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Designing Woman
[New York; June 4,1978. Image via Getty]
Lilly Awards Honor Female Theater Artists
In response to the dearth of women at the Tonys, a group of artists held the first ever Lilly Awards on Sunday. "Whining does no good, so we decided to give a party," said Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. [Variety]
Women Often Remains In The Shadows On Broadway
Sarah Ruhl, whose Tony-nominated play In The Next Room stars four women, agrees with everyone that there were few other meaty roles for women on Broadway this year because few people fund plays about complicated women. [NY Times]
Stars Fail To Shine At The 62nd Annual Tony Awards; Theatre Geeks Weep
Ah, the Tonys. When the hearts of a million high-schoolers in Cats T-shirts go pitter-pat. The Broadway community owes it to these kids to really bring it one night a year, and I gotta say… The Miss Saigon lover in me was disappointed. I wanted more glitz, more tack, more joie - what we got was a lot of tasteful…

