Broadway Women's Alliance Talks With iHeartRadio Broadway About Why The Organization Was Created

www.broadwayworld.com: The co-founders of the Broadway Women's Alliance recently sat down with iHeartRadio Broadway's SJ Arnegger to talk about why they created their organization. The Broadway Women's Alliance is open to all female-identifying members in the Broadway and Broadway adjacent community who wants to participate in peer-to-peer mentorship, community building and various events that take place throughout the year.

How Women in Hollywood Are Pushing for Inclusivity on and off Screen

Variety: With Hollywood’s growing appetite for diverse stories, women of color are beginning to make a bigger mark on the big and small screens. Alice Wu wrote “The Half of It,” a coming-of-age drama about a lesbian Chinese-American teen, as a love letter to her own mother. Starring Chinese American Leah Lewis, it debuted on Netflix in May.

Oklahoma! gets a Curly twist

www.limelightmagazine.com.au: Oklahoma! was the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein and was ground-breaking in its day, developing the idea of the “book musical” initiated by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II when they wrote Show Boat. Not only did Oklahoma! integrate the songs and dance into the narrative, but it used recurring musical motifs throughout to underpin the story.

Trends in ... women’s PPE

2020-10-25 | Safety+Health Magazine: Personal protective equipment for women should be based on women’s sizes – not men’s. Why is this important? Because PPE that doesn’t fit correctly won’t adequately protect female 
workers. To learn more, Safety+Health spoke with Melissa Black, CSP, president 
of MsR3 LLC and adjunct faculty member at Columbia Southern University, about the trends she’s seeing in PPE for 
women.

The Guerrilla Girls On Fighting Art World Sexism Since 1985

theattic.jezebel.com: In 1985, a group of artists formed the activist art group Guerrilla Girls, in response to a Museum of Modern Art exhibition of 169 artists with only 13 women and eight artists of color included. The anonymous group—composed mostly of artists using aliases borrowed from famous women artists, wearing gorilla masks to hide their identities—was hellbent on delivering institutional critique to the masses through striking advertisements that poked fun at the art world establishment while also calling out its deeply entrenched sexism and racism.

Not waiting for Godot: new show tackles Beckett's ban on women

Samuel Beckett | The Guardian: A dead man’s voice can travel a long way. In 1988, Samuel Beckett sued a Dutch theatre company for casting women in his existential drama Waiting for Godot. When Beckett died a year later, responsibility for his estate was passed down to his nephew Edward, who has since continued to throttle any production that sways from his uncle’s precise instructions.

'You're left to rot if you speak up': the abuse faced by female roadies

Music | The Guardian: Sandwich-maker. Foot-rubber. Mother. Eye candy. Enabler. Subordinate. Weakling. Women and non-binary (NB) touring crew members have heard it all while working as managers, sound techs, drivers, engineers and other roles – and resistance is mounting as live gigs fitfully begin to return.

Everything I Need To Know About Sound Design, I Learned From Ruth Bader Ginsburg

SoundGirls.org: Ok, maybe not EVERYTHING, but what I mean to say is that I can (and do) apply RBG’s wisdom anywhere. We lost a champion of the people, a defender of equality, and a warrior among women when we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it’s up to us to make sure that her legacy is carried out for ages to come. It sounds lofty, I know.

Why is the Theater Canon Filled with Men? These Women Want to Change That

Token Theatre Friends: “Why have we only been producing dead white men?” That was the question that Mary Candler asked herself one day. Candler runs Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, a Brooklyn-based company that specializes in classic plays and hiring women and non-binary individuals to star in and direct them. But there was a slight snag in their mission statement: the classical canon is white, male dominated.

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre appoints Margo Hall as new artistic director

Datebook: Nearly 40 years after its founding, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is welcoming its first female artistic director with the hiring of Margo Hall.

Hall, who brings more than 30 years of theater experience as an actor, director, playwright and educator, officially takes the helm at LHT on Wednesday, Sept. 16, succeeding interim Artistic Directors Aldo Billingslea and Darryl V. Jones, the theater company announced Wednesday, Sept. 9.

