#Theatre
Sundance 2021 Women Directors: Meet Nikole Beckwith – “Together Together”
Writer and director Nikole Beckwith made her feature film debut at Sundance 2015 with “Stockholm, Pennsylvania,” which earned her a Nicholl Fellowship, Satellite Award, Women’s Image Award, and...
You’re Invited: W&H’s Melissa Silverstein Will Be Special Guest in Gloria Steinem Play
Women and Hollywood’s Founder and Publisher is set to serve as Special Guest in “Gloria: A Life,” an interactive play about iconic feminist Gloria Steinem. On November 15 Melissa...
Irish Theaters Implement Gender Equality Policies
Last year, the Irish Film Board (IFB) announced various initiatives aimed at furthering its “Six Point Gender Plan,” which ultimately aims to achieve 50/50 gender parity in funding by the...
Guest Post: Submitting Like a Man: My Year Resubmitting Scripts As A Dude
This is the first installment of the blog Submitting Like A Man (SLAM), created by writer Mya Kagan. The project examines what happens when Mya resubmits scripts to previously rejected...
Five Plays by Lucy Thurber to Open Simultaneously in New York
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is putting on a festival dedicated to the playwright Lucy Thurber this month. Thurber’s series of 5 plays, The Hill Town Plays, will be staged...
Questioning the Canon
When I arrived at graduate school for theatre we were told to have read books entitled “Famous American Plays” of the 20s, 30s, 40s etc. before we arrived. I did as I was told and really...
Debra Messing Making Broadway Debut in Outside Mullingar
Early next year, Debra Messing will make her Broadway debut in Outside Mullingar. Messing will co-star with Brian F. O’Byrne in the production. Written by John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) the...
Trailer for Kim Cattrall in Sweet Bird of Youth
I’m kicking myself for not getting a ticket to see Sweet Bird of Youth when I was in London last week especially since Kim Cattrall has been so outspoken on the issue of aging and women and...
More Plays About Women Were Written in the 1900s than Today
At an event that celebrated theater during the Suffragette movement, Professor Maggie Gale from the University of Manchester, revealed that her research had found that there were more plays written...
Julie Taymor Receives Sackler Center First Award
Julie Taymor received the Sackler Center First Award, which recognizes women who are “first” in their field. The Center honored Taymor’s varied career including being the first...
Cross Post: On Gender Parity
The issue of gender parity in the theater, and celebrating more female writers, has been on my mind for a while now. Part of that is just out of a sense of fairness....
The 2013 Tony Awards — Women Win Big
Even though I don’t get to the theatre as much as I used to, it will always remain my first love. And last night’s Tony Awards were a reminder to me of why I fell in love in the...
Lois Smith, Jessica Hecht and Paula Vogel Among the Honorees at The 4th Annual Lilly Awards
The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre along with Julia Jordan, Theresa Rebeck, Marsha Norman, and Tim Sanford have announced the honorees for the 4th annual Lilly Awards. The...
Bette Midler on Broadway in I’ll Eat You Last
I’ll Eat You Last takes place on a fateful day in 1981 when Sue Mengers got the phone call that she was no longer representing Barbra Streisand. The two most powerful women in Hollywood...
Nora Ephron, Cyndi Lauper Among Tony Award Nominees
Earlier this week, the 2013 Tony awards nominations were announced. Nora Ephron received a posthumous nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. Iconic pop star, Cyndi Lauper, was nominated for...
Marianne Elliott and Helen Mirren Win at Olivier Awards
This year’s Olivier Awards winners, Britian’s prestigious awards for excellence in theatre, were announced on Sunday in London. Some new changes for the awards this year included a new...
Cicely Tyson on Her Career, New Broadway Role and Making a Difference
The great Cicely Tyson was recently profiled on CBS News for her new role on Broadway. Tyson, an award-winning actress, hasn’t been on the Broadway stage in 30 years. She’s starring in a...
2013 Lucille Lortel Awards Nominations Announced
This year’s Lucille Lortel Awards nominees have been announced and it’s great news for women writers. 3 of the 5 plays nominated for Outstanding Play are written by women. The Lucille...
Bette Midler Takes Broadway as Infamous Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers
The iconic Bette Midler is hitting Broadway again for the first time in 40 years playing another iconic woman, Hollywood agent Sue Mengers. In John Logan’s I’ll Eat You Last, Midler...
Guerrilla Girls Call for Girlcott of The Alley Theatre
Houston’s Alley Theatre announced its 2013-14 season with 9 plays that examine the “American character.” Not one of the plays is written by a female playwright. All 9 plays are...
Julie Taymor Settles Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Lawsuit
As we had recently reported, a trial date had been set for May between Taymor and Michael Cohl and Jeremiah Harris, producers of the musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark. This had been after months...
Playwright’s Horizons Stands Up and For Women Playwrights
Playwright’s Horizons, one of the most important institutions that supports new plays and musicals, has announced it’s upcoming season and it is full of women. Five of the six plays...
Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen to Receive Obie Lifetime Achievement Award
Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen are set to share this year’s Obie Lifetime Achievement Award. While it’s an award both certainly deserve, they should each have their own. Smith made...
Bette Midler as Sue Mengers in I’ll Eat You Last
I am so there. Previews begin April 5. Tickets here.
Taymor vs. Spider-Man Sets Trial Date
As we previously reported, Julie Taymor’s lawsuit against the producers of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark was revived back in January. However, the expected settlement between the parties...
Annie Baker Wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Annie Baker has won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Flick, an exploration of love, friendships and work. New York Times theater critic, Charles Isherwood spoke highly...
Holland Taylor Takes on Ann Richards on Broadway
Holland Taylor, who TV audiences will know well from Two and a Half Men, is taking on a new role–Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. Taylor will star as Richards in Ann, which she...
A Sisterhood With a Glass Ceiling
The NY Times devoted the top story in the Arts and Leisure section this past weekend to an exciting thing happening off-Broadway, the fact that women are being regularly hired to direct shows. The...
Taymor vs. Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark Lawsuit Back On
The complicated saga of Julie Taymor’s infamous Spider-Man:Turn off the Dark continues, with the revival of her lawsuit against the producers of the musical. Taymor first filed the suit in...
Bette Midler Returns to Broadway After 30 Years
Bette Midler is making a return to Broadway after a 30 year absence. She'll be starring as Sue Mengers in I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers. Mengers is still regarding as the most...
Women Severely Underrepresented in British Theatre
Last month the Guardian, building on earlier research of Elizabeth Freestone, artistic director of Pentabus theatre, took a look at the status of women in British Theatre and found some disturbing...
Cross Post: Too Old?
DC playwrights are watching their "in" boxes this week, awaiting word about whether they've been accepted into Arena Stage's playwrights' group. Six locals will be invited to...
Amy Herzog Receives 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
The New York Times awarded their 2012 Outstanding Playwright Award to Amy Herzog for her play After the Revolution. After the Revolution, an off-Broadway hit, follows an extremely...
Emotional Creature Celebrates Girls Lives
There have been so few shows and events that truly reveal what it is like to be a girl that when you see truth – the good and the bad – you immediately know that you are seeing something...