A Pulitzer Shortlist Bursting With Women! (Yes, It Matters.)

ARTicles: "Given the widely leaked shortlist of this year's contenders for the Pulitzer Prize for drama -- Gina Gionfriddo's 'Becky Shaw,' Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' 'In the Heights,' and Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined' -- there couldn't have been much question that 'Ruined' would win. An astonishingly beautiful, frequently comic, quietly defiant play about war and rape in the Congo, it achieves what might seem impossible: An audience that has been moved to weep with visceral horror leaves the theater feeling not despair but genuine, buoyant hope. Written by a veteran playwright with a strong body of work, 'Ruined' is everything Pulitzer juries love -- and it's good."