The International Center for Women Playwrights (ICWP) has announced a new awards program for theatre companies that are achieving gender parity by producing seasons where 50% or more of the […]
Women artists are responding to the recent shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and elsewhere by organizing for more gun control legislation. In Washington, D.C. there will be a March […]
For the third installment of our series on the movement for equity for women playwrights, we’re profiling the Black Women Playwrights’ Group, a Washington DC-based group that expanded its activities […]
Deborah Steinberg, our Director of Artist Services, has written two pieces for the WomenArts Blog this week about groups fighting for gender equality in theatre – the Los Angeles Female […]
As a follow-up to last week’s post on the Los Angeles Female Playwrights’ Initiative, this week we’ll be taking a look at the movement that spawned the West Coast group: […]
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, or LAFPI, was formed almost 2 years ago by playwrights Laura Shamas and Jennie Webb as a local, West Coast branch of the national […]
Happy SWAN Day 2012! Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Fifth International SWAN Day. Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, spreading […]
Dear Friends, One of the main goals of Support Women Artists Now/ SWAN Day is to help people imagine what the world would be like if women’s visions and perspectives […]
On Thursday, March 15 and Friday, March 16, Tressa Glover and Don DiGiulio of the No Name Players presented SWAN Day Pittsburgh. I attended the Thursday night performance and I […]
On Tuesday, March 13, I saw Lenelle Moïse’s latest work in progress, Ache What Make, at the month-long Women Center Stage Festival in New York.Moïse is Haitian-American, and “Ache What […]
To prepare for my recent visit to New York, I searched the WomenArts SWAN Day Calendar and discovered an amazing panel discussion that I attended on Monday, March 12 at […]
Please join me tonight, Thursday, March 15 for Support Women Artists Now Day/SWAN Day Pittsburgh produced by the No Name Players at The New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East […]
Celebrating SWAN Day for the fifth year, DC SWAN Day, organized by The Georgetown Theatre Company, will expand its multi-disciplinary festival of women in the arts outside of Georgetown, with […]
(New York, NY) On Sunday, March 11, I attended the matinee and evening segments of the Women Center Stage Directors Weekend, a showcase where 12 women directors were asked to […]
I visited Northampton, Massachusetts on February 16 for the first official SWAN 2012 event – a production of Truth, a new folk opera about the fiery abolitionist and women’s rights […]