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New Pro-Choice Generation Has A Stage To Voice Themselves
In a perfect world, women would have control of their bodies.
However, the war on women continues and has rebounded stronger than ever within recent years thanks to the U.S. House and Senate currently “under anti-choice control,” says Jennifer Roberts, co-founder and producer of ReproRights! Theater.
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A Stage Of Our Own
When you open up your Playbill how many plays are actually by women? The sad fact is that there is a dearth of women playwrights’ works being produced by mainstream American Theater Companies.
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New Works Festival Celebrates 5 Years
How would the story have been different if William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlow were women? Would their plays have made it to the stage? Would the world celebrate their works with reiterations of new interpretations of performances? Or would they have been forgotten with time, like Aphra Behn, before Virginia Woolf and feminist scholars resurrected her memory and plays?
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Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”
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Desi Women Storm The Stage At Desi Comedy Festival
This year’s Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest features the most women comics to date in the festival’s three year history.
The festival features 16 women comedians out of the lineup of 50 comedians who are descending upon the Bay Area from all over the world for the two week festival.
The festival kicks-off today (August 11) and runs to August 21 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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LPAC Hosts Night of Celebrities and Comedy at Levity & Justice For All
Tonight a powerhouse of lesbian entertainers are coming out are packing a powerful political punch to this election season at LPAC’s first-ever celebrity comedian gala benefit, Levity & Justice For All, in New York.
Rosie O’Donnell, Lea DeLaria, Kate Clinton, and Cameron Esposito and friends tennis legend Billie Jean King and special musical guest BETTY are headlining the special event, June 16.
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SXSW Gets Queer For Its 30th Year
Art, intellectuals, and technology create a perfect storm for cool confabs, like the wildly popular South by Southwest Festival, which turns 30 this year, and kicked off in Austin, Texas on Friday.
The annual indie festival and conference, taking place March 11-20, attracts upward of 72,000 attendees from around the globe to check out hundreds of musicians, artists, innovative thought leaders, and new technologies.
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Hit The Rails Or The Bay For LGBT Wine Events
This year LGBTQ oenophiles can wine and dine on the rails and on San Francisco Bay with two different inaugural events – the Napa Valley Wine Train’s first-ever Pride Ride and Out in the Vineyard’s first-ever Big Gay Wine Cruise.
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OUTsider Festival Keeps Austin Weird And Innovative
Austin is getting hot and heavy this weekend as queer artists pour into the capital of Texas for its second annual OUTsider Festival and Conference, themed “Sex in Public.”
The four-day festival and conference brings together LGBTQ and ally artists from all artistic disciplines from around the world to talk about their work, projects, and to inspire each other opened last night, but it runs through Sunday, February 21.
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Steamy Night Out At The Theater Valentine’s Day Weekend With ‘Reveal All Fear Nothing’
What if you could act out all of your dirtiest, deepest, sexiest secrets before an entire audience? Sound scary? Sound titillating?
Madison Young is doing just that in her adaptation of famed porn and sex educator Annie Sprinkle’s “Post Porn Modernist” performance piece in her show, “Reveal All Fear Nothing: A Journey in Sex, Love, Porn and Feminism.”
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Napa’s Festival Del Sole Dedicates 2016 Season To Wine Signora Margrit Mondavi
The legendary Margrit Mondavi is cause for celebration which is why the Napa Valley Festival Association is dedicating its Festival del Sole’s 2016 season to the wine signora.
Margrit, 89, the widow of the wine legend Robert Mondavi, is a longtime arts advocate and philanthropist as well as a board member of the festival’s association, according to a news release October 23, 2014 announcing the dedication of the season.
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What If We Didn’t See If/Then?
If/Then is a pensive musical that explores the choices we make, missed opportunities, and perhaps a bit of fate. What if we could see the divergent paths that our lives go on based on a single pivotal or little decision we make and a chance meeting that happens?
Through the musical, audiences get to indulge this philosophical question in the Sliding Doors for the stage exploring two different paths taken by Elizabeth, going by Beth in one life and Liz in another life, played by Tony award-winning Idina Menzel. A complete chick musical with double the processing!
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