Sunday, August 10, 2014
By Polly Carl. I’m not sure the “I’m so busy” problem is unique to theater, but I personally find it a maddening part of institutional theater culture. Everyone is simply too busy to…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:09AMSaturday, August 9, 2014
By Greg Redlawsk. “Paying your dues”—it’s a pervasive refrain, and one that clearly lives deeply within us; it has gotten under our skin and through our veins. I can’t help but thi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:24PMBy Lauren Gunderson. The Playwrights, Rewrites, Multiple Productions Series is a weekly series of interviews examining the process of developing a new play through a National New Play Networ…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:54AMFriday, August 8, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. Consider Richmond's orations to his soldiers in Richard III, Act V, Scenes 3 and 5, and how they bear a striking resemblance to presidential speeches delivered over the l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:15PMBy Chantal Rodriguez, Jose Luis Valenzuela. The Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC) in downtown Los Angeles is looking for ten arts leaders of various backgrounds who represent the future lead…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:37PMThursday, August 7, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. The man in the penguin suit hands me the postcard advertising his fringe show and makes exactly the right pitch—I’m sold. His is one of those I have decided to see o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PMBy Noe Montez. Pre-conference attendees made their way to Scottsdale, Arizona via bus, through a carefully planned route that covered important sites connected to SB 1070, labor history, and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:32PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
By Hayley Finn, Aditi Kapil, Jack Reuler. Hayley Finn talks with Aditi Kapil, Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Mixed Blood Theater, and Jack Reuler, Mixed Blood’s Artistic Director, to di…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:39PMBy Café Onda. To understand the deep impact Latina/o artists have had in our collective history, it is crucial to discuss the varied artistic expressions that exist within the polycultural …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:13PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
By Martha Steketee. We rise and thrive together, or we all sink. So finding those people who you trust to tell you the truth even if it’s ugly, those people that you can call even when you…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:52PMMonday, August 4, 2014
By Anne Towns. This season, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre will present a twentieth anniversary production of "Blues for an Alabama Sky" by playwright in residence Pearl Cleage. The Alliance p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:23PMBy HowlRound TV. You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:03PMSunday, August 3, 2014
By Carmen Morgan. Much is happening in the arts community today—and with black theaters, even more so. Black theaters continue to question their relevancy amidst changing demographics that…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMSaturday, August 2, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The National Black Theatre will broadcast their Public Summit, Is Black Theatre Sustainable?: From Sustainability to Collectivity, on Thursday, August 7th at 7-8:30pm EST li…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMBy Nancy Garcia Loza. The ALTA Unified General Auditions reminded us, and the theater community at large, of the breadth of Latina/o theater talent that is multiplying and thriving in our be…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, August 1, 2014
By David Dower. Today I talk with three people involved in the Catalyst gathering at the National Black Theatre: Jonathan McCrory, Sade Lithcott, and Deadria Harrington. Evolving out of a se…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:03PMThursday, July 31, 2014
By Patricia Davis. The festival at Roundhouse unfolded as a kind of discourse on life in metro DC. Artistic director Dominic D’Andrea, who founded the OMPF in New York, noted as he introdu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMBy Catherine Trieschmann. Nothing stirs my blood quite like the soft knock of toe shoes on a wood floor during a piqué. And so I admit, I may have exhibited a little too much enthusiasm whe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:34AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company present The Second Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:13PMBy Emilie Whelan. The DISTILLERY is a creative residency for mid-career New Orleans-based performing artists to utilize while they are crafting a new performance. The DISTILLERY values local…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:20AMTuesday, July 29, 2014
By Pardis Mahdavi. I had become exhausted from fighting the trafficking fights... The result has been policies that do more harm than good, and wide scale media misrepresentations of the pro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PMMonday, July 28, 2014
By Morgan Greene. In About Face Youth Theatre’s rehearsal space, there is a cluster of post-it notes on the wall titled “Where I Started.” The ensemble’s first impressions range from…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:59PMBy HowlRound TV. You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMSunday, July 27, 2014
By Josh Sobel. The onus is on the artist to create an atmosphere and scenario for an audience to be open to an interactive experience, and to understand the techniques and considerations nec…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
By Kate Kremer. There is a prevailing sense that the millennial avant-garde is not creating political, activist theater to the same extent as the avant-garde of the ’60s and ’70s. I don�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, July 25, 2014
By Chiori Miyagawa. I have been terrified to even put down the word 幽玄. I had to ask Google to write these characters for me. According to Google Translate, yugen means “subtle and pro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMBy Stephan Wolfert. Our modern military and Shakespeare's plays are both infused with honor—a powerful tool in recruiting and building camaraderie. But what exactly is honor?
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThursday, July 24, 2014
By David Bollier. The three-year occupation of Teatro Valle in Rome is now legendary: a spontaneous response to the failures of conventional government in supporting a venerated public theat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:25PMBy Allison Vanouse. Connecting experimental drama, drag, the claimed ancestry of the French symbolists, Pride week in Boston’s South End: none of this was coincidental or exploitative mark…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:57PMBy Maya Malan-Gonzalez. As part of the Café Onda soft launch this summer, we asked five authors from different places in the generational map, at different stages of their career, to open t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:30AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
By Idris Goodwin. Is a successful jukebox musical featuring rap music possible? I think it’s inevitable, but not without a certain amount of consideration towards rap’s unique and specif…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM 
