Women and Hollywood: Broadway can be a disheartening place for women. Too few are represented as writers and directors, and women’s stories don’t often make it to the stage. The previous 2013-2014 season did not have a single new play by a woman or a new musical with a female composer, and it only featured new musicals with one female lyricist and one female bookwriter.
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I'm so happy to see an article like this written and published online. If I had to describe this article in one word, it would be comprehensive. At first, I thought the article was going to be a short-list of sorts of all the shows being written/ directed/ composed by women. I was very happy to see the author go into depth about each show and the careers of each woman. Seeing successful women on Broadway gives me hope. Broadway, with it's excess of male directors is a daunting place. These women are getting the publicity they deserve for their work. Now, are they being profiled because only because they're women? Yes (I've heard Doctor Zhivago's had it's... problems). I wish that this didn't happen, because their work is just as good as anyone's, but until the gender gap closes, I don't mind these articles. Let's give these women what they deserve; God knows they've worked for it.
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