Theresa Rebeck

Standing Up and For Women

When I first started Women and Hollywood I knew that I wanted to the site to support women and their roles and accomplishments in pop culture but I really did not know exactly what that meant.

Theresa Rebeck on Leaving Smash and New Play, Dead Accounts

Two Women Written Shows Bound for Broadway This Fall

Katie Holmes' first professional engagement in her post Tom Cruise life will be on the Broadway stage in Theresa Rebeck's latest play Dead Accounts.  The play premiered in January in Cincinnati and will play at the Music Box Theatre in NYC this fall.  Rebeck's play Seminar star...

The Third Annual Lilly Awards

In advance of the Tony Awards next Sunday where no women writers were nominated, The Third Annual Lilly Awards (named after playwright Lillian Hellman) were handed out in NYC.  The awards are conferred by the Committee for Recognizing Women in Theater which is made up of 25 professionals workin...

Tony Nominations: Good for Female Directors, Horrible for Female Writers

Last June after a season where not a single female playwright was produced on Broadway it was announced that there would be at least five women with plays in the just ended 2011-2012 season.  Four of the expected plays opened: The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond, Relat...

Smash Gets Renewed But Creator and Showrunner Theresa Rebeck Departs

With a one-two punch on Thursday afternoon, NBC renewed Smash -- the show about creating a musical based on Marilyn Monroe, but also revealed that the creator, main writer, executive producer and showrunner Theresa Rebeck will be leaving the show.  (Full disclosure - Theresa Rebeck is a friend....

A "Smash"ing Premiere

While I might write about Hollywood I live in NY.  I really don't get to see the everyday machinations of the business.  I like it that way.  It keeps it more mysterious.

The Athena Film Festival Awardees and Lineup

Most of you dear loyal readers and friends know that I am the artistic director of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College.  It is something very near and dear to my heart and keeps me quite busy this time of the year.  The second annual festival will take place from February 9-12.

Trailer Watch: Katharine McPhee in Smash

Katharine McPhee gets the star treatment in this video from Smash (which is created by Theresa Rebeck.)  Show will premiere on February 6.  Check out all the other great stars in it.  Debra Messing.  Anjelica Huston.  And did you notice a famous comedian in there?