• Julia’s Reading Room

    Julia’s Reading Room was founded by Julia Miles, Gail Kriegel and Maxine Kern as a place for playwrights and directors to hear their work. Julia founded both the League of Professional Theatre Women and The Read More »

  • Baayork Lee: Bring It ON!

    February 18, 2018 Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the Year of the Dog and Baayork Lee blew us all away with her own fireworks at the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History series Monday, Read More »

  • Anita Yavich: Designing a World

    ANITA YAVICH: DESIGNING A WORLD By Anne Phelan Anita Yavich won the Irene Sharaff Young Master Award in 2003, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design in 2006, and a Lucille Lortel Award in Read More »

  • KRISTIN HANGGI: MUSICAL THEATRE’S UNSTOPPABLE MIDWIFE

      KRISTIN HANGGI: MUSICAL THEATRE’S UNSTOPPABLE MIDWIFE By Jillian Walker On a sunny January afternoon, Director Kristin Hanggi spoke to League member Jillian Walker about her creative process, the similarities between developing a musical and Read More »

  • A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA WILCOX

    A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA WILCOX by Catherine Castellani Choreographer Patricia Wilcox spoke to playwright Catherine Castellani for Seen & Heard on her day off from rehearsing the London cast of MOTOWN The Musical, which opened on Read More »

  • Georgia Stitt: Her Need to Tell. . . through Music

    By Frances McGarry, Ph.D. Host/Producer First Online With Fran Her love of literature coupled with a flair for creating her own melodies as a child pianist coalesced into becoming the career choice for composer/lyricist Georgia Read More »

  • Bridge to Change: An Interview with The Interval

    In 2009 Victoria Myers was in Cusi Cram’s class at Primary Stages­­­­­­­­­ when Julia Jordan’s first study came out on gender bias in the American theatre. This study put numbers to something Victoria was dealing Read More »