ANNUAL GOOD NEWS LIST please do buy tickets to shows at these theatres GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR PRESENT THE 2010/2011 GOOD NEWS LIST These theatres are producing more than 50% plays written by women on their main stages during the 2010/11 season. Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY Arena Stage, Washington, DC New Georges, New York, NY Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL South Coast Repertory Theater, Costa Mesa, CA Rattlestick Theatre, New York, NY Soho Rep, New York, NY AirMid Theatre Company, Long Island, NY Women’s Project, New York, NY Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA Arizona Women’s Theater Company, Scottsdale, AZ Brava! For Women in the Arts, San Francisco, CA Looking For Lillith, Louisville, KY Playwright’s Theater, Madison, NJ Voices and Vision, New York, NY Detroit Repertory Theater, Detroit, MI Orlanda Repertory Theater, Orlando, FL Acadia Repertory Theater, Mt. Desert, ME Acrosstown Repertory Theater, Gainesville, FL Panasian Repertory Theater, New York, NY Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater, New York, NY Alley Repertory Theater, Garden City, ID Actors’ Repertory Theater of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 13th St Repertory Company, New York, NY Geffen Playhouse, Los AngelesNew Jersey Repertory Theater, Long Branch, New Jersey Anchorage Community Theatre, Anchorage, AL Spirit of Broadway Theater, Norwich, CT Hawaii Repertory Theater, Honolulu, HI Manoa Valley Theater, Honolulu, HI Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea, MA George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ Electric City Playhouse, Anderson, SC Tennessee Women’s Theater Project, Nashville, TN Broadhollow Theatre Company, Bethpage, NY Star Playhouse, Commack, NY Cortland Repertory Theater, Cortland, NY Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY Astoria Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY Theatre Arlington, Arlington, TX Zach Theatre, Austin, TX Rover Dramawerks, Piano, TX Echo Theatre, Dallas, TX Harbour Playhouse, Dickinson, TX Amphibian Productions, Fort Worth, TX Main Street Theater, Houston, TX The Parish Players, Thetford, VT Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bloomington, IN Carmel Players, Carmel, IN Phoenix Theater, Indianapolis, IN Theatre on the Square, Indianapolis, IN Kokomo Civic Theatre, Kokomo, IN Tipton Community Theatre, Tipton, IN The Heritage Players, Bethel Park, PA Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg, PA Enchantment Theatre Company, Glenside, PA Native Voices at the Autry, Los Angeles, CA Halcyon Theater, Chicago, IL Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, IL Red Tape Theater, Chicago, IL Rivendell Theater, Chicago, IL Sideshow Theater, Chicago, IL Teatro Vista, Chicago, IL Prologue Theatre Co, Chicago, IL Factory Theater, Chicago, IL The Strangetree Group, Chicago, IL MORE GOOD NEWS CHICAGO: Check out Chicago Storefront Summit's Gender Equity Task Force’s report of gender equity in Chicago Theatre here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28807513/CSfS-Gender-Task-Force-Analysis-March-2010 LOS ANGELES Check out the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative here: http://lafpi.com/

ANNUAL GOOD NEWS LIST

please do buy tickets to shows at these theatres

GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR PRESENT

THE 2010/2011 GOOD NEWS LIST

These theatres are producing more than 50% plays written by women

on their main stages during the 2010/11 season.

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Arena Stage, Washington, DC

New Georges, New York, NY

Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL

South Coast Repertory Theater, Costa Mesa, CA

Rattlestick Theatre, New York, NY

Soho Rep, New York, NY

AirMid Theatre Company, Long Island, NY

Women’s Project, New York, NY

Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA

Arizona Women’s Theater Company, Scottsdale, AZ

Brava! For Women in the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Looking For Lillith, Louisville, KY

Playwright’s Theater, Madison, NJ

Voices and Vision, New York, NY

Detroit Repertory Theater, Detroit, MI

Orlanda Repertory Theater, Orlando, FL

Acadia Repertory Theater, Mt. Desert, ME

Acrosstown Repertory Theater, Gainesville, FL

Panasian Repertory Theater, New York, NY

Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater, New York, NY

Alley Repertory Theater, Garden City, ID

Actors’ Repertory Theater of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID

