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Gender

Content here is about theatre works that explicitly address gender or about issues around gender in the field at large. Don’t miss MJ Kaufman’s series Gender Power and Politics or studies on who designs and directs in LORT theatres by pronoun and women’s leadership in LORT theatres. Many of these pieces also take an intersectional approach, such as “We Have Suffered Enough: The Cost of Performing Trauma for Women of Color” and “Let Them Speak: It’s Time to See More Works from Women Writers of Color on Stages Across America.”

The Latest

Podcast
Centering Women and Palestinian Solidarity at Golden Thread
by Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson
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Video
A Conversation with Joey Arias
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Monday 6 April 2026
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Video
We Begin With Classics: How To Radically Impact the Theater Landscape
Monday 30 March 2026
New York City
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Series

Artists/Ideas/Now

Artist-led conversations exploring some of the biggest issues facing the world today

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Series

Through A Black Woman’s Lens

A six-part virtual panel series examining the world of Broadway, Hollywood, Business, Literature, Spirituality, Sexuality, Academia and Misogynoir through a Black Woman’s perspective

A 6-part series with some America’s leading Black women from the world of literature, film, academia, theater, tech and business

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Series

Teacakes and Tarot with Will Wilhelm

One part cocktail party and one part slumber party!

Theatre, Classics, and the future of queer inclusive practices are all in the cards during this intimate interview series with your next artistic crush

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Series

Conversations Across Generations

Dialogues with UK based Performance Artists

Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.

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Series

Staging Gendered Violence

The contributions to this series focus on solutions and ways forward as much as critiques of existing practice, creating a kind of toolkit for creatives and critics alike to approach the genuinely difficult questions raised by the issue of staging gendered violence ethically and responsibly.

Series

Who Designs and Directs in LORT Theatres By Pronoun

This is a series of four reports written by Porsche McGovern over the course of five years, looking at who directs and designs set, costume, lighting, sound, and projections in US LORT theatres by gender.

Essay

Reflections Post-Harvey Weinstein

14 November 2017

Lydia Stryk adds to the conversation on sexual harassment by people in power, speaking up about her experiences with sexual harassment and humiliation in the theatre.

Series

Love Sonnets

Things Women Say

This series chronicles the production process for Love Sonnets: Things Women Say, a compilation of monologues for women.

Series

Submitting Like a Man

The project examines what happens when a woman resubmits scripts to previously rejected opportunities, this time using a man’s name.

Series

Boy Writes Girl

This blog series analyzes the sanctified “Great Female Roles” written by men, and the patterns in which male playwrights craft female characters from myth, history, current events, or whole cloth.

Series

Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town South Africa

Aphra Behn from Guerilla Girls On Tour reports on the 2015 Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Series

Gender Power and Politics Series by MJ Kaufman

MJ Kaufman begins a new blog series, exploring questions of gender and parity in the world of performance.

Series

Transgender Series

A series from trans theatre artists that highlight diverse stories of a trans community of practicing artists working to create visibility in the theatre and the world.

Series

Gender Parity

A discussion and response to the call for better gender parity in theatre.

Series

League of Professional Women in Theatre 

An examination of theatremaking as a collaboration between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women.

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