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