'Hadestown' Director Rachel Chavkin Reminds the TonyAwards That the Lack of Women on Broadway Is 'Not a Pipeline Issue'
She continued,"There are so many women who are ready to go. There are so many artists of color who are ready to go. And we need to see that racial diversity and gender diversity reflected in our critical establishment too. This is not a pipeline issue. It is a failure of imagination by a field whose job is to imagine the way the world could be. So let’s do it.
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