Thursday, April 10, 2014
By 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 02:50PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
By Kevin Becerra. No amount of research or conversation can quite prepare you for a play where eleven deaf-blind actors are telling their own stories and dreams while baking bread. Adina Tal…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:42PMBy Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston was started by four people: Andrea Genser, Susan Kosoff, Jane Staab, and Tony Hancock. The mission of the theatre was to make a prof…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:20PMBy HowlRound TV. Re-imagined 20th-century music and original video projections swirl with neuro-physics dream music built from oscillating fields and statistical mechanics in this new chambe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:34PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
By Bess Rowen. The New York Neo-Futurists are a group of performers who are best known for their long-running show "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", which is their attempt to do 30 s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:48PMBy 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 03:09PMMonday, April 7, 2014
By Christine Bruno. Not only is the portrayal of disability by an able-bodied actor equivalent to blackface—what we in the disability community derisively call “cripping up” (pretendin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:09PMBy HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presents a conversation with author Soman Chainani livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:34PMBy HowlRound. 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.* …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:02PMSunday, April 6, 2014
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The landscape of theater accessibility for deaf people bears a lot of questions, many that lead back to the question of art and its purpose. Theater and art inspires us…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:38AMFriday, April 4, 2014
By Miranda Craigwell. HowlRound is working with playwright residency sites around the country to track the impact of what it means to have a playwright on staff. At each of the fourteen thea…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:31PMBy Garrett Ayers. Over the course of my freelance directing and teaching career, I have observed a troubling trend. The professional actors I direct, and the undergraduates I teach, are havi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:28PMBy David Dower. Today my guests are Deb Stein and Suli Holum. Together they are Stein|Holum Projects and ArtsEmerson is about to premiere their second piece, The Wholehearted. Their earlier …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:53PMThursday, April 3, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. March and April are always the most frenzied months for New York drama critics, with nearly half of the entire Broadway season’s openings crammed into the few short we…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:03PMBy HowlRound TV. T he One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) (Dominic D’Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Ar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:43AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
By Jeffrey Mosser. So what is the model? Where is the Venn Diagram? Which flowchart should I follow to start my ensemble theater? From the similarities of these three case studies I’ve att…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:13PMBy HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents The Art of Collective Invention conversation livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:33PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents Perspectives in Theatre Criticism livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced How…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:18PMBy Matt McGeachy. The idea to theatrically explore the theme of forgiveness came to director Soheil Parsa and writer/performer Peter Farbridge while travelling in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:54PMBy 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 05:32PMMonday, March 31, 2014
By Casey Cipriani. But this particular day I was walking uphill in ninety-five degrees heat wearing hosiery, a corset, a silk slip, a long sleeved collared shirt, a wool skirt and a wool coa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:58PMBy HowlRound. 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.* …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:39PMSunday, March 30, 2014
By Jennifer Lane. Last week was one of those weeks where a handful of organizations decided to send out their rejections on the same day, a sort of "kick 'er while she's down" conspiracy. I'…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:43PMFriday, March 28, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The Foundry Theatre, New York presents Radical Imagination: A Conversation with Robin Kelley & Taylor Mac livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:09PMBy Jeffrey Mosser. foolsFURY is a theater ensemble from San Francisco that sees advantages in working with playwrights and devisors, and seizes opportunities to become a touring company. As …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:46PMBy David Dower. My guest for this call is the Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Deb and I have worked alongside each other for decades now—though that…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:22PMThursday, March 27, 2014
By Bruce Norris. In the last couple of seasons I’ve become aware of a ticket scheme already practiced by some of our larger regional theaters, and currently under consideration at some whe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:13PMBy Alice Stanley. In the talkback following "Amnesia", someone asked a pertinent question: “Have you ever gotten into any trouble telling this story because you’re white?” The conversa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:38PMBy HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents a conversation with Anne Bogart livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlR…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:16PMBy HowlRound TV. NoPassport and Louisiana State University Department of Theatre present the 8th annual NoPassport Theatre Conference—Dreaming the Americas: The Diasporic Imagination lives…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:49AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
By Paula Vogel, Blanka Zizka. Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq is the result of two years of development, beginning with a conversation between Paula Vogel and Blanka Zizka during a playwriting…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:21PM 
