It's 2022. In the theater, the number of productions of plays by female playwrights is well above where it was at the start of the 21st century. Female playwrights have not reached parity with male ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Her Words: A Celebration of Female Playwrights will be Oct. 27-29, 20204, and feature four plays from women-led theater ...

Tony-nominated playwright/journalist/novelist/filmmaker Nora Ephron once advised the graduating class of Wellesley College as follows: "Whatever you choose, however ...

Aphra Behn, the Restoration dramatist, appears frequently on syllabi, but rarely onstage. The first professional female playwright, she led Virginia Woolf to declaim, “All women together ought to let ...

Women’s voices are more prominent than ever in this year’s Traverse Theatre Fringe programme, Susan Mansfield brings together three playwrights at different life stages to compare experiences This ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by With “Macbeth” adaptations like “Peerless,” the inner lives of young women come into focus. By Diep Tran When the playwright Jiehae Park was in high ...

Urbanite Theatre, which is focusing on new works during its 11th season, is jump-starting the process by trying out three new plays by emerging female playwrights during its four-day Modern Works ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Vickie L. Evans was 9 years old, she started writing as a way of escape. Growing up south of Houston in Sugar Land, Texas, ...

When 26-year-old Millie lands a career-making debut as playwright at Canada’s National Theatre, celebration quickly turns to scrutiny after a press release describes her play as a “deeply personal ...

A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories ...

Plays are written to be staged, but presenting a new play as just a reading can smooth its trajectory. The playwright can hear how the words sound. They also might gauge audience reaction in time to ...