Danai Gurira Shines Light on African Patriarchy by Sydney Roberts In dark political times, Danai Gurira's  "Eclipsed," a wartime herstory from Liberia about five women, brings to light to…
Set in a women's prison, this production is the third and last installment of the director Phyllida Lloyd's series of Shakespeare plays for Donmar Warehouse.
The Liverpudlian folk-singer has written the drama she always wanted to write, drawing upon her grandfather's shocking experiences of war at seaOver the past 10 years, Lizzie Nunnery has pur…
France: Story of a Childhood is half personal essay, half autobiographical novel.
Lauren Samuels became a household name thanks to BBC reality show Over the Rainbow, and has since had starring roles in Bend It Like Beckham, Grease and We Will Rock You in the West End and …
A woman lies naked on a vast stage. She flexes and writhes, muscles stressed under the light. The woman staggers to her feet, an elk calf dazed and astonished by the world. Around her, cloth…
Original Cast, 1988 (RCA) Conceived and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! is the "little musical that could." Despite considerable financial hardship in moving the show to production, it…
Olivier theatre, London George Farquhar's comedy plays its Restoration feminist cards with a generous heart in an exhilarating Simon Godwin production Continue reading...
A bilingual libretto - what a fine and clever idea. But no amount of clever ideas can make up for a lack of chemistry between the star-crossed lovers.
For 30 years Pan Asian Repertory Theater has helped Asian-American actors branch out.
Every day Nellie McKay wonders why she's in the music business-but she definitely is
Stephen J. Bottoms's Playing Underground
'The Island' casts a spell of triumph over the brutal history of South Africa's apartheid.
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's possible that some aspects of women's liberation weren't really so liberating, after all, as Wendy Wasserstein dared to suggest in her 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning p…
Carol Giardina, the co-founders of Gainesville Women’s Liberation, the first female liberation group in the South, is one of the many women featured in the special interest documen…
Tristana is Ibsen's Doll's House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
This Saturday only, an exciting day-long program, Luxury and Liberation: Art and Revolution in 18th-Century France, grants you the opportunity to immerse yourself in French extravagance and …
Jacksons Lane, LondonThis plucky experiment in theatrical form, inspired by an early Tennessee Williams play, brings together a multiplicity of distinctive voices Continue reading...
As two plays set amid the 1960s gay rights movement open in London, their co-writers Jon Bradfield and Thomas Hescott discuss charting gay life before their time and why theatre is a good pl…
By Ebony Noelle Golden. I direct The Ballad of Zimmerman for this production. Ballad is a difficult piece that asks viewers to step inside the mind of George Zimmerman, as he reveals his tho…
The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emanc…