13th St Repertory Company, New York, NY

Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles

New Jersey Repertory Theater, Long Branch, New Jersey

Anchorage Community Theatre, Anchorage, AL

Spirit of Broadway Theater, Norwich, CT

Hawaii Repertory Theater, Honolulu, HI

Manoa Valley Theater, Honolulu, HI

Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL

Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea, MA

George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ

Electric City Playhouse, Anderson, SC

Tennessee Women’s Theater Project, Nashville, TN

Broadhollow Theatre Company, Bethpage, NY

Star Playhouse, Commack, NY

Cortland Repertory Theater, Cortland, NY

Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY

Astoria Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY

Theatre Arlington, Arlington, TX

Zach Theatre, Austin, TX

Rover Dramawerks, Piano, TX

Echo Theatre, Dallas, TX

Harbour Playhouse, Dickinson, TX

Amphibian Productions, Fort Worth, TX

Main Street Theater, Houston, TX

The Parish Players, Thetford, VT

Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bloomington, IN

Carmel Players, Carmel, IN

Phoenix Theater, Indianapolis, IN

Theatre on the Square, Indianapolis, IN

Kokomo Civic Theatre, Kokomo, IN

Tipton Community Theatre, Tipton, IN

The Heritage Players, Bethel Park, PA

Little Lake Theatre, Canonsburg, PA

Enchantment Theatre Company, Glenside, PA

Native Voices at the Autry, Los Angeles, CA

Halcyon Theater, Chicago, IL

Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, IL

Red Tape Theater, Chicago, IL

Rivendell Theater, Chicago, IL

Sideshow Theater, Chicago, IL

Teatro Vista, Chicago, IL

Prologue Theatre Co, Chicago, IL

Factory Theater, Chicago, IL

The Strangetree Group, Chicago, IL

MORE GOOD NEWS

CHICAGO:

Check out Chicago Storefront Summit's Gender Equity Task Force’s report of gender equity in Chicago Theatre here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28807513/CSfS-Gender-Task-Force-Analysis-March-2010

LOS ANGELES

Check out the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative here:

http://lafpi.com/

ANNUAL GIRLCOTT LIST - Do not buy a ticket to these theatres

GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR PRESENT

THE 2010/2011 GIRLCOTT LIST

These theatres will not be producing a single play by a woman

on their main stages for the 2010/11 season.

The New Group, New York, NY**

American Folklore Theatre, Fish Creek, WI**

Full Circle Theatre Company, Jersey City, NJ**

Park Players, Birmingham, AL**

Profile Theater Project, Portland, OR**

New Stage Theatre, Jackson, MS**

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL**

A Noise Within Glendale, CA**

Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle, WA**

Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland, OH**

Theater for a New Audience, New York, NY**

American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA**

Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE

Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, FL

Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC*

Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT

Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, CA*

Lincoln Center Theater, New York, NY*

Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY

TheaterWorks, Hartford, CT

Ivoryton Playhouse, Ivoryton, CT

Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI

Signature Theatre Company, New York, NY

American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA

Connecticut Repertory Theater, Storrs, CT

The Repertory Theater of New Britain, New Britain, CT

Book-It Repertory Theater, Seattle, WA

Sierra Repertory Theater, Sonora, CA

Seaside Repertory Theater, Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Telluride Repertory Theater Company, Telluride, CO

