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The Big 5: The Western Stage is brimming with 2010 opportunities
The Western Stage annual SpringFEST offers a smorgasbord of performance opportunities and classes to local actors to expand personal horizons and prepare for the 2010 season by working alongside resident directors and actors.
The Young Company
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Emperor Ben Nelson to Women: All Your Uterus Are Belong to Me
Scarecrow, so what’s the deal now on conference cmte. Will there be a conference?
Depends on what you define as a “conference.” Looks like Emperor Ben wants binding instructurions to Senate conferees not to tamper with his amendments — but we’re just
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Eve Ensler's Report From The Congo
Since the beginning of my blog, I have attempted over and over to make my readers more aware of the horrific conditions in the Eastern sectors of the Congo. Over five million people have died in the civil war, 75% of the women have been raped and
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Headlines for December 28, 2009
Iranian security forces have arrested several prominent critics of the government one day after Iranian forces killed as many as twelve people taking part in anti-government protests. The dead included the nephew of defeated presidential candidate Mir
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Eve Ensler: The Four Months Since Hillary
I have been in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo for the month of December. Christmas at Panzi Hospital was overflowing with raped and tortured women. Many young girls, several under 14, carrying babies. Every day at least 13 new women arrive
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Rachel Axler Makes Her Off B'way Playwriting Debut In SMUDGE, Opens 1/11/2010
Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Rachel Axler will make her off Broadway playwriting debut at the NEA-rejected Women's Project with Smudge, a dark comedy directed by Pam MacKinnon about the changing face of the American family and the limits
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LIFESTYLE: Vision board brings Niagara Wellness to life
When Mindy Scime was dreaming of creating a holistic wellness center in a vacant building on Main Street, she pinned a big picture of the building on her vision board.
The board was the spot where she kept clippings, photos other colorful things that
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Viewpoints: Ellen Goodman blazed trails in the thicket of op-ed writers
I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates.
I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns.
Goodman, whose prose has graced newspaper pages for more than four decades, allegedly wrote her
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Goodman blazed the trail for women columnists
I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates.
I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns.
Goodman, whose prose has graced newspaper pages for more than four decades, allegedly wrote
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To Ellen with love
I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than “Misery’s” Kathy Bates.
I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns.
Goodman, whose prose has graced newspaper pages for more than four decades, allegedly wrote her
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To Ellen, with love
I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates.
I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns.
Goodman, whose prose has graced newspaper pages for more than four decades, allegedly wrote
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Kathleen Parker: To Ellen Goodman with love
I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates.
I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns.
Goodman, whose prose has graced newspaper pages for more than four decades, allegedly wrote
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Kathleen Parker: To Ellen Goodman with love
It was, and is, profoundly odd that what freed women from the tyranny of low expectations and limited opportunity was viewed by so many as a "women's movement" rather than a human rights imperative that also relieved men from the burden of manliness.
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Elmo wants a dream job in 'Sesame Street Live'
What do you want to be when you grow up?
It's a big concern for kids -- after deciding which toy to play with or what friend to ask over. And it perplexes Elmo and his pals, too, in the latest rendition of Sesame Street Live -- When Elmo Grows Up --
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'Monologues' speaks truth about violence
Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" is the story of many women you, your sister, your mother, your daughter, your friend.
The stories came from hundreds of interviews Ensler conducted. Its focus, the gritty truth about violence against women and girls,
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Haitian Feminist Leader Myriam Merlet (1953-2010)
We end today’s show with the sad news of the passing of Haitian political activist Myriam Merlet. She died under the rubble of her home after it collapsed on her last week. Myriam Merlet was the Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Women and an
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Women's Movement Mourns Death of 3 Haitian Leaders (CNN)
(CNN) -- One returned to her Haitian roots, to give voice to women, honor their stories and shape their futures.
Another urged women to pack a courtroom in Haiti, where she succeeded in getting a guilty verdict against a man who battered his wife.
A
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BRIDGE GALLERY. Fine art trunk show and sale through Jan. 31. Hours: Thursday through Monday, noon to 6 p.m. 1R Water St., Newburyport. 978-462-2740, www.bridgegallerynewburyport.com.
