Julia’s Reading Room
Julia’s Reading Room was founded by Julia Miles, Gail Kriegel and Maxine Kern as a place for playwrights and directors to hear their work. Julia founded both the League of Professional Theatre Women and The Women’s Project, (now known as WP). As Producer of The Women’s Project, Julia scheduled regular monthly readings for the playwrights and directors to get feedback for their new works, to Read More »
Baayork Lee: Bring It ON!
February 18, 2018 Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the Year of the Dog and Baayork Lee blew us all away with her own fireworks at the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History series Monday, February 12th at The Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Honoring an Asian woman for the first time not only Read More »
Anita Yavich: Designing a World
ANITA YAVICH: DESIGNING A WORLD By Anne Phelan Anita Yavich won the Irene Sharaff Young Master Award in 2003, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design in 2006, and a Lucille Lortel Award in 2016. She has worked extensively in theatre and opera. Her designs have been on Broadway (Fool For Love, Chinglish, Venus in Fur, Anna in the Tropics); Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club Read More »
A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA WILCOX
A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA WILCOX by Catherine Castellani Choreographer Patricia Wilcox spoke to playwright Catherine Castellani for Seen & Heard on her day off from rehearsing the London cast of MOTOWN The Musical, which opened on March 8th, 2016. Wilcox is the choreographer of the original Broadway production, and is now bringing the London premiere to life with director Charles Randolph-Wright. Thank you for taking the Read More »
Georgia Stitt: Her Need to Tell. . . through Music
By Frances McGarry, Ph.D. Host/Producer First Online With Fran Her love of literature coupled with a flair for creating her own melodies as a child pianist coalesced into becoming the career choice for composer/lyricist Georgia Stitt. “I have always been a musician. When I was seven years old, I remember trying to play Bach and then [wanting to] improve it.” Her innate talent for inventing Read More »
Bridge to Change: An Interview with The Interval
In 2009 Victoria Myers was in Cusi Cram’s class at Primary Stages when Julia Jordan’s first study came out on gender bias in the American theatre. This study put numbers to something Victoria was dealing with: so few shows that were engaging her, few interesting roles for women her age, and nothing in the advertising and publicity of theatre that seemed to be talking to Read More »