#Marsha Norman

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Study: Nearly Two-Thirds of Theater Productions Written by White Male Playwrights

This year’s edition of The Count — a tally of regional, non-Broadway theater productions by playwrights’ gender and race — is out, and the results are grim. In the last three...

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Study Shows That More Plays Written by Women Are Being Staged

One month ago the women responsible for bringing “Fun Home” to the stage made history at the 69th annual Tony Awards. Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron became the first all-female writing team to win...

Awards, Features, News, Theater

How The Lilly Awards Help Make Women’s Stories Matter

The recipients of this year’s Lilly Awards gathered onthe stage of Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons Monday afternoon and remained thereas all the awards were presented, chatting, laughing,...

Interviews, News

Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Marsha Norman on Trapped Girls and the Perils of New Play Development

Crossposted with permission from The Interval. “I’ve become an activist, which was kind of a surprise to me. I thought it was going to be enough that I do it [write, succeed]; that my example...

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Oprah Headed for Broadway

Oprah Winfrey always wanted to be an actress. At a THR roundtable last year, Winfrey revealed that she was discouraged from pursuing acting during her teen years by her father, who declared, “No...

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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...

News, Theater

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...

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