Helen Hunt Runs the Show in “Our Town”

The moment she enters, walking quickly, in her masculine work boots and jeans, you know that she is a woman in charge. That’s what a real stage manager is, after all, but in most productions of ...Read More

New Fire From Cherríe Moraga

It was said that during times of chaos, this female force came down to earth to put things right again. — Roadwoman, New Fire Before there was intersectionality, there was Cherríe Moraga, playwright ...Read More

Project Girl Power

A couple of weeks ago, the staff of Ms. magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation were treated to a live, in-office performance by five members of New York’s Project Girl Performance Collective. ...Read More

Always the Bridesmaids, Never the Brides

I felt as giddy as a bridesmaid to learn that Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays was settling in for a cozy run at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. As a proponent of same-sex marriage ...Read More

The Personal Is Political and Always Has Been

What happens when you take the Trojan women out of The Trojan Women? That’s what playwright Jocelyn Clarke has done in his new play Trojan Women (after Euripides), adapted from the Greek playwright ...Read More

Playwright Alice Childress: An African American Classic Finds New Life

When The Help premiered earlier this summer, African American feminists bemoaned the lack of civil rights narratives told by the black women who actually lived through the era. Though it probably ...Read More

Other Ovarian Acts

Looking for a centerpiece for your upcoming fundraiser? Interested in the transformative power of activist art? Look no further: That Takes Ovaries, by Rivka Solomon and Bobbi Ausubel, is powerful ...Read More

“That Takes Ovaries”–A Play for the Bold and Brazen

Some may be tempted to liken Rivka Solomon’s and Bobbi Ausubel’s play That Takes Ovaries to The Vagina Monologues because they’re both collections of women’s stories and they’re ...Read More

“Porgy And Bess,” Without the Sexism and Racism?

How should artists approach remounting the classics? Should they respect all of the author’s original intentions and stage a version of the show that reflects them perfectly? Or should they ...Read More

Feminist Performance Art Blooms Anew at Dixon Place

Dixon Place, on New York City’s Lower East Side, is many things: theater, performance laboratory … bar. But one thing it is not? Beholden to trends in art or performance. The 25-year-old venue, ...Read More

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