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The Queen of the Cakewalk! Vera Wilson and her trademark toe-posing! The prettiest woman ever charged with murder in Chicago! Industrial pageants and labor plays! Satires and farces! Great moral dramas! Legs!
A celebration of women in every aspect of American theater making. She sings! She dances! She acts! She directs! She produces, and designs costumes, and choreographs, and researches, and writes! Women make American theater!
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, Cheryl Crawford, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Zora Neale Hurston, Judith Malina, Rose McClendon, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill, Geraldine Page, Sarah Ruhl, Irene Sharaff, Maureen Stapleton, Gertrude Stein, Paula Vogel, Aida Overton Walker. Margaret Webster … And many more!