CARRY OUT CAFE. Wall-hung wooden sculptures by Richard Colburn
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Haiti earthquake claims lives of country's leading feminists
Women's rights activists have paid tribute to three prominent Haitian feminists killed in this month's devastating earthquake.
Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan were among the tens of thousands who died when the quake struck.
They
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V-Day at Westminster
As part of the V-Day 2010 Campaign, Westminster College students will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for the Salt Lake City Rape Recovery Center, a local organization working to end
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Suzanne Skees: A Wise Investment: From the Haitian Earthquake to Schools in Sri Lanka
When those already afflicted by centuries of racism and poverty suffer a natural disaster such as the January 12 Haiti earthquake, we in the United States sit up and take notice as the news coverage runs 24/7 in the immediate aftermath.
We have
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Eve Ensler, Author Of 'Vagina Monologues,' Communicates Stories Of Teenage Girls In New Book
Your new book, "I Am an Emotional Creature," is a collection of 30-plus fictional monologues in which you assume the confiding, often plaintive, voices of teenage girls -- from a Chinese factory worker to a sex slave in Africa to a schoolgirl in
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How one man gave the Congo’s women hope
Why are the lives of African women worthless? It’s a question that Denis
Mukwege asks every day that he works with the raped and mutilated women of
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As a young doctor he treated women in far-flung villages who would
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René Augesen, Carey Perloff, et al. Set for A.C.T.'s Vagina...
Janette Andrawes, René Augesen, Shinelle Azoroh, Beatrice Basso, Stacy Beckley, Elizabeth Brodersen, Ellen Cassidy, Carly Cioffi, Hannah Cohen, Stephanie DeMott, Marisa Duchowny, Christina Elmore, Cindy Goldfield, Caroline Hewitt, Sophia Holman,
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Dawson Tapped to Direct Ensler's 'I Am an Emotional Creature' Benefit, 2/5
Rosario Dawson has agreed to direct a star-studded reading of Eve Ensler's new book, "I Am an Emotional Creature." The reading will take place as a benefit for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The cast for the benefit
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Another Casualty of the Haiti Earthquake: The Women's Movement
Among the many dead after the earthquake in Haiti are the three women who basically constituted the fledgling women’s movement in Haiti. Myriam Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan, and Magalie Marcelin had just begun the work of reforming a judiciary that
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Dawson to direct Ensler reading
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2010-01-31 14:44:03 - Actress Rosario Dawson will direct an all-star reading of feminist author Eve Ensler's new book I Am An Emotional Creature in New York.
Actress Rosario Dawson will direct an all-star reading of feminist
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Dawson to Direct Mozes in Ensler's I Am An Emotional Creature Benefit
Presented in honor of V-Day (which Ensler founded), the 7:30 PM reading will be performed by Samantha Mozes (daughter of Tony-winning actress Cynthia Nixon), as well as girls from the Harvey Milk High School at the Hetrick Martin Institute, the Young
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Girl Power Can Save the World by Eve Ensler (CNN)
Editor's note: Eve Ensler wrote the play "The Vagina Monologues" and founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day has funded more than 11,000 community-based anti-violence programs and launched safe houses in the
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Eve Ensler Performs
We got a very big response – both over the phones and online – so we thought we’d pull out the two readings and offer them here for your listening pleasure (and your reactions).
What do you think? You can listen to the full interview — and see the
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Looking Glass Theatre Announces Spring 2010 Lineup
Looking Glass Theatre proudly announces its exciting Spring 2010 lineup featuring special V-Day New York City 2010 events, a return engagement of its popular children's show Ready, Set, Story! How Katie Saved the Sneaky Spider's Tales, new multimedia
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Dawson Tapped to Direct Ensler's 'I Am an Emotional Creature' Benefit, 2/5
Rosario Dawson has agreed to direct a star-studded reading of Eve Ensler's new book, "I Am an Emotional Creature." The reading will take place as a benefit for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The cast for the benefit
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'Terminator' lives in luxury while peacekeepers look on
The UN mission in Congo is the world's largest peacekeeping operation, costing $1.35bn a year. But instead of putting an end to an epidemic of rape and murder, the force is accused of actively supporting those it was meant to bring to justice
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Do Antidepressants Work?
