Zoe Lister-Jones’ latest movie was made with an all-female crew.
“Band Aid,” the Sundance darling, also featured an almost-all-female cast and was “all-female enough that the financiers, a bunch of dudes, were respectfully told from the start they would be barred from visiting.” Get it, girl. (Vulture)
“Come From Away,” Bette Midler, and Andy Karl win at 2017 Drama Desk Awards.
The 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards honored Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, or as emcee and Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie put it, “way the F-Off-Broadway,” on Sunday, June 4. (Backstage)
“Black Girls,” the web series you should be watching, is being developed for HBO.
Writer Fatimah Asghar and director Samantha Bailey have signed a development deal with HBO to create an untitled show based on the series. (Elle)
17 years later, Terry Gilliam has finally finished his passion project.
The director started shooting “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” in 2000 (though his interest in the project began in the 1980s). (New York Times)
What made $223 million in its opening weekend and rhymes with schmonder schwomen?
Tip your boomerang tiara to Patty Jenkins, whose Gal Godot-, Connie Nielsen-, Robin Wright-starring “Wonder Woman” had the highest U.S. opening weekend for a woman director ever. (The Guardian)
Cher is coming to Broadway.
The singer announced (via Twitter, of course) that a musical of her life will come to the Great White Way in 2018. Jason Moore (“Avenue Q,” “Pitch Perfect”) is reportedly directing. (THR)
One of New York City’s last professional rep companies is closing.
After 33 seasons, The Pearl Theatre Company has closed. The performing arts landmark “simply could not outpace the economic reality of operating a mid-size theatre company in Manhattan amid a crowded field of worthy causes.” You will be missed. (The Pearl Theatre Co.)
Allison Tolman is the leading woman everyone needs right now.
Currently starring in ABC’s (truly incredible) “Downward Dog,” Tolman says she was so into the script because it depicted a real woman (“I’m a size 12, I’m easily twice the size of most actresses on television”) who “people want to have sex with her and she's like, a professional. She's a romantic lead, she's the lead in her own story.” (Jezebel)
Pioneering Latina actor Elena Verdugo has died.
Through her role as Consuelo Lopez on “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” Verdugo portrayed one of the first Latina professionals in an American TV series, for which she was “credited with inspiring Hispanic women to strive for greater self-respect.” (New York Times)
This stuntwoman just kicked serious ass—and broke a few world records in the process.
Jessie Graff, stuntwoman and incredible athlete, is the first woman to ever complete Stage 2 in “American Ninja Warrior: USA vs. the World.”