Good NY Times article about roles for women 40+ in theatre

Links not working, but that's a wonderful photo.

Wonderful article, with valid points about the lack of worthwhile roles for older women in Hollywood.

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this was definitely an interesting article, but I wish they'd even gone back a few years to talk about, like, Margaret Johnson in Light in the Piazza and the Edies in Grey Gardens as fabulous new roles for women over 40. this is definitely a trend that's getting stronger, though. thank goodness.

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Once again, I have to wonder who writes these articles? Obviously nobody with a sense of theater.

How can an article like this be written and ignore Marian Seldes? Seldes was in the Guiness Book of World Records as being a performer who had performed the most continuous performances in a show (was it 4 years straight?). I think she was 50 at the time. While not currently on Broadway, she is in an off-Broadway show based on some Dorothy Parker writings. I think she's somewhere around 80.

I realize that they feel these articles need to be sexy and describe big names like Sarandon, Lansbury, etc. but the article also ignores the work of many other over-40 actresses.

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