Theresa Rebeck’s Play ‘O Beautiful’ at University of Delaware

NYTimes.com: "When the playwright Theresa Rebeck was writing for the ABC drama “NYPD Blue” in the 1990s, she proposed a story line in which a main female character considers an abortion — and then has one, a rare outcome on American television. But the idea was rejected as toxic for the character, she said. Ms. Rebeck later pitched an abortion-themed project to Lifetime, then known by the tag line Television for Women, but that cable channel passed, too.