Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater

Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater

By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: June 24, 2009
New York Times

A yearlong research project, conducted by a Princeton economics student, both confirms and upends assumptions about bias in the playwriting business.

Not Excited About the Tonys

The Tony Award nominations were announced today with a few surprises (mostly of the "Why weren't they nominated" variety) and very little excitement on my part.

Lynn Nottage Wins 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Lynn Nottage was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her play, Ruined, which was inspired by Mother Courage. Ruined is currently playing an extended engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage I at City Center. The play opened on February 10, and MTC is currently offering tickets through May 10. Read more about the play and the Pulitzer Prize at Broadway.com

New Portrait of Shakespeare Emerges

In a Time Magazine article, Stanley Wells, professor emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University and one of the world's most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, says he has identified a new portrait of the Bard.

Desktop Article Delivery

Desktop article delivery from the UW Libraries and beyond... at no cost for current UW students, faculty and staff

I want to let you know about a special pilot project the Libraries is conducting this spring that faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff will find useful.

From March through June, the UW Libraries will be piloting a service thatwill provide desktop delivery of journal articles. Libraries staff will pull and scan journal articles from print volumes held by the UW Libraries and deliver them electronically to your desktop free of charge. The purpose of the pilot is to gather data about the actual demand and costs for such a service. At the end of the academic year the results will be evaluated and we'll determine if a permanent pull and scan service is feasible. Of course, our budget situation for the coming year is uncertain at this point, but we think it's important to gather the data now so that we'll be in a position to make a decision in the future.

More information about the pilot project is available at http://www.lib.washington.edu/ill/pilot.html

Intiman Artistic Director Wins Tony

Bartlett Sher, Artistic Director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre, won the Tony Award for Best Director for his revival of South Pacific. Read more about his win and the other award winners in the New York Times.

Artists in the Workforce

The NEA has released a 250-page report, Artists in the Workforce" that tracks the number of professional artists across disciplines over a fifteen year period from 1990-2005. Not surprisingly, California had the highest number of actors per capita. There's an article in today's New York Times about the report with a breakdown of some of the statistics and a graph of artists by the numbers.