Where Are the Women? Parity Productions Is Keeping a List
The New York City company spotlights—and helps sell tickets for—shows that meet or surpass gender parity.
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The New York City company spotlights—and helps sell tickets for—shows that meet or surpass gender parity.
Once again, new plays far outnumber revivals and classics—and they’re the only sector in which the playwriting gender gap is narrowing.
This weekend, Age & Gender Equity in the Arts will host a symposium about unconscious bias at Portland State University.
A study of a recent season in the Windy City found that women wrote just 25 percent of plays and directed 36 percent.
Women wrote just 26% of plays in the coming season, and men 63%, and new plays are outperforming old.
Of 1,914 shows planned for the 2015-16 season, how many are written by women? We’ve got the stats.
These organizations have made programming a preponderance of female playwrights a priority.
A new study finds that only around a quarter of plays produced in recent years were by women, with figures for directors and actors closer to parity.
The performance artist-turned-playwright wrote his first naturalistic play about gender, family and trans issues, and along the way he fell in love with the form.
Elaine Avila interviews Lisa Wolpe, the director and artistic leader of the LA Women’s Shakespeare Company whose specialty is playing Shakespearean men.