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Resources, articles and studies on gender parity in the theatre industry.
6/16/20, Chicago Reader, "Beyond the Canon Highlights BIPOC playwrights"
5/4/20, Playbill.com, "Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"
5/6/2020, HowlRound, "Expanding Where, Why, How, and With Whom Artists in the United States Work"
4/6/20, American Theatre Magazine, "We Will Gather Again, Because We Have To"
4/25/19, NY Times "How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater"
4/19/19, Respect Ability "Physical Disabilities Take the Rare Spotlight on Broadway"
1/8/19, NY Times, "Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Purchase Drama Book Shop"
6/22/17, NY Times, "Indecent to Remain Open on Broadway Despite Closing Notice"
6/30/17, "Actors With Disabilities Are Ready, Willing and Able to Take More Roles"
9/17/16, NY Times "Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright of a Desperate Generation, Dies at 88"
6/23/14, Broadway World "Dramatist Guild Releases Statement on Making Unauthorized Revisions"
8/17/12, NY Times "When Playwrights Take Center Stage"
1/15/11, NY Times "Romulus Linney, Wide-Ranging Playwright, Dies at 80"
1/13/11, NY Times "Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91"
12/18/10, NY Times "New York Flop Becomes Hit Everywhere Else"
11/15/10, NY Times "A Do-Over For the Wasserstein Playwriting Prize"
3/25/10, NY Times "Policy Change to Benefit Playwrights"
1/14/10, NY Times "Playwrights’ Nurturing Is the Focus of a Study"
1/09/10, Wall Street Journal "America's Favorite Plays"
6/6/09, NY Times "Submitting to a Play’s Spell, Without the Stage"
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