An insider's look at a playwright/producer/screenwriter's working weekend in Hollywood. Many parties are involved.
What's it like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend? Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger lets us know.
“It has taken a couple of generations for the belief in women’s competence to really sink in,” notes producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger. “Women of my generation have it . . . women in their sixties. But younger women, the 35-year-olds, they’re absolutely certain. 'Fighter pilot?' they’ll say. 'No problem!'"
The brilliant British filmmaker Lindsey Dryden, deaf in one ear since childhood and threatened with losing her hearing altogether, helps us “hear” the loss, feel the fright, and share the grace of a dancer, a young pianist, and a music critic who are doing the seemingly impossible.
Now we are 6, and our site, "Women's Voices for Change" has broadened its vision beyond its original mission—debunking the universal myths about menopause—to celebrating the power and wisdom of women in the second half of life.
The (pleasant) challenge for 40-year-old director Kirsten Kelly: Mount a play involving 50 brides and 50 flight-suited, helicopter-dangling grooms on the stage of a 60-seat theater.
"Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" is an always-entertaining, often startling, paean to an often irascible, fiercely perfectionistic, always independent, long-lived woman who has no intention of leaving the followspot behind.
Before Halloween is completely steamrollered by the winter holidays, WVFC's own “Grambo” offers some reflections on why you can never be too old (or too dignified) to dress up and have fun.
We went to the charming neighborhood where Mariuccia lived as a child. She hadn’t returned for 70 years. It was very meaningful for her. And a time travel trip for me, too.
None of us has been here before, and it is, without a doubt, a most elegant city. From my window I see the sea and the Casino . . .