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Listen to Holland Taylor Talk About Playing Ann Richards in a New One Woman Show
Ann begins previews at the Kennedy Center in DC before hopefully coming to Broadway. Here is Taylor talking to David Gregory in a Meet the Press extra.
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Marsha Norman to Write Play Dealing with Plight of Women and Girls
The United Nations Department of Public Information, through its Creative Community Outreach Initiative (CCOI) has joined forces with Theatre for Humans a producing entity out of LA to create a play based on stories of women and girls throughout the world. The play will be "dedicated to telling the...
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Update: Five Female Playwrights Will be on Broadway This Fall
Here is an update to yesterday's post about Theresa Rebeck's play opening on Broadway. It seems that there will be several female written plays opening on the great white way this fall. Great news. At least there will be women eligible to be nominated for a Tony next year. I just wish that we di...
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A Female Playwright Will Be on Broadway Next Season
After a disappointing year where not a single female written new play was produced on Broadway, word comes in now that next season will at least have some female representation.
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Guest Post: We Want More Female-Written Plays! by Katherine Bowman
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI) recently conducted a study on the number of female-written plays produced in LA. The number is a disappointing yet unsurprising 20%.
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Julie Taymor Talks Spiderman at LA Theatre Conference
I'm a bit obsessed about the Julie Taymor/Spiderman situation. Mostly I'm obsessed because of what this will mean for her career, but also what it will mean for other women's careers. Since her departure from the show several months ago, the narrative has been created by everyone else by her, mostly by necessity, since it didn't make sense for her to speak while she was trying to negotiate terms. But still, she was made out to be this incredibly difficult person who would not listen to reason and change the show so that it would be more commercial. Hardy any blame was given to the musicians The Edge and Bono who had never written a musica...
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A Class Act: Julie Taymor Appears Onstage at the Opening of Spiderman
After being thrown under the bus and fired several months ago and not being paid for her work (she is now in arbitration with the show to get back pay), Julie Taymor was welcomed onstage following the long awaited opening night of Spiderman.
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In Their Own Voices: The Female Tony Winners
Frances McDormand - she won for best actress in a play for Good. I love the denim jacket.
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Tony Awards Winners: The Women
It was a sucky season for women creatives (meaning playwrights and musical creators) at the Tonys this year. Don't only take my word for it. Here's another piece by Princeton academic Jill Dolan on the lack of female Tony nominees.
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The Lilly Awards: Saving Women From Disappearing in Theatre
The Tony Awards are on Sunday night. There are very few female nominees. Even the NY Times is starting to think this is a problem. (Note to NY Times theatre writers and reviewers - don't think that just because you are writing this story you are relieved of your own complicity in this problem. W...
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