One of the serendipitous rewards of time spent in New York City is the rediscovery of long lost and forgotten connections.
Here Comes the Swan
Instead of Swan talk, I’m attaching an announcement about the recent death of my dear friend and mentor, Julia Miles, founder of The Women’s Project and Productions in New York City in the 1980’s.
At Long Last
Broadway… really can’t maintain its status as the place where new playwrights, especially women, go to gain recognition.
Nasty Women
Women do not see their crucial concerns acted on the stage, we do not read theatre reviews written by women critics, and… women do not buy the majority of tickets to the plays we write.
The Women’s Project Theater: Good News At Last
Over time, the survival of the Women’s Project, the largest and oldest theatre in this country supporting the work of women, will depend on our ability as past and present and future supporters to believe in a restored vision. Good luck, Lisa!
Update on The Womens Project
The petition protesting the termination of Julie Crosby as Artistic Director of the Women’s Project gained the signatures of over seven hundred people. The signers included this country’s most accomplished theatre artists, leaders, managers, and supporters.
Latest News from the Women’s Project
Commitment to this kind of work, edgy, daunting, representing visions seldom seen on our stages, demands a commitment over the course of two generations that may be simply too hard to come by.
The Women’s Project: Memory, Sadness and Celebration
Somewhere among us there is another inspired woman producer, another inspired women director, and surely more than one inspired woman playwright who will bring on the next transformation.
Goodbye to the Women’s Project
I tended my resignation from the Advisory Board of the Women’s Project, as have most of its other members.
That Old Baby of Mine…
We were fearless back then, as we have continued to be.