Audio of this show will be available by 3pm ET.
A bottle of Eli Lilly & Co.'s Prozac is pictured at a company facility in Plainfield, Ind., Jan. 11, 2008.
Prozac versus placebo. New studies say that for many people antidepressants may not work much
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An Inspiring New Book to Read (and Perform!)
Life is an emotional roller coaster happy, mad, sad, intense, quiet but thats because were emotional creatures! Tomorrow, famous playwright Eve Ensler releases I am an Emotional Creature, a new book of monologues to capture the secret lives of girls
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Girls from around the globe speak out
I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World. Eve Ensler. Villard. 150 pages. $20. In this series of monologues, Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues , imagines the voices of teenage girls from around the world. ``As a
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Brilliant: 'Vagina Monologues' Creator Tells Palin to Look at 'Earthquakes and Tsunamis' for Global Warming Proof
No matter what former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does, she's not going to win any friends in the mainstream modern feminism activist movement in the United States. But that might not be a bad thing.
"Back with me is a woman who has done more for the
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Fox News Poll Concludes Tea Partiers Are Racist, Conspiracy Theorists
Let’s just first qualify this by stating that online polls, for any variety of reasons, are not necessarily reliable. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to note this FOXNews.com poll, in which nearly 160,000 people (ostensibly) participated. The poll asks
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Gabourey Sidibe Has an Oscar Date But Its Not Justin Timberlake
With a hit movie and an Oscar nomination for Precious under her belt, Gabourey Sidibe’s dreams are coming true. But there’s one thing she hasn’t gotten: Her dream date.
Sidibe had previously sent out a half-joking public plea to Justin Timberlake to be
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`Vagina Monologues' returns with message of hope, help to women's groups
On Valentine's Day, about a dozen East Bay women led by a young Montclair native will be speaking, shouting and moaning from the heart about liberating an equally vital part of themselves.
Jamie Sharp, 22, will direct several generations of women in a
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The Vagina Monologues Chick Speaks Out of Her Backside Regarding Palin
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'Vagina Monologues' sparks discussion with ending
Three questions at the end of this year’s performances of The Vagina Monologues have sparked dialogue among Penn students.
Last Friday and Saturday nights in Irvine Auditorium, as the show ended, the V-Day Board — which organizes the performance piece
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Eve Ensler
Audio currently not available for this program.
"Vagina Monologues" author Eve Ensler joins us
in studio to talk about her newest work, "I Am an
Emotional Creature." The playwright, author and
activist says her new book is made up of
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Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson
We look at Haiti’s children, and how the young, the orphaned, the most vulnerable, are doing in the long struggle to recover.
Unemployment is virtually non-existent for upper-income Americans. At the lower rungs, it’s at Great Depression levels, with
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Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' is emotional read
Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows she's all about girl power.
Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues," which over the years has featured well-known actresses reading monologues about sexuality. The tone of the play ranges
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Ensler's `Emotional Creature' is an emotional read
"I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World" (Villard, 176 pages, $20), by Eve Ensler: Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows she is all about girl power.
Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues,"
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Monologues for a younger generation
Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows she's all about girl power. Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues," which over the years has featured actresses reading monologues about sexuality. The tone of the play ranges from funny
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Eve Ensler wants girls to show emotion
Young women of all types speak in fictional vignettes
Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows she's all about girl power.
Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues, which over the years has featured well-known actresses
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Ohio Theatre to close August 31, 2010
The Ohio Theatre, a pillar of New York's downtown theatre scene for 29 years, will close on August 31, 2010. The new landlord has issued official notice and no further negotiations are scheduled.
Located at 66 Wooster Street, The Ohio Theatre was one
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Review: Hormonal Housewives, The Festival Theatre
CINEMAS are reporting an Xbox phenomenon. Where once a couple would go out to the cinema of an evening, young men are now increasingly staying home to play computer games while their girlfriends are at the movies with their pals. Hence the sharp rise
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PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 20-26: Out of the Park
Another new Off-Broadway comedy, meanwhile, didn't fare as well. The world of gossip was scrutinized in the world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, which opened Feb. 22 at Second Stage Theater. Tony Award winners John Lithgow and
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EMCC to host readings of 'The Vagina Monologues'
Carissa Pool, Estrella Mountain Community College media relations coordinator, submitted this article.
