On Gender Parity in Theater and What May Be Broken
This year I bought an anthology of Contemporary Plays by Women: Outstanding Winners and Runners up (1978-1990) for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (prize deadline was September 15th). In its preface, Editor Emilie S. Gilgore wrote what is now a damning statistic: "We got in touch with Lillian Hellman and asked her to join us [...]