Angela Lansbury, now 81, has returned to New York and is performing in Terrence McNally’s play "Deuce," which opens next Sunday at the Music Box Theatre. In Sunday’s New York Times, there’s a lovely profile of Lansbury’s life and her work. Of her return to Broadway, four years after the death of her husband/manager, Jesse [...]

The Washington Post has published a terrific multimedia package on feminism and art, and it looks like it will continue to focus a lens on the subject throughout the year. Here’s a list of related exhibitions, books and plays, and a look at some of the content added to the WaPo website so far: What [...]

New Literary Magazine: Writing at Women’s Media Center, Nan Fink Gefen introduces a new online literary magazine by older women, Persimmon Tree. "Older women writers are often at the height of their creative abilities, but for us to appreciate their work, we need to have access to it," writes Gefen. "Our youth-oriented society fails to [...]

In almost every realm of life — politics, business, sports, etc. — the products of the feminist movement are evident, even if the gains are not always as large as we have hoped. On the small and big screen, however, female roles appear to have regressed rather than progressed. While this point is certainly debatable, [...]

by Patricia Yarberry Allen Germaine Greer has hit a homerun with her take on "Menopause the Musical," published this week at The Guardian (and on the arts blog). Greer is absolutely right that the musical — which has been playing to U.S. audience since 2001 and has now crossed the Atlantic — promotes outdated concepts [...]

Joe Sharkey last week wrote in The New York Times that he thought American Airlines "had a good idea there" with the launch of a website "just for its female travelers, www.AA.com/women." But the lavender-designed site — which is now a more gender-neutral industry blue — struck a nerve with savvy women travelers. Juile Pfeffer [...]

by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard I worked toward a Ph.D. rather than a "Mrs." long before the women’s movement, and I have both my mother and grandmother to thank. They came from more traditional societies, yet circumstances propelled them into situations that required flexibility, courage and creativity — and they expected as much from me. My [...]

The Women’s Media Center today published a lively conversation between columnist and author Anna Quindlen and author Robin Morgan, one of the founders of WMC. Here’s the start of it: Robin Morgan: Anna Quindlen and I have known each other on and off for too long, even though years go by when we don’t actually [...]

New York’s Own "Living Landmark": "Raise a Chianti bottle and a salami to the lovely Rosa Castaldi, Manhattan’s own Kitty Carlisle Hart, who helped make ‘A Night at the Opera’ watchable, all the way through," writes Lawrence Downes in this New York Times appreciation of Kitty Carlisle Hart, who died last week at age 96. [...]

A number of small and independent magazines have been advising readers of a proposed postal rate increase. The increase burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies. If you want to stand up for independent media — which often gives women more of a voice — you [...]