Friday, June 20, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. We as a nation, much like Shakespeare's plays, are brilliant at using camaraderie to: define masculinity, create and dehumanize an enemy, and to motivate our men and wome…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:12PMBy Maggie Sulc. We are building a shared vocabulary that may not ever fit into a dictionary or any static form, but will give us a foundation to work toward into the future. The playwrights …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:52PMBy David Dower. Today I cheated a little bit and just called Marc Kudisch, a great friend who is in the middle of the run of a show we made together. I won't link it here so that it's not a …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:46PMThursday, June 19, 2014
By Martha Steketee. The art of theater director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is enormous and embracing and currently evident in "The Mysteries", a retelling of The York Mystery Cycle at the Flea The…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:08AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
By Megan Reilly. The term “gamification” refers to using game mechanics in non-game situations. Many believe that understanding what draws people to games can be used to draw in audience…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:42AMBy Jean Ann Douglass, Eric John Meyer. There is much that can be done in a truck that cannot be done in a conventional theater—and vice versa. The shows we create for a truck will forever …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:07AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
By Chantal Rodriguez, Jose Luis Valenzuela. The Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC), is proud to announce the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A Nat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:43PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "What's Your Relationship to Your Audience?" and will be moderated by Ian Hylands @8inky—who like all of our moderators, authors, and conten…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:19PMBy Alice Stanley. The director implores in the playbill, “If 'Red Planet Respite' inspires you to investigate what’s happening outside of your major, or your comfort zones, it will be a …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMMonday, June 16, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will livestream the 24th TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders, in San Diego, California June 19-21 on the HowlRound TV network. T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:33PMBy Justin Tyler Lewis. My maturation as a young theater practitioner has nothing to do with finding and knowing the answers. I don’t know them. Trust me. It has everything to do with facin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMBy 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 p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:02PMBy Gwydion Suilebhan. My hope is that for an issue as important as this one, we’ll all extend our collaborative impulses beyond the rehearsal room. (We’re not always so good at that.) In…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:27PMSunday, June 15, 2014
By Robert Kaplowitz. My Tony Award has not granted me any special powers. It has had no effect on my fees (so that can’t be why producers would want to abolish it.) It came with no cash aw…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:22PMFriday, June 13, 2014
By Kate Kremer. Writers and directors such as Robert Wilson, María Irene Fornes, Richard Foreman, Caryl Churchill, Elizabeth LeCompte, Judith Malina, Julian Beck, Peter Brook, Ed Bullins, a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:44PMBy David Dower. So my friend Clyde Valentín is my guest today on the Friday Phone Call. I seem to be in a mood around friends in transition. As with Deb Cullinan and Todd London, Clyde rece…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:11PMThursday, June 12, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Lorella Loftus in association with The VORTEX presents Cuchulain (pronounced Kuh-HOO-lin), a re-telling of the myths of the Hound of Ulster, inspired by the plays of W.B. Ye…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PMBy Douglas Clayton. The answer is not to sweep them under the rug, refuse to acknowledge their contributions, and hide from our own lack of understanding. And we especially cannot do this wh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:21PMBy Victoria (toy) Deiorio. Last night there was an outpouring of disgust, sadness, confusion, anger, and frustration over a decision to again treat our field as though we are not as importan…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:57AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. Has “diversity” become a word like “patriotism” used to be—something you need to support, and will be attacked if you question, but something that means so man…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:58PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. Reading Henry VI, parts one, two and three, I was in awe. Aside from the usual chromosomal explosion that I always get from Shakespeare's verse, I was in awe because I re…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:01PMBy Chris Garza. I found myself thinking that Theatre Unbound was trying to play it safe by partnering a new artist like Isabel Nelson with Anne Bertram, a theater veteran; in Nelson’s prev…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PMMonday, June 9, 2014
By Natalie Sanchez Valle. Theater for students of color is needed in the University: to speak about these issues and at the same time to break the “Berkeley Bubble” by showing that issue…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:44PMBy Hannah Wolf. So what has the drive to make work in Romania taught me? I learned that art that has nothing to lose makes for theater that is fierce and always has something to say.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:37AMBy HowlRound TV. Theatre of Yugen presents a full stage presentation of "This Lingering Life", written by the New York based Chiori Miyagawa and directed by Yugen's Artistic Director Jubilit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:32AMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Play length & structure: What are the trends, Why, How?" and will be moderated by Shaun Michael @DonShaunMiguel—who like all of our mod…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:12AMSunday, June 8, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The world's most inspiring and innovative cities understand the importance of factoring arts and culture into decisions that shape the future of the region and the lives of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:45AMBy Hayley Finn. Over the past year I have observed that the success of this residency lives in the partnership that Kira and Michelle continue to develop. This partnership is based on shared…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:08AMFriday, June 6, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Actor’s Express and One-Minute Play Festival present The 3rd Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer production HowlRound T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:08PMBy David Dower. My guest today is Richard Montoya, playwright and a co-founder of Culture Clash . Culture Clash is turning 30! And for many years the trio (Montoya, Herbert Siguenza, and Ric…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:08PMBy Greg Giovanni. Some might point out that Noh lacks the excess of Gothic. There is no visual, aural, or excess of story, but one cannot deny the emotional excesses of the tortured soul, th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:19PM 