There will be events and activities on campus to call attention to women's issues and how everyone can be a catalyst for change in the way women are
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Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 28
1915 Birthday of comedian Zero Mostel (1915-1977) star of Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rhinoceros and the original movie version of The Producers.
1894 Birthday of playwright Ben Hecht (1894-1964) , author or
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Vagina Monologues and W-O-M-E-N
KATHMANDU, March 1: In V-day ´V´ stands for Valentine, Victory and Vagina. V-day is a renowned global movement to stop violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sexual slavery.
To support this
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3/5-7: 'Vagina Monologues' opens up dialogue at V-Day performances
Actions may speak louder than words, but for the people who perform "The Vagina Monologues" during V-Day, an international movement aimed at ending violence against women, actions start with words.
"The power of words is that they open up a safe space
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Who’s a Pretty Burlesque Princess Now
I wrote this for AO (Adults Only) Magazine in mid-October last year, for Issue 3 that was meant to come out…now. I haven’t heard anything beyond “yes we got it”, and since some people have asked, I figure I’ll post my original article here. There weren’
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Bestselling books the week of 3/4/10, according to IndieBound*
A look at what's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
2. The Man From Beijing, by Henning Mankell, Knopf
3. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf
4. Split Image, by Robert B. Parker, Putnam
5. The Postmistress, by
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'I Am an Emotional Creature': Eve Ensler's monologues evoke girl power
Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows she's all about girl power.
Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues," which over the years has featured well-known actresses reading monologues about sexuality. The tone of the play ranges
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Livermore's Women Helping Women Month will feature 'V-tinis' and more
owned by women, said Rachel Snedecor, executive director of Livermore Downtown Inc.
LIVERMORE — If you're not a friend to women, you're not a friend to downtown Livermore.
Next month has been designated Women Helping Women Month in the downtown area —
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Satire: The New York Times Bestseller List, Week of March 7
From paperbacks to a waste of paper, hardcovers to hard-to-believe-it-was-even-published, and non-fiction full of fictitiousness to fiction that’s real in somebody’s world, the bestseller list has them all! Sometimes you just have to read between the
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Pat Craig: East Bay playwright premieres 'Family Makespeace' at Diablo Actors Ensemble in Walnut Creek
at 8 at Walnut Creek's Diablo Actors Ensemble Theatre, has taken a winding road to the stage.
From "Pippin" to "Pinafore," there is a large group of musical comedies out there that fans love to sing along to. You can hear them mumbling lyrics and
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Private Parts
Is your vagina depressed? If she could talk, what would she say? Would she be angry? Insecure? The patron saint of female anatomy, Eve Ensler, set out to find the answer with Vagina Monologues, a controversial yet quasiliberating episodic play. It drew
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News from Lamorinda -- March 12
Not only is the Moraga-Orinda Fire District board of directors looking for a fifth member, they're also looking for residents to serve on an advisory board that will help appoint that new member.
The district is seeking to replace Pete Wilson, who
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Chandler Center for the Arts presents 1-woman show
The Chandler Center for the Arts presents the one-woman show "Now That She's Gone," written and performed by Ellen Snortland. Today's showtimes are 2 and 7:30 p.m. at the center's Hal Bogle Theater. Tickets are $20, $26 and $32.
The show is inspired
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WENDY J. MURPHY: Hurtful words alone are not problem
Social prohibitions on the use of the word “retarded” are – um – retarded.
Bear with me for a minute. I’m a huge advocate for the underdog – so much so I’d criminalize all behavior that allows the cunning to exploit the weak if I had the power.
And
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Anti-rape funds in Congo wasted, critics say
I n her long battle against Congo's frightening epidemic of sexual violence, Justine Masika Bihamba has paid a heavy price. Her children have been repeatedly attacked, and one of her daughters was sexually assaulted by a gang of soldiers who broke into
