Golden Thread Productions, a feisty San Francisco theatre company that focuses on plays about the Middle East, is offering discounts to two irreverent shows from Toronto that challenge expectations of Middle […]
The International Centre for Women Playwrights is honoring 67 theatres in 9 countries with 50/50 Applause Awards for 2014. The awards are given to theatres that have produced 50% or […]
Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Seventh International Support Women Artists Now/SWAN Day. Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, spreading the […]
This Saturday, March 29th, the Maiden Voyage Theatre Ensemble will celebrate SWAN Day with a choral reading of Beah Richards’ famous poem, A Black Woman Speaks at 3:00 pm at the […]
On Sunday, March 30th, 2014 at 3:00 pm, Legros Cultural Arts, will host a SWAN Day event commemorating the life and achievements of Chantal Legros, their Founder and Executive Director […]
The intrepid LA Female Playwrights Initiative brings SWAN Day to Hollywood this Saturday with their SWAN Day Action Fest, a free festival of playreadings and connections on March 29 from 10:30 […]
No Name Players will present the sixth annual SWAN Day Pittsburgh at 8 p.m. this Saturday, March 29 at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In previous SWAN Day Pittsburgh events, […]
The Athena Project, a group of professional women artists in Denver, has organized an ambitious three-week festival which will feature a world-premiere play by Erin Wagoner, workshops of four new plays […]
As one of the very few classically trained female practitioners of the Japanese Noh and Kyogen theatre styles, Yuriko Doi has focused on bringing innovative East-West fusion work to Western […]
When the Recession broke in 2008, writer Christian McEwen noticed that the media focused almost exclusively on male stories – either the scandalous behavior of the men on Wall Street or […]
Last week WomenArts did a blog about the 8-week city-wide Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington, DC, which is scheduled for September and October 2015. WomenArts wrote to Arena Stage […]
Forty-four theatres in Washington, DC will each produce a world-premiere play written by woman in Fall 2015 as part of the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival. Three cheers for the co-organizers […]
What is it like for a woman when her husband becomes the President of the United States? When suddenly the person that she used to pester about taking out the […]
WomenArts Joins Forces with Powerful Feminist Arts Groups WomenArts is delighted to announce that we will be joining forces with the Women in Arts and Media (WAM) Coalition and the […]
For playwrights and other theatre artists who want comprehensive listings of funding and other opportunities, WomenArts highly recommends The Playwrights’ Center. Their website and newsletters are an excellent source of […]