Is this really news?

the NYT just published an "article" titled "Forget the Ingenues; Cue the Grown-Ups", which is about the abundance of women of a certain age (over 40) on Broadway. It was a nice excuse to feature this photo (which is missing Jane Fonda because...?):

but is it really news? The Diva has ALWAYs fueled Freudian mommy complexes (hate to take it there, but it's true). What makes anyone think this wasn't the case last year, or for the past decade? Let's look at the past decade of winners (in both categories) and their ages the year they won. (*)Indicates winner played a matriarch of some sort. Mind you this list is just the WINNERS, not the nominees (which the article is ostensibly about).

Best Actress in a Play

2008 Deanna Dunagan*, aged 68

2007 Julie White, aged 46

2006 Cynthia Nixon*, aged 40

2005 Cherry Jones, aged 49

2004 Phylicia Rashad*, aged 56

2003 Vanessa Redgrave*, aged 66

2002 Lindsay Duncan, aged 52

2001 Mary-Louise Parker, aged 37

2000 Jennifer Ehle, aged 31
1999 Judi Dench*, aged 65

Best Actress in a Musical
2008 Patti LuPone*, aged 59
2007 Christine Ebersole*, aged 54 Christine is only a mother in Act 1, but I DIDN'T count Cherry Jones as a mother for DOUBT, so I feel like it's fair...enough
2006 LaChanze*, aged 45
2005 Victoria Clark*, aged 46
2004 Idina Menzel, aged 33 (but Tonya Pinkins* was 42)
2003 Marissa Jaret Winokur, aged 30 (which is twice as old as the character she played. also, Harvey Firestein* was 51)
2002 Sutton Foster, aged 27
2001 Christine Ebersole, aged 48
2000 Heather Headley, aged 26
1999 Bernadette Peters, aged 51

Since 1999, there have only been 2 actresses UNDER 40 to win a Tony for "Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play", though the musical counterpoint has yielded 4 in the same time frame (though the young'uns were all prior to 2005). So it seems like the Ingenues have done been forgotten.