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Rethinking Gender Bias… in Theater

It’s true that since moving to Madison in 1991, violence prevention has been a passion at the center of my life; but those that know me know that it shares that space in my heart with performing arts.

So, when I find areas and ways in which these two overlap they fascinate me – as does this interesting article from the New York Times which, though written in 2009 was just brought to my attention:

When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men.

And they did. But they also heard that women who are artistic directors and literary managers are the ones to blame.

Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/theater/24play.html?_r=1

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