The gender and color gap persists in theater — in Baltimore and beyond

Baltimore Sun: In 1977, a young playwright and Yale drama student named Wendy Wasserstein wrote her first play, “Uncommon Women and Others,” featuring an all-female cast. “I can’t get into this,” said a man in the audience. “It’s all about girls.” Wasserstein went on to win both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for drama before her untimely death in 2006. It’s easy to look back now and laugh at that unenlightened time, when the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equality regardless of gender, was also being hotly debated across the United States.