Wednesday, 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 08:21PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Storytelling in the digital age is a complex task. On the web, we need to embrace a more interactive version of storytelling than we embrace on our stages. Consumers of…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:10PMBy Dani Snyder-Young. Next Theatre Company presented the Midwest premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s "Luck of the Irish". The multigenerational drama revolves around a house that is “ghost-b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:06PMBy 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 02:20PMMonday, March 24, 2014
By Hannah Wolf. I sit in theaters today and I question who this contemporary audience is and if they find themselves represented onstage. The demographics of the audience are different, thea…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Solo Work" and will be moderated by Laura Steinroeder @SoloNewWorksLA—who like all of our moderators, authors, and content producers—self…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMSunday, March 23, 2014
By Michael Rau, Will Davis. Rather than rely on a production model where the script has all the answers, what if we assumed the script was a powerful tool among many powerful tools? What if …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:23PMFriday, March 21, 2014
By Bradley Diuguid. I grew up entranced by Jim Henson’s Muppets. Performing with wry but gentle humor, they pulled back the curtain to snicker at backstage life and deftly expressed all th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PMBy Meron Langsner. Stage combat is the art of creating the illusion of violence for the sake of storytelling. Some illusions are easier and/or less expensive than others. One thing I’ve fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:44PMBy HowlRound TV. The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson at Emerson College, Boston present a performance and book launch for Daniel Beaty's "Trans…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:29PMBy David Dower. One of the dimensions of practice at ArtsEmerson that shapes this environment is the direct connection to the students at Emerson College. We are in our second year of an eff…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:49PMThursday, March 20, 2014
By Stephen Sachs. When Joseph Campbell spoke of the power of myth he didn’t have LA stage actors in mind. Yet a powerful and prevailing myth has spread for years in theater centers through…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:14PMBy Lily Janiak. “A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”—Mahatma Gandhi. If we applied Gandhi’s metric to theater, we’d be judging ourselves by how …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:39PMBy HowlRound TV. How did Actors Theatre get started? Where did the idea come from to create the Humana Festival? Why Louisville, Kentucky? Through a collection of anecdotes, memories, tall t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:39PMBy HowlRound TV. New approaches and new ideas for the American theater are increasingly in demand. But where do we look for inspiration? And what steps do we take once the spark ignites? Thr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:34PMBy HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana present the "1st Indianapolis One-Minute Play Festival" livestreaming on the global, co…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:42PMBy HowlRound TV. University of Wales Trinity St David (UK) presents "Barbie Caerdroia"—a Welsh translation of "Trojan Barbie" by Christine Evans. Translation by Elinor Wyn Reynolds and per…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:45PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
By Meg Taintor. This relationship to the college is central to my work. As the student engagement coordinator, I am constantly trying to find authentic ways to connect our students with our …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:21PMBy Akiba Abaka. The twenty-first century American theater is a communal experience where artists and audiences are bound in an existence which deems them equal parts subject, spectator and b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:40PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
By Jonathan Greene. I have to wonder why Berliners are willing to bring their children to film or theater like "Pluto". Why are they more apt to present for their children’s consideration …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:39PMBy W.M. Akers. Take two minutes to listen to Al Hirt's theme for the failed 60's television show, "The Green Hornet". A funky "Flight of the Bumblebee," it's as irresistible as electric shoc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:25PMMonday, March 17, 2014
By HowlRound. Los Angeles Theatre Center Encuentro: A Festival of National Latina/o Theatre will be held October 12-November 10 2014 and will feature ten companies from around the country, p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:20PMBy Kevin Becerra. Boston’s neighborhoods, some of whose origins can be traced to the 1630s, have been home to myriad political and cultural shifts over the centuries—a concept that blew …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:14PMBy Rick Davis. As a former fellow-traveler, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale than the summiteers, all of this got me thinking: For the twenty two years of Theater of the First Amendment’…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:56PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How hard is it to get a comedy produced?" and will be moderated by playwright Ken Ludwig @ken_ludwig and Samuel French, Inc. @MrSamuelFrench�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:18PMBy HowlRound TV. Liminal Space in London presents a staged reading of "Sket" by Maya Sondhi livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at http://howlround.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:43PMSunday, March 16, 2014
By David Dower, Alan Dupont. Zelda Fichandler once said that the institution was, for her, a context for her questions, a container for her inquiry—that she woke up every morning with thin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:01PMFriday, March 14, 2014
By Jeffrey Mosser. Alvina Krause, one of twentieth century’s most famous teachers of acting, believed, “if you can act Chekhov, you can act anything!” In the summer of 1976 she was 83 …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:24AMBy Holly L. Derr. Sheryl Sandberg, author of "Lean In", has just launched a campaign to "Ban Bossy," so that girls who used to be called bossy start to be told instead that they are leaders.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:05AMBy David Dower. Today I am on the phone with Matthew Glassman and Amrita Ramanan of Double Edge Theatre , located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. We all had engagement on our minds, and I asked …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:44AMThursday, March 13, 2014
By Yoni Oppenheim. As a response to the realities of the current state of the theater for religiously observant theater artists, I co-founded 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company with likeminded a…
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