Jewish Repertory Theater of Western New York, Buffalo, NY

Coastal Repertory Theater, Half Moon Bay, CA

Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater, Grand Lake, CO

Castaways Repertory Theater, Woodbridge, VA

Jonesborough Repertory Theater, Jonesborough, TN

Texas Repertory Theater, Houston, TX

Stageloft Theater, Sturbridge, MA

SecondStory Repertory, Redmond, WA

Third Rail Repertory Theater, Portland, OR

Repertory Theater of Iowa, Des Moines, IA

California Repertory Company, Long Beach, CA

McKinney Repertory Theater, McKinney, TX

Penguin Rep Theater, Stony Point, NY

Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE

City Theater Company, Wilmington, DE

University Theater of Georgia, Athens, GA

Diamond Head Theater, Honolulu, HI

Boise Contemporary Theater, Boise, ID

Boise Little Theater, Boise, ID

Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MD

Theater in the Round Playhouse, Minneapolis, MD

Rosedale Community Players, Southfield, MI

11:11 Theatre Company, Boston, MA

Whistler in the Dark, Everett, MA

Lofte Community Theater, Manley, NE

The Attic Ensemble, Jersey City, NJ

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater, South Orange, NJ

Theaterwork, Santa Fe, NM

Adobe Theater, Albuquerque, NM

North Carolina Theater, Raleigh, NC

The Clemson Little Theater, Pendleton, SC

Centre Stage, Greenville, SC

Mariemont Players, Cincinnati, OH

Showboat Majestic Theater, Cincinnati, OH

CATCO, Columbus, OH

Licking County Players, Newark, OH

Artist’s Cooperative Theater, Nashville, TN

Community Playhouse, Tullahoma, TN

American Heartland Theater, Kansas City, MO

Hangar Theater, Ithaca, NY

Lucille Ball Theatre, Jamestown, NY

San Angelo Civic Theatre, San Angelo, TX

Vortex Theater, Austin, TX

Beaumont Community Players, Beaumont, TX

Unity Theatre, Brenham, TX

Theatre Three, Dallas, TX

Ennis Public Theatre, Ennis, TX

Kaufman Civic County Theatre, Terrell, TX

Vermont Stage Company, Burlington, VT

Essex Community Players, Essex, VT

Northern Stage Company, White River Junction

Gala Hispanic Theater, Washington, DC*

Jackson County Community Theatre, Brownstown, IN

Sugar Creek Players, Crawford, IN

American Theatre Company, Chicago, IL

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago, IL

Oracle Productions, Chicago, IL **

Organic Theatre, Chicago, IL

Raven Theatre, Chicago, IL **

Remy Bumppo, Chicago, IL **

Signal Ensemble Theater, Chicago, IL

Steep Theatre Company, Chicago, IL

Strawdog Theater, Chicago, IL

The Gift Theater Company, Chicago, IL

The House Theatre, Chicago, IL **

Hypocrites, Chicago, IL **

The Mammals, Chicago, IL

Timeline Theater, Chicago, IL

TUTA Theater, Chicago, IL **

Writers Theatre, Chicago, IL

Clinton County Civic Theatre, Frankfort, IN

Red Barn Theatre, Frankfort, IN

Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, Ft. Wayne, IN

Footlite Musicals, Indianapolis, IN

Mud Creek Players, Indianapolis, IN

Munster Theatre Company, Munster, IN

Richmond Civic Theatre, Richmond, IN

Community Theatre of Terra Haute, Terra Haute, IN

Colonial Playhouse, Aldan, PA

Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA

The Actors’ Net, Bucks County, PA

Totem Pole Playhouse, Fayetteville, PA

Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, PA

Fulton Theatre, Lancaster, PA

Hedgerow Theatre, Media, PA

Bickford Theatre, Morristown, NJ

* indicates no women directors have been hired either

** indicates multiple years on the Girlcott List

Complied by Sabina Friedman-Seitz

NY Times Notable Books of 2010 - 50% are by women.

Someone at the NY Times is paying attention to our rants against end of year "lists" that contain few works by women. On this year's NY Times Notable Books of 2010 almost every other author is a woman. So cheers to the feminist who compiled the list. The entire list can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/100-notable-books-2010.html?pagewanted=2&ref=todayspaper

Here is a sampling of some of the fantastic female authors and their works:

APOLLO’S ANGELS: A History of Ballet. By Jennifer Homans. (Random House, $35.) The question of classical ballet’s very survival lies at the heart of this eloquent, truly definitive history, which traces dance across four centuries of wars and revolutions, both artistic and political.

DOUBLE HAPPINESS: Stories. By Mary-Beth Hughes. (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $14.) Hughes likes to juxtapose her characters’ relative passivity with the knife edge of evil within or, more often, outside them.

LISA ROBERTSON’S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP. By Lisa Robertson. (Coach House, paper, $14.95.) In these intellectual poems, the experimental curtains suddenly part to reveal clear, durable truth.

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. By Rebecca Skloot. (Crown, $26.) Skloot untangles the ethical issues in the case of a woman who unknowingly donated cancer cells that have been the basis for a vast amount of research.

SOMETHING RED. By Jennifer Gilmore. (Scribner, $25.) Gilmore’s contemplative second novel explores the lost ideals and lingering illusions of a family once politically committed to bettering the world.

Ms Magazine Blog on Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

Check out the cool article on us by Kyle Bachan in the Ms. Magazine Blog.

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/02/look-out-its-the-guerrilla-girls-on-tour/

Hey, you never know who might have won the Wasserstein Prize

Thank you for feminisming

In Greece last month one of our workshop participants made a poster that said, simply, Feminisiming. It was a misspelling but I liked all that it implied. Guerrilla Girls On Tour will be taking the next few days off for Thanksgiving. Inspired by the Feministing site we, too, take a moment to give thanks:

Thank you to all the fabulous women we met in Europe last month who inspired us with smart new posters and street theatre. We can’t wait to see you again on the road.

Thank you to Karin Hanta at Middlebury College who made our last tour of 2010 one to remember by assembling such a rocking audience and fantastic student volunteer.

Thanks to Kamy Wicoff of SheWrites.com for summarizing the events surrounding the recent announcement that there will be no Wendy Wasserstein award given out this year because the committee found that all 19 plays nominated were not up to snuff. The emails exchanged with the award’s sponsor, TDF, were enlightening.

