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Most Diverse Broadway Season Ever: If You Leave Out Women

By: Sara Warner | June 9, 2016

Unfortunately “Hamilton’s” audacious experiments in cross-racial casting don’t include gender play. The number of women nominated (other than lead or featured actresses) couldn’t fill a chorus line.

Arts & Culture

Street-Theater Pickets Played Against War Backdrop

By: Louise Bernikow | December 22, 2006

Jan. 10, 1917: Spectacles begin outside the gates of the White House.

Religion

Two Catholic Campuses Hush ‘Vagina Monologues’

By: Hannah Seligson | February 12, 2006

The “Vagina Monologues” are attaining the status of a Valentine’s Day tradition on many campuses. But two Catholic schools are scaling back the performances this year and one activist group is working to eliminate V-Day from all Catholic campuses.

Art

All the World’s a Stage for Anti-Violence Campaign

By: Robin Hindery | December 10, 2004

From cosmetics counters in luxury department stores to subways where performance art was carried out in secret, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence made all the world its stage.

Crime & Law

Settlement Reached in Domestic Violence Trial

By: Rebecca Vesely | June 18, 2002

Update: A domestic violence case that promised to alter the way American law enforcement agencies handle batterers was settled in San Francisco for $1 million.

African American

Pulitzer Winner Parks Talks about Being a First

By: Angeli R. Rasbury | April 11, 2002

Suzan-Lori Parks talks about being the first African-American woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize, and says she wishes she were the 101st.

The Nation

For Women in Theater, This Season Is Worst in Years

By: Ann Farmer | February 28, 2002

Women wrote two of the last four Pulitzer-prize winning plays and directed the two most popular musicals on Broadway. Yet overall representation of women in theater has plummeted, a new report says.

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