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Theatre, Celeb Journalism, And Journalism

April 22, 2009 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Two articles over on the ARTicles blog at the National Arts Journalism Program. First, Laura Collins-Hughes has a take on this year’s Pulitzer for theatre and why it’s important that the finalists are all women: …women playwrights are vastly underrepresented on our stages. Because “diversity” isn’t just a buzzword. The Pulitzer isn’t important in itself; […]

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