Thank you to everyone who put pressure on TDF to reverse their decision and have the Wasserstein committee make another stab at choosing an awardee.

Thank you to the DG women’s initiative for organizing women playwrights into a force to be reckoned with.

Thank you to all Guerrilla Girls On Tour past, present and future, especially Gracie Allen, Josephine Baker, Aphra Behn, Lili Boulanger, Fanny Brice, Coco Chanel, Julia Child, Alice Childress, Cheryl Crawford, Edith Evans, Alexandra Exter, Hallie Flanagan, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances Harper, Edith Head, Laura Keene, Eva Le Gallienne, Edna Lewis, Carole Lombard, Lisa Lopes, Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Sophie Treadwell, Lupe Velez, Ethel Waters and Anna May Wong.

Thank you Yoko Ono for inspiring us to keep on keeping on.

2011 TOUR DATES!

CHECK OUT OUR 2011 TOUR DATES HERE:

http://www.guerrillagirlsontour.com/currenttour.htm

WE WILL BE IN AR, TX, NH, MN, OH, NY AND THE UK!

TIMELINE women's theatre movement -- New York City

1979-89 Women's Committee of Dramatists Guild is organized by Gretchen Cryer

1981 - League of Professional Women in Theater is founded by Julia Miles
www.theatrewomen.org

1989 - Women's Committee of Dramatists Guild stops meeting.

1989- Coalition of Professional Women in Arts & Media is founded. www.nycwam.org

1997 – A group of women request to revive the Dramatists Guild's Women's Committee. Board of DG and then executive Director Richard Garmise deny request.

1998 – The Guerrilla Girls begin addressing discrimination against women in theatre with “In this theatre…” sticker placed in toilet stalls of theatres in NYC that do not include any plays by women in their mainstage seasons.

1998 – Women in Theatre: Mapping the Sources of Power, On the 20th Anniversary of the Women's Project and Productions at The New School with support of Ford Foundation.

2001 – Guerrilla Girls split into three new groups. The theatre girls form Guerrilla Girls On Tour, with a mission to end sexism in theatre. They use the Tony Awards to stage a protest shedding light on sexism in theatre. Mother Jones Magazine covers the protest.

2002 - Release of a study, "Report on the Status of Women: A Limited Engagement?" prepared for the New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program by Susan Jonas and Suzanne Bennett with the assistance of Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

2003-Women Count, a group of concerned dramatists come together and request the Dramatists Guild to revive the Committee for Women. Request is again denied.

-Guerrilla Girls On Tour premiere new play “The Herstory of Women in Theatre” , uncovering the vast contributions women have made to the art form.

2005 – The League of Professional Theatre Women include Guerrilla Girls On Tour in their CUNY-TV show “Dialogues with Notable Women In Theatre. The GGOT’s name the Roundabout Theatre the most sexist theatre company in New York City with a continued record of producing no plays by women and not hiring any female directors.

2007 – Support Women Artists Now (SWAN Day), begins as an annual event by WomenArts.

2008- Playwright Julia Jordan organizes meeting at New Dramatists to discuss gender disparity in theater.

2009 – An ad hoc group of 6 Dramatists Guild members meet and recommend that the Guild take concrete steps to address gender disparity.

– Emily Glassburg Sands unveils the results of her economic study on discrimination against women in theatre at a townhall meeting in new York City.

- An event - "50/50 in 2020: Parity for Theatre Artists," is held by the League, Women's Project, and New Perspectives Theatre.

- Princeton University sponsors a conference "Women in Theatre: Issues for the 21st Century."

- League of Professional Theatre Women create a committee to track stats on women in theater.

–A new group, 50/50 in 2020 is founded by Susan Jonas, Julie Crosby and Melody Brooks to take action on finding solutions re gender disparity in theatre.

– Four members of Dramatists Guild -- Cindy Cooper, Catherine Gropper, Andy Landis, Barbara Masry organize the Dramatists Guild Women’s Initiative.

2010 – Guerrilla Girls On Tour receive the Courage Award for the Arts from Yoko Ono.

Street Theatre - Szeged, Hungary

No comedy allowed at Theatre of Dionysus

Maya Deren, Julia Child and Aphra Behn attempted to don gorilla masks today for a photo shoot at the famous Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Greece. As soon as we began our comedy routine amid the ancient ruins a guard began yelling at us to STOP! Apparently masks, which used to be de rigueur at the centuries old theatre, are now banned for fear of someone making fun of Greek Drama on facebook. There's a tragedy at the Acropolis and it isn't "Electra!"


Guerrilla Girls On Tour! subversive action at Acropolis!


No comedy or gorillas allowed in this theatre.


Athena rolls over in grave.