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Dispatches from LALA Land: On the Fringes of Hollywood
Originally posted at HowlRound. This year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival–only the fourth in it’s history–featured 212 separate productions in 50 different spaces for a total of more than 1,000 performances. They took in $258,000, all of which went directly back to the individual productions. For a city not known for its theater, that’s no small beans.…
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Comic Con 2013: The Women’s Geekiverse
Originally posted at Ms. I grew up in a time and place where it was all well and good for me to be obsessed with The Chronicles of Narnia, but I was not encouraged to read a comic book. I loved watching Batman (yes, the campy one), Superman (in black and white), The Electric Company…
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The Women of Comic Con: How the Internet Killed the Studio Star
During the lead up to this year’s Comic Con International, a Networked Insights analysis of social media conversation showed that 54% of people talking about the conference were women. So when I arrived on Thursday morning I wasn’t surprised to see that women were everywhere as fans, experts, press, and industry. At panel discussions, in…
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Digging into Gender and Comics at San Diego Comic Con
The stars of Grace Randolph’s superhero comic Supurbia, on its first issue cover. Originally posted at BitchMedia. I came to Comic-Con International this weekend with an eye on gender—how would female fans and comics creators be represented in the convention that draws 150,000 proud nerds to San Diego? Day one alone of the epic convention included three…
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Ellen Page and Toni Collette Are Feminists, But Susan Sarandon Is Not?
Originally posted at Ms. This month has been a mixed one for the F word in Hollywood. Just as Ellen Page and Toni Collette showed us what feminists look like, Susan Sarandon baffled many of her women fans by refusing to claim the term. In an interview with The Guardian, Page put it succinctly: How…
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Dispatches from LALA Land: Adventures in the OC
Originally posted at HowlRound. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was wary of attending the theater. LA is an industry town, and if there’s one thing I’m not interested in, it’s staged screenplays. Don’t get me wrong–I love film. I just don’t want to see it on stage. Because technology allows for far…
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10 Questions for Anti-Choice Legislators
In honor of the great state of Texas moving one step closer to ending access to abortion by passing a law that will close all but 5 women’s health clinics in the state and unconstitutionally prohibit abortions after 20 weeks, I thought I’d bring back a list of questions (originally posted at Ms.) that so-called…
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The Miss Julie Dream Project and Time Machine: The Musical: Not Extended, but Still Winners
The “Best of Fringe Extensions” program has swung into full gear, and, excited for the chance to see some of the shows I missed the first time around, I went to the Hollywood Fringe website looking for a list of shows. I went to the home page, then the blog, then the “about” section. Nothing.…
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Uncurated, Unmediated: Why Fringe Festivals Are Perfect for Solo Shows
The Hollywood Fringe Festival, like most Fringes, is all about freedom of expression. Taking after it’s mother-ship The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Hollywood Fringe mission states that it “is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body.” Perhaps that’s…
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Who Should Play the New Lara Croft?
In the midst of a dark summer for geek girls (sorry USA Today, one lady per movie does not constitute a good summer for women), a ray of light has finally broken through. MGM has announced it plans to reboot The Tomb Raider film franchise, and they’ve hired a female screenwriter: none other than Marti…
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