Here’s the piece I wrote on the awards for the Women’s Media Center.
On June 13, the Broadway community will celebrate a $1.02 billion dollar season with its annual Tony Awards. Amid all the pageantry it won’t take long to notice one glaring fact—very few female playwrights make it to the great white way. For the season that just ended, of the 11 new plays eligible for the Tony for best play, three were written by women (and one of those was a one woman show). And of those three, only one, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) by Sarah Ruhl, was nominated.
Read full piece here