VenuesNow Announces 2020 Women Of Influence Honorees

Pollstar: VenuesNow, the sports and entertainment facility industry’s premier trade publication, today announced its 2020 Women of Influence honorees. Now in its 14th year, the Women of Influence award honors visionaries and outstanding leaders in sports and live entertainment for their positive impact on the industry. The 10 honorees are voted on by subscribers with one editor’s choice.

Katori Hall on Hiring All Female Directors for ‘P-Valley’

Variety: Katori Hall hired all women to direct her strip club dramedy “P-Valley” for Starz because she wanted to ensure the series showcased its stripper characters through an empathetic lens.

Although the playwright-turned-series creator and showrunner tells Variety she “did try to hire men,” during interviews she asked, “What is your definition of the female gaze? And I would say 10 times out of 10, the men did not have an answer to that question.”

For the Men Who Want to Support Women in Audio.

SoundGirls.org: I’ve been getting these questions a LOT lately- “How can I as a man support women in audio?” “What can we do to make the historically male-dominated world of audio/music production more inclusive to women?” “How do we get more women in audio and tech?”

The short answer is HIRE THEM! I should note that these questions have come from men in the business who truly wish to see the industry become more inclusive and balanced.

We Need to Talk About Harassment in Geek Spaces. Again.

The Mary Sue: This kind of article is hard to write, not just because the topic is upsetting, but because the amount of content and allegations that need to be discussed are overwhelming. In just the past week the accusations of grooming, expecting sex in return for advancement, harassment, unwanted touching, and endless other types of creepy behavior from influential men in comics, gaming, fiction (and other geek spaces I’m sure I’ve missed) have been too numerous to count. There are so many new reports and confessions every day that it’s pointless to talk about just one or even a few specifically.

Women Making (Sound) Waves: Reflections From Six Leading Sound Designers

urban excavations: SOUND DESIGNER Palmer Hefferan has noticed that, when watching a theatrical production, people have a hard time understanding things they don’t see. As opposed to visual design fields such as sets, costumes, or lights, she said, “They often don’t realize that there was a whole creative process and a person behind what they’re hearing.” For Hefferan, sound can feel “like the underdog of the design world — which is exciting. It allows you to invent things and explore and make history.”

The Perfect Bedtime Story

SoundGirls.org: I, like many of you, hit the “buy” button immediately once Women in Audio by Leslie Gaston-Bird was published. A textbook about us, for us, and most importantly, by us! Reading a textbook has never been this empowering. Well, given my other SoundGirls articles, it is in good company. SoundGirls has an assortment of them in their lending library.

A Note on Saying Thank You

SoundGirls.org: When I was 16, I was hired for my first front-of-house position. In my new role as “person in charge” I quickly began noticing all of the little obstacles that seemed to appear each night. They had been present before, of course, but never so obvious. The way that bands assumed anyone in the room except me was the sound engineer. The flashes of surprise that crossed their faces upon being pointed my way.

Helly Hansen Luna Collection | New Women's Workwear

PTR: For those of you in the trades who don’t happen to be “man-shaped”, we feel for you. Traditionally, there hasn’t been a whole lot to choose from when it comes to workwear. The Helly Hansen Luna Collection aims to fix that and (literally) has you covered. Designed by women, for women, Helly Hansen has tailored the new softshell jacket, construction pant, and service pant to fit women’s unique needs and physiques.

Beth O’Leary – Baking a Cake on a Moving Tour Bus

SoundGirls.org: Beth O’Leary is a freelance monitor engineer and PA tech based in the U.K. She has been working in the industry for 11 years and is currently working as a stage and PA tech on the Whitney Houston Hologram Tour. She has toured as a system tech with Arcade Fire, J Cole, the Piano Guys, Paul Weller, a tour featuring Roy Orbison as a hologram. She recently filled in as the monitor engineer for Kylie Minogue and just finished a short run for an AV company in Dubai.

A Manifesto for Staging Gendered Violence

HowlRound Theatre Commons: The performance and staging of gendered violence is a political issue, and not a recent one. Gendered violence can be understood as a spectrum of acts, ranging from physical, sexual, and emotional abuses against marginalized women, to acts that nullify and demean women’s resistance to patriarchy. Women’s resistance takes on a variety of forms, such as anger, joy, care, self-preservation, and protest.