Thursday, April 24, 2014
By Alice Stanley. “So long as it’s got a cunt it’s all right with you!” Stevie barks in Edward Albee’s 2002 Tony-award winning play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" while interrogatin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:19PMBy HowlRound TV. StageSource, Boston presents the Defining Gender Parity Town Hall livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:11PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
By David Dower. All of a sudden, I had the visceral sensation of a melting away, a fog lifting, a waking up. It was physical and it was emotional. It stopped my breath. …The moment I saw T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:23PMBy Rick Dildine. Shakespeare is credited with writing 38 plays. Some say as many as 43 and some say as few as zero; no matter what, all are in the public domain. I thought: “What if we gav…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:04PMBy HowlRound TV. South Coast Repertory's 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in Costa Mesa, California presents the panel "What is the role of the playwright?" livestreaming on the glob…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:12PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. The most prolifically produced living playwright in New York this season lives in Texas. I saw five works of theater by Kirk Lynn in four different New York venues over …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:47PMBy Sara Guerrero. The project’s success has been due to a number of factors, including (but not limited to): playwright-in-residence José Cruz González, someone I have looked up to since…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:34PMMonday, April 21, 2014
By Julie Marie Myatt, José Cruz Gonzaléz. José Cruz González interviewed by Julie Marie Myatt, two of South Coast Repertory’s playwrights-in-residence. José Cruz González is the play…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:37PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How do you translate theater into other languages and into other cultures?" and will be moderated by Playwrights Foundation @pwfoundation—w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:55PMBy 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 04:38PMSunday, April 20, 2014
By Kelly Miller. There is a community and artistic engagement revolution happening at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California right now. And it’s being led by our playwrights. Jos�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:55AMFriday, April 18, 2014
By Joelle Jameson. The neglect of playwriting as a genre in what I’ll lovingly call the creative writing industrial machine—poetry, fiction, and non-fiction/memoir are the ruling three�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:03PMBy Loy Webb. We cannot be preoccupied before or during a show with differences of race, class, sexuality, etc., and assume because of these differences the lives of those we see before us ar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:35PMBy David Dower. Many of you have already read the story of my first meeting with Olga Garay-English in 2002 in Portland, Oregon. A TCG-sponsored gathering called New Works, New Ways. From th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:13PMThursday, April 17, 2014
By Dani Snyder-Young. Across the festival, every production I saw had a multi-racial cast; "brownsville song" and "Steel Hammer" deal explicitly with race and cast accordingly, and all the o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:02PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
By Deborah Stein, Suli Holum. The second time I worked with my boxing trainer, I burst out crying. I don’t know what set me off, I know that it was at the end of the session and I was exha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:53PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
By Sam Marks. But maybe the reason I obsess over sports is because of how very different they are from what I have chosen to do. In sports, there’s the illusion of fairness and opportunity…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:16PMBy Patricia Davis. “One of the most important things the occupation has succeeded in doing,” Nabil Al-Ra’ee says, “is to kill hope, to shut down the mind, and to kill the imagination…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:17PMBy HowlRound TV. Join SMU from Dallas, Texas as they present the conversation Transforming Arts and Culture Nationwide livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV n…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:23PMMonday, April 14, 2014
By Will Power. Isn’t boxing just like writing a play? First, you have to train (the muscles in the gym if a boxer, the mind facing the screen if a writer). Then you have to fight! (What we…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:16PMBy Srila Nayak. Based on an actual photograph, the main action of Lucy Kirkwood’s play is an American photojournalist’s unyielding quest to unlock the mystery of a photograph taken by hi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Dramaturgical Collaborations in Devised Work" and will be moderated by @ArtsEmerson—who like all of our moderators, authors, and content pr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:29PMBy 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 04:14PMSunday, April 13, 2014
By Mat Smart. In an age where so much can be recorded and on-demand, theater is an antidote to spending our day looking at a screen, to watching the YouTube videos and television shows anyti…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMFriday, April 11, 2014
By Greg Redlawsk. A sampling of some of the major non-profits suggests that there are at least, on average, 8 to 10 unpaid interns working at any given time in the average mid to large sized…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:53PMBy HowlRound TV. Theatre Bay Area presents three livestreaming sessions from their annual conference on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMBy HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) & Perseverance Theatre present the 1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced Howl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMBy David Dower. Today I get a chance to talk to a team of brothers who have been making work together for decades: David and Jeremy Wilhelm . There's such hybridity in their creative partner…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:27AMThursday, April 10, 2014
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. We did "Pippi", and we had American Sign Language interpretation every weekend. This is because Wendy Lement, the producer at Wheelock, directed the play herself, and w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PMBy HowlRound TV. Inspired by pioneer British filmmaker, artist, gardener and gay rights activist Derek Jarman, known for such controversial films as "Sebastiane", "The Last of England", and …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:38PMBy Bertie Ferdman. Where "This Was the End" stood out was in playing with age in two ways. The first was with the presence of older bodies onstage, having an elder cast be their age and all …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:50PM 
