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Discussion | Pioneering Women Producers Foremothers of the American Stage

Monday, May 14, 2012, 2:00 pm

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The day after Mother’s Day, come to this all-day tribute to the foremothers of the American stage. Consider the legacy of 20th century producers—many also actresses, playwrights and directors—who envisioned and created alternatives to the commercial theatre, laying the foundation for what we know as the Off Broadway, non-profit, and regional theatre. So where are they in our histories?

Susan Jonas and Ludovica Villar-Hauser of the League of Professional Theatre Women program a day of symposia on titanic figures like Eva Le Gallienne (who called theatre “an instrument for giving, not a machinery for getting!”), Margo Jones, Susan Glaspell, Lucille Lortel, Cheryl Crawford, Margaret Webster, and Hallie Flanagan. Speakers will include historians Susan Quinn and Wendy Smith, biographers Helen Sheehy and Alexis Greene, and scholars J. Ellen Gainor and Wendy Ann Vierow. Today’s women theatre artists stand on the shoulders of giants.

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