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Cultureshed
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About Last Night

TT: A little taste
Here's a photograph of the scale model of Hildegard Bechtler's set for the opening scene of The Letter. The first thing the audience hears is gunfire on a darkened stage. Then the lights come up

BBB-Blogger

* Dates Added: NT Live to broadcast Phèdre with Helen Mirren

Footlight Records Blog

Newly Listed at Footlight

Forty Days to Forty Plays

DAY 23: JON KERN
Jon Kern has had his worked produced locally and internationally. He’s a member of EST/Youngblood, The Old Vic New Voices Network, and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

Fractured Atlas

Do We Discriminate Against Female Playwrights?
The NY Times reports on a fascinating study of gender bias in American non-profit theatre. As expected, research conducted by economics students at Princeton University confirmed that female playwrights are less likely to have their work produced than their male counterparts.

The Halcyon Blog

Notes on the Festival
Below are the "From the Artistic Director" notes for the Alcyone Festival Program. (You'll get a copy when you swing by and catch the shows.) I figured I'd re-post them here:

The Mirror up to Nature

Amusing Side Note from the Gender Bias Study

The Mission Paradox

A Key Principle
The Principle of Priority says:

99seats

A Thought About Bias
In this article, as with other places I've seen, the shocker seems to be that women adminstrators are rating plays by other women more negatively. That's one thing that actually makes perfect sense to me. Chances are that woman is going to have to answer to a man, either an artistic ...

NYC Performing Arts Spaces

For Something Everyone Says is Dead, It Sure Makes a Lot of Money
There's a new study out by the Off Broadway Alliance, which tracks a...

On Theatre and Politics

The NY Times covers the gender bias a bit more
Provocative, no? Read on!...

Pal Joey Blog

Hoff Set To Co-Star in LA Production of “Parade”

Parabasis

A Designer Prepares Part II
Kick-ass light designer Lucas Krech continues his three part series giving Parabasis readers a glimpse into his process! Woot.

a poor player

Female Playwrights Study
This is probably important enough to pass it on to anyone crusing through here today. It’s the NY Times story about the meeting held on Monday at 59E59 concerning the perceived production disparity between male and female playwright. Some widely-held assumptions are true, others not so much. It’s clearly worth a read.

The Producer's Perspective

The NEA has news for all of us. Spoiler Alert: it ain't good.
Five times over the past 25 years, the NEA and the US Census Bureau have surveyed adults in this country about their arts consumption and released the stats in what they call "the nation's largest and most representative periodic stuf of adult participation in arts events and activities."

Steve On Broadway

Best Laugh On Broadway (Abridged)
Folks, seriously, if you're not reading Broadway Abridged, you need to start now.