Gender

Holly L. Derr writes about different all-female productions of Shakespeare's plays and how this opens up further opportunities for discussion about gender, relationships, and the timelessness of the stories.

Daniel Jones examines the critical reception of Rapture, Blister, Burn, and invites us to look more closely about how the gender of the critic effects the fate of the new play.

Time for action. This Weekly Howl focuses on concrete ideas and practices for achieving Gender Parity in the theatre.

Rachel Grossman of dog & pony dc writes about her experience as a female artistic director, and the problematic side effects of working in a post-feminist art form while still grappling with pre-feminist issues.

Heather Kitchen offers reflective insight on gender parity and shares examples on how it has affected her career.

Lauren Gunderson writes about the failings of theatre to be a lens for society, and the inability to properly represent real life without the voices of women.

Lauren Gunderson interviews playwright Lydia Diamond about feeling forced to choose a piece of her marginalized self to construct her stories.

Julia Jordan writes about the push for gender parity in theater, and how demanding change is vital to fixing theater's woman problem.

With the community advocating for better gender parity, Theatre Bay Area has made a commitment to furthering the discussion about gender bias and how to take action.

This week on Holler: what to do about sexual harrassment in the theater.

Laura Shamas on the steps she and Jennie Webb took to create of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

If the play doesn’t explicitly need the genders prescribed to convey the story-do we need to cast the roles as listed then? It is time to start talking about open-gender conversation.

If we accept the notion that we have to wait for someone to decide when we have emerged as an artist-we will always be emerging artists. It is time to emerge and make the work happen.

Meghan Arnette maps out why she's concerned about the lack of productions by female playwrights... and why anyone who cares about the future of the American theater should be too.

P. Carl on why the lack of stories on American Stages about those who do not identify with a single gender, and the need to change it.

For Catherine Trieschmann, parenthood interrupted her playwriting process by taking up time that used to be spent daydreaming.

In this installment of the series From Scarcity to Abundance: Capturing the Moment for the New Work Sector, Anthony Werner interviews Karen L.B. Evans of the Black Women Playwrights' Group on the future and the intersection of technology and live theatre.