Tuesday, June 18, 2013
On May 11th, 2013, I watched a Direct TV salesman perform a slam poem about human cannonballs. The Empty Space Theatre—a black box on the Arizona State University campus—was decorated wi…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:08PMCity Theatre in Miami, Florida hosts CityWrights 2013 —A Conference for Playwrights—which will be livestreaming on HowlRound TV Thursday, June 20 to Saturday, June 22. To participate in …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:56PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. …
Linked From HowlRound at 09:05AMMonday, June 17, 2013
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:11PMSunday, June 16, 2013
Change is hard for many people, most often because we fear the unknown. What will happen if I change? Suppose things don’t get better? It’s easy to get stuck doing the same behavior over…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:41PMWhen I set out to produce Juliet & Romeo , a queered adaptation of Romeo & Juliet featuring two women as the star-crossed lovers, I knew that I wanted to focus on three themes—home…
Linked From HowlRound at 12:55PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
With the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ (NET) MicroFest Honolulu about to begin on O‘ahu, I sat down with Kumu Hula (hula teacher) Vicky Holt Takamine to talk about hula, the Hawaiian lan…
Linked From HowlRound at 12:38PMFriday, June 14, 2013
The One-Minute Play Festival & Victory Gardens Theater present The Third Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Tuesday, June 18 at 5:30pm PDT (San Fran…
Linked From HowlRound at 04:56PMI never think about what I do. I never plan or plot or even think about looking at the big picture. When Eric of Honolulu Theatre for Youth asked me how I manage to balance the seemingly dis…
Linked From HowlRound at 03:07PMJust as HowlRound was finishing up its tweet chat on " Making a Career, Making a Living in the Arts ," the news broke that a judge for the Southern District of New York ruled that Fox Search…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:04PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents "From the Dirty War and Beyond" —a conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona and Jorge Onofri livestreaming on HowlR…
Linked From HowlRound at 06:32PMOne of the greatest things about living in Hawaii is its cultural diversity. The unique cultural make up of our islands provides a spectacular melting pot of colors for our ethnic canvas. Ea…
Linked From HowlRound at 04:52PMOn a recent May night, on two stages in Washington, DC, two separate demigod kings suffered and grew wise. At Constellation Theater , Gilgamesh fluttered the sleeves of his royal raiment and…
Linked From HowlRound at 04:52PMArena Stage in Washington, DC presents a work-in-progess performance of force/collision's Trust Me which will livestream on HowlRound TV Sunday, June 16 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7pm CDT …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:19PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Hawaii is not a big state, about 1.4 million people, fortieth in population although thirteenth in density. Two-thirds of the state’s population lives on Oahu and the city and county of Ho…
Linked From HowlRound at 04:57PMNational Review ’s roving correspondent Kevin Williamson made himself a folk hero of the Twittersphere when, at a recent performance of the new musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet…
Linked From HowlRound at 12:43PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Working Theater is a NYC theater company, now in its twenty-eighth year. Its mission is to create theater for and about the working majority. In 2010, during its twenty-fifth Anniversary Sea…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:25PMIn the Aurora Theatre’s promo video about The Arsonists , by Max Frisch, director Mark Jackson explains the choice to set the play not in Frisch’s postwar Germany but in a world seemingl…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:25PMNetwork of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Honolulu National Summit and Learning Exchange livestreaming on HowlRound TV . Sunrise and sunset performances, graffiti artists, pre-sch…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:02PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:35PMMonday, June 10, 2013
Beyond the Capitals, a project of the Center for International Theater Development , aims to create meaningful encounters between new generations of theater animators in Russia and the Unite…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:11PMThe Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…
Linked From HowlRound at 03:07PMSunday, June 9, 2013
Considering the capacities of theater for spatial play, does the adherence to linearity formatting…limit more than just playwriting poetics and innovation? What are the broader implication…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:32PMThe One-Minute Play Festival & Actor’s Express present The Second Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Tuesday June 11 at 5pm PDT (Los Angeles), 7pm…
Linked From HowlRound at 10:30AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
Can we be in two places simultaneously? Can we alter what is real with what is fiction? Can we abandon ourselves and yet be fully in control? And what does theater have to do with any of thi…
Linked From HowlRound at 12:26PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Carlos Murrillo: My education in theater was pretty scattershot. I studied acting as an undergrad at Syracuse, dropped out after less tha…
Linked From HowlRound at 06:20PMThis is a condensed version of the introductory essay from a new report called The Arts Diversity Index that was commissioned by Theatre Bay Area with funds from the California Arts Council …
Linked From HowlRound at 09:06AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Brooke Berman: Maria Irene Fornes, Marsha Norman, Anne Bogart, Tina Shepard, and Chris Durang. Irene and Marsha were the two biggies thou…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:56PMWe shouldn't be surprised that Walt Disney has something up his sleeve. He is a showman, after all, and a showman always keeps something clever in reserve. So when Walt—moustachioed, imper…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:18PMA Conversation With Luis Valdez, Founding Artistic Director Of El Teatro Campesino . This event will be livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7pm CDT (…
Linked From HowlRound at 10:46AMEstablishing Latino Theater Alliances within Texas and Across the Nation Watch this meeting live on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 2pm-4:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4pm-6:30pm CDT (Chicago…
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