Disney Channel launches a new screenwriting program.
Hey, Broadway! Why weren’t any woman-written Broadway plays produced this season?
Interview with Belle director Amma Asante (video) and Q&A with star GuGu Mbatha-Raw.
Women (literally) rule at this year’s Cannes film festival.
Fifteen of Time magazine’s “Top 100” are women in the arts.
Happy 10th Anniversary, Mean Girls. #StopTryingToMakeFetchHappen
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