Join us for an afternoon of SWAN Day Micro-reads on the theme of Change on Saturday, March 17 from 1 - 3:30 at the Samuel French Bookshop. The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative is hosting SWAN Day Los Angeles 2018, where we'll “Support Women Artists NOW!” by connecting women playwrights & directors and actors in a SWAN Day Micro-Read Hook-Up! […]
In recognition of Women’s History Month, Yvette Heyliger (Twinbiz) has teamed up with Dominique Sharpton-Bright (National Action Network) to present #MeToo Theatre Women Share Their Stories, readings of tweets, monologues, music and scenes on the subject of sexual assault or sexual misconduct within the theatre industry. The readings will be followed by a brief talk […]
Why Do We Know More About Kim Kardashian Than Abigail Adams? Amy Simon knew something needed to be done when her ten-year-old daughter came home from school, stating she was planning on doing her women’s history project on Cher, or Janet Jackson. Combining theater, history, multi-media, audience interaction, and good old-fashioned story telling, SHE’S HISTORY! […]
We already observe Women's History Month. Now it's time to celebrate Women-Loving-Women's History Month. Pride Films & Plays presents History Lezons, a festival of short plays spotlighting the formidable fortitude of our foremothers: both factual figures in history and fictional figures of the playwrights' own creations. Written and directed by women, these plays refine, define, and […]
Ever wonder what would happen if SNL & “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” had a child and hired Tim Minchin as the manny? We have the answer! Broad Comedy has been producing snarky, provocative and lovable all-women’s comedy and musical-satire since 2001. Internationally touring, award-winning, and with YouTube hits reaching in the millions, Broad Comedy […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
A documentary play about seven women leaders written by seven women playwrights. SEVEN has been performed around the globe, translated into over 30 languages and published by Dramatists Play Service and recently published in Japanese. For details of its journey please see www.seventheplay.com
We already observe Women's History Month. Now it's time to celebrate Women-Loving-Women's History Month. Pride Films & Plays presents History Lezons, a festival of short plays spotlighting the formidable fortitude of our foremothers: both factual figures in history and fictional figures of the playwrights' own creations. Written and directed by women, these plays refine, define, and […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
We already observe Women's History Month. Now it's time to celebrate Women-Loving-Women's History Month. Pride Films & Plays presents History Lezons, a festival of short plays spotlighting the formidable fortitude of our foremothers: both factual figures in history and fictional figures of the playwrights' own creations. Written and directed by women, these plays refine, define, and […]
"Act Like a Feminist Artist - A Guerrilla Girl Unmasks" is an insiders look at what went behind the posters, protests, fax blitzes, speak outs and street theatre actions the Guerrilla Girls used to attack and expose sexism and racism in theatre. Inspired by Guerrilla Girl Aphra Behn's (aka Donna Kaz) twenty years on the front line […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
Lysistrata in Jerusalem, a new play by Jean R. Freedman in cooperation with Abeer Shehadeh. A staged reading for SWAN Day, at Busboys and Poets, Takoma (Nicolás Guillén Room), 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012 In Lysistrata in Jerusalem Jean R. Freedman has updated Aristophanes' classic comedy in which women from warring city-states band together and refuse […]
A new comedy about family valuables. Written by Patricia Milton & Directed by Gary Graves Inspired by a true story…Abby is a young appraiser touring with “Antiques Roadtrip.” She’s a black woman from L.A. traveling in the south—Shelby County, Tennessee. When she’s accused of defrauding a Daughter of the Confederacy out of a fortune in Civil […]
New Visions, New Voices 2018 is a festival of staged readings including four original plays written by women undergraduate seniors in the B.F.A./Theatre Studies program at Southern Methodist University. Dates: March 22-25 Place: Greer Garson Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, Texas Tickets: Free AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF I DO by Caroline Hamilton […]
