] |
Carrie Underwood Rules Country Music Awards
| For the first time in almost a decade, a woman wins the top honor in the boys club of the ACMsCarrie Underwood | Today 10:55 amCarrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards, the first woman to win the t...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
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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....[Read on] |
Women onstage this season
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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 ...[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] |
Awards Watch: DGA Doc Nominees
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Agnes Varda
Mai Iskander
A couple of women, one veteran, Agnes Varda and one newcomer, Mai Iskander just got their first nominations for a DGA Award.
Iskander was nominated for Garbage Dreams about boys born into the “trash world” in Egypt whic...[Read on] |
Nominate your female Sports Hero
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March is Women’s History Month and there is no better way to honor female
athletes than by nominating them for one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2010 award programs.
Current open nominations include:
Sportswoman of the Year Award. Every year,...[Read on] |
Marta named World Player of year
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Brazil’s Marta captured soccer’s World Player of the Year award for the fourth year in a row. The 23-year-old playmaker beat teammate Cristiane, Kelly Smith of England, and Germans Birgit Prinz and Inka Grings.
“I’m really surprised,” Marta sa...[Read on] |
Women in Film to Honor Holly Hunter and Jennifer Aniston
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Women in Film will honor Jennifer Aniston, Holly Hunter, Catherine Hardwicke, Elizabeth Banks and Petra Korner at the 2009 Crystal + Lucy Awards in LA on June 12th. The event will be hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Aniston will receive the Crystal Awards fo...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Book Award Nominees
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Here are the women who were nominated for the National Book Awards. Winners will be announced on November 18,
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Non-Fictio...[Read on] |
The Tonys and Hollywood
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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 ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s Cinematographer Roundtable
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I guess I should thank the Hollywood Reporter for making my job easy this week by providing me with such blatantly sexist material.
They posted their conversation with cinematographers and SURPRISE there is not a single woman included.
I know that the...[Read on] |
Amnesty International honors Joan Baez for a lifetime of Human Rights Advocacy
| Amnesty International turns 50 this year, and closely linked to Amnesty’s legacy of championing human rights is that of folk legend Joan Baez.
Baez was an active supporter of Amnesty from the start, stuffing envelopes at their first home office in San ...[Read on] |
Indie Spirit Moments
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The last couple of weeks have been all Bigelow all the time, but since The Hurt Locker and the blue people weren’t up for any awards at this year’s Indie Spirits, it allowed other films to shine.
I was so psyched to see Gabby Sidibe (and Precious) wi...[Read on] |
Vote for Sportswoman of the Year
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It’s that time of year. Time to head over to the Women’s Sports Foundation website to vote for Sportswoman of the Year.
Every year, WSF recognizes an individual and team Sportswoman whose performances over a 12-month time span have been exceptional...[Read on] |
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