Wednesday, May 21, 2014
By Laura Shamas. Is there really no institution in 2014 that will sponsor an ongoing annual study of American women playwrights working in theater seasons around the country (and directors, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:35PMBy Karla Jennings. Anonymous submissions put sole focus on the script. They are especially important in writing competitions, since that’s how outliers usually get a foot in the door. When…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:24PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. Carrie Robbins designed the costumes for the first play that Meryl Streep performed on Broadway, for the original production of "Grease", and for more than thirty other …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:49PMBy John Moore. I was young, knew nothing and was impressionable. I remember being fond of Yuriko’s direction. She would say things like, “go forward from here” while pointing to her he…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:31PMMonday, May 19, 2014
By Amanda Boyle. The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, prides itself on producing “bold new plays,” under artistic director Cynthia Levin. The 2013-2014 season has been somewhat …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:15PMBy HowlRound TV. The Foundry Theatre presents Transforming Justice which is part of the Foundry’s May 2014 Dialogues series Devising Freedom livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How To Sell a Play No One Has Heard of" and will be moderated by Alan Katz @dcdramaturg—who like all of our moderators, authors, and conten…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:24PMSunday, May 18, 2014
By Jonathan Moscone, Lily Janiak. In July of 2014 Lily Janiak wrote a piece for HowlRound in which she spoke critically of her experience seeing the play "American Night" at California Shake…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:42PMFriday, May 16, 2014
By Laura Zabel. The gnaw came on slowly. It started to bother me more when people asked if I thought I’d ever “go back to theater?” I started peeking at audition postings every once in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:13PMBy David Dower. Today I followed a hunch that there was an interesting conversation to be had with Jess Barbagallo and Polly Carl about gender in today's theater. Polly, of course wrote this…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:52PMBy HowlRound TV. How do effective social movements actually get built? We’re bringing three groundbreaking organizers into dialogue who have done just that. Join us for stories and debate …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:21PMBy HowlRound TV. Golden Thread in San Francisco presents a livestreaming performance of "The Fifth String: Ziryab's Passage to Cordoba" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:33PMThursday, May 15, 2014
By Patricia Davis. Although it is based on Ovid’s account of the myth of Philomela in "Metamorphoses", "The Love of the Nightingale" goes beyond the simple outlines of that myth. Wertenbak…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:11PMBy Tiffany Antone. How many playwrights have been told to self-produce? It seems like the go-to response anytime someone expresses frustration with the current system of “Development.” I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:49PMBy HowlRound TV. Little Black Dress INK, Los Angeles is excited to bring its 2014 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project to the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRoundTV network at howlrou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:34PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
By Eric Bass. There are two myths about puppet theater that need to be exploded. The first of them is the more obvious. It is the myth that the puppeteer controls the puppet. As puppeteers, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMBy Oliver Mayer. For an American playwright today, where is Mecca? Where does it all come together: actors of high quality who give maximum effort to a new script; directors with a sense of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PMBy HowlRound TV. Livestreaming the Voices of Now Festival at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC on Friday, May 16 and on Saturday, May 17 at 4:30pm PDT / 6…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:33PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
By Allison Vanouse. By the end of her presentation, Patty Chang had two small bottles of milk. She poured the contents into a tea bowl dating from the Song Dynasty, of the twelfth or thirtee…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:33PMBy HowlRound TV. You’re invited to join Playwrights Theatre Centre from Vancouver, Canada for a conversation about "Interactive Storytelling: Video Games and Theatre" which is livestreamin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:45PMMonday, May 12, 2014
By Rick Shiomi. The term “collaborative” for me conjures up the idea of a loose group of artists with a shared Asian American identity and purpose, working together to produce a wide ran…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:14PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Curtain Calls & Curtain Speeches: Why, How, and When Do You Do It?" and will be moderated by Annie Paladino @anniepaladino and Zhenya Lav…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:39PMBy 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 05:16PMSunday, May 11, 2014
By Srila Nayak. "The Who and the What" will have its New York debut in the Lincoln Theater Center on May 31, 2014. According to Ayad Akhtar, its Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, the play e…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:16PMFriday, May 9, 2014
By Morgan Greene. In accepting the single story that "God’s Work" does not belong in a downtown Chicago theater, do we contribute to the silencing of the voices of our youth? I believe "Go…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:39PMBy David Dower. My guest today is Eric Ting, Associate Artistic Director at the Long Wharf in New Haven, CT. We get into some detail around the challenges of planing a season that amplifies …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:14PMThursday, May 8, 2014
By David Lozano. When I read the list of speakers on the mayor’s panel, it was made of six women, including five artists and one critic. In terms of racial diversity, only one was African-…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:08PMBy Tiffany Antone. I think, rather, that playwrights readily turn over the fate of their work to these committees and power-players, simply because that is the way it’s been done for so lo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PMBy Lily Janiak. This month, Stuart Bousel’s "Rat Girl" is being produced as part of a long-running San Francisco feminist theater festival, Divafest, at the Exit Theatre—the first play b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:09PMBy HowlRound TV. Playwrights Foundation, The Cutting Ball Theater & Tides Theatre in San Francisco, California present a livestreaming performance of the Des Voix Festival...Found in Tra…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:43PMBy HowlRound TV. Live from Nashville, the Tennessee Repertory Theatre presents the Ingram New Works Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at …
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