Wednesday, March 5, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:22PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
By Holly L. Derr. This dispatch, however, may be of particular interest to my colleagues in Los Angeles, where the explosion of cable TV and web-based content has created a thriving job mark…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMSunday, March 2, 2014
By Aditi Kapil. A case for an open access theater culture. Backstory: Since the 2011–2012 season, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis has practiced Radical Hospitality, providing no-cost ac…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:48PMBy Bostin Christopher. Perseverance Theatre has a long history of creating new work. A great deal of that new work embodies one of Perseverance’s core values: regional voice. In 35 years, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:04PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
By Noel Raymond. We completed our ArtPlace funded Arts on Chicago initiative in June of 2013. Arts on Chicago engaged forty artists in twenty placemaking projects to turn a ten-block stretch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:16AMBy Jim Lasko. The Great Chicago Fire Festival is a new signature event for the City of Chicago. It is a citywide spectacle, co-produced by Redmoon Theater and the City of Chicago. It will be…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:05AMFriday, February 28, 2014
By Jamie Bennett. “Creative Placemaking” describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities’ …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:46PMThursday, February 27, 2014
By Dani Snyder-Young. Rivendell Theatre Ensemble’s premiere production of Joel Drake Johnson’s "Rasheeda Speaking" (January 9-February 15, 2014), directed by Sandy Shinner, explores raci…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:01PMBy HowlRound TV. The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco presents a livestreaming staged reading of playwright-in-residence Andrew Saito's "Stegosaurus" on the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:26PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University asked us to consider the history of theater to realize how much more theater can be—and s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:24PMBy Tenara Calem. The idea that there are profound plays of political content, and then there are “relationship plays” is an attitude I have encountered many times in many places. It seem…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
By Alice Stanley. In a city that provides tough soil for any theater, how does an experimental company navigate creating something that is both innovative and accessible? The answer: remarka…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PMBy Jeffrey Mosser. How do you work as a group? How do you work without a script? How do you ask someone to fund a group without a script? And how are you still together—financially, artist…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:14PMBy HowlRound TV. ArtPlace America hosts the 2014 Creative Placemaking Grantee Summit in Los Angeles livestreaming on the commons-based, peer produced HowlRound.TV network this Monday, March …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:05PMBy HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:03AMMonday, February 24, 2014
By Holly L. Derr. Today, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, local artists are again asserting control over the means of production and claiming American theater for themselves…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PMBy Srila Nayak. In his autobiography, Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934, describes a stunned moment of self-discovery after reading a poem in the New Yorker. Baraka, then a 22-y…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:33PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Universal is Your Writing?" and will be moderated by Ross Howard @rhplaywright and Samuel French, Inc. @mrsamuelfrench—who like all of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:14PMSunday, February 23, 2014
By Polly Carl, Lear deBessonet. Director Lear deBessonet dazzled audiences and critics with her direction of the Foundry Theatre’s production of Brecht’s "Good Person of Szechwan" first …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:18AMFriday, February 21, 2014
By Dara Weinberg. This period of shared, relaxed time puts the performers in harmony with the theater, the rehearsal, and their fellow actors. It's like musicians tuning in the same room tog…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:14PMBy David Dower. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via R…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AMBy HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America with Harvardwood present a livestreaming conversation with André Bishop, Producing Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater in New York C…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:37AMThursday, February 20, 2014
By Jon Wojciechowski. Cape May Stage is a small Equity theater in Southern New Jersey—about as far south as you can go before your hat floats. Geographically, we are isolated from our coll…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:59PMBy Kate Homan. When we do a talk back after our public performances of a Shakespearean play, there's a particular question that frequently comes up. This one question does a fair job of iden…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:49PMBy Allison Vanouse. "Conspiracy" is an adaptation from the only surviving transcript of the Wannsee Conference, a secret meeting at a villa north of Berlin where Nazi officials and high-rank…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
By Tom Horan. Phoenix Theatre seemed like one those theater companies that could teach a thing or two to the business world about efficiency and sustainability. For over thirty years the Pho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:56PMBy Ben Asaykwee. We often discuss originality at Q Artistry, an Indianapolis based new works theater organization. We debate it and comb over it with dirty, bloody brushes or pluck at it wit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:22PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
By Bertie Ferdman. As the performing arts continue to expand and broaden, it is exciting to hear a curator (Marc Bamuthi Joseph) speak about creating art as opposed to witnessing it, openly …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:39PMBy Lou Harry. Indy Actors’ Playground also gives working actors a chance to see their peers at work, a chance for theater professionals in the audience to see other sides of these actors, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:05PMBy HowlRound TV. Emerson College presents a lecture entitled María Irene Fornés: America's Greatest Living Playwright by Dr. Scott Cummings, Chair of the Theatre Department at Boston Colle…
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