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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

María Irene Fornés talk livestreams on HowlRound TV—Thurs, Feb 20 by HowlRound

By 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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Monday, February 17, 2014

Free Shakespeare in the Heartland by HowlRound

By Diane Timmerman. Our Shakespeare productions have become beloved Indianapolis events that draw over one thousand people per evening. We offer pre-show bands, food trucks, and beer and win…

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Techne: Getting Fit by HowlRound

By Gwydion Suilebhan. The truth is, I’m a sucker for the well-timed arrival of useful data: just the right information, just when you need it. It’s the surest way, if you ask me, to make…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:51AM

Twitter Chat: How Can Theater Get Political Influence?—Thurs, Feb 20 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Can Theater Get Political Influence?" and will be moderated by Alan Katz @dcdramaturg—who like all of our moderators, authors, and cont…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:12AM
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Theater in the Hoosier State by HowlRound

By Courtney Sale. Defining “new” and locating our reach takes a tremendous amount of dialogue and messaging and collaboration. As art makers here our work can be only be as brave and as …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:32AM
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Goodman Theatre livestreams conversation with Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson and Director Jessica Thebus—Sun, Feb 16 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre, Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for Tracey Scott Wilson's play "Buzzer". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced H…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:53PM
Friday, February 14, 2014

Creating a New Play Microcosm by HowlRound

By Taylor Gruenloh. Starting a theater company is much like getting ready to write a book report in the sixth grade. Before you get to the nitty-gritty, you first have to figure out the “F…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:17PM

Minneapolis One-Minute Play Festival livestreams on HowlRound TV—Sun, Feb 16 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. 90 plays, 50 playwrights, 1 minute... and counting. Walking Shadow Theatre Company and Mixed Blood Theatre present the 2nd annual One Minute Play Festival in Minneapolis liv…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:43PM
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Confronting an Ugly Truth: Beauty, Conformity, and Ethics in Marius von Mayenberg’s The Ugly One by HowlRound

By Matt McGeachy. But what happens when the question of beauty and the question of identity are fused into one? What if the question when we saw our own faces was not, “Who am I?” but ra…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:36PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

In Defense of My Undergraduate Playwriting Degree by HowlRound

By Alan Dupont. I'm not sure a business degree is practical anymore. It depends on the program, I suppose, but if colleges are preparing students for the workforce—and I've argued that tha…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:37PM

Dinner with Amiri Baraka by HowlRound

By Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly. Before I was a mother, I was a mini-revolutionary. I say was, because I currently feel as if my politics are lost in a world of Elmo and potty-training... That i…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:15PM

Audiences, Artists, Theaters: Livestreaming Triple Play Discussion Series—Thurs, Feb 13 by HowlRound

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 05:43PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Muy Very Authentico is Entertaining and Más o Menos Genuine by HowlRound

By Chris Garza. Underneath all of the comedy "Muy Very Authentico" is about imitation and escape and this starts the moment you walk into the theater. The box office at Open Eye Theater is u…

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Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work—Wed, Feb 12 by HowlRound

By 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 03:50PM
Monday, February 10, 2014

In Memory of Amiri Baraka by HowlRound

By Bianca Sams. Amiri Baraka’s work taught me that as an artist you could be brash, political, irreverent, and even obnoxious if you liked. Baraka’s words could take the audience by the …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:49PM

A New Approach to Othello: Shakespeare's Dark Lady by HowlRound

By John Hudson. By showing that Othello has similar content to her poetry, and Emilia bears multiple resemblances to Amelia Bassano herself, "Writing Othello" makes the case that the ‘dark…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PM

Live on HowlRound TV: Musical Theater & Hidden Communities—Tues, Feb 11 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents "Behind the Music-al: Goes Behind Closed Doors" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at htt…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:28PM

Twitter Chat: Raising a Family While in the Arts—Thurs, Feb 13 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Raising a Family While in the Arts" and will be moderated by Garlia Cornelia @garliacornelia on Thursday, February 13 on hashtag #newplay at …

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

On the Builders: Marianne Weems in Conversation by HowlRound

By Srila Nayak. The Builders Association: When we first started a lot of people would say, “Is this theater?”—Producers, presenters and audience members alike. And our response at the …

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A Polish Theater Cookbook: The Loose 20 Minute Break by HowlRound

By Dara Weinberg. Our US union regulations and laws require us to take breaks of a certain time, at a certain time. But nothing requires us to take *exactly* and *only* 5 minutes every hour …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PM
Friday, February 7, 2014

Does It Matter that It Was Written by a White Guy? by HowlRound

By Andrew White. Theater artists (and institutions) in the U.S. today constantly grapple with this messy duality: caught between a belief in this idealized vision of infinite potential to ex…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:08PM

National Center for Arts Research Livestream Their Inaugural Report—#NCARreport @artsresearch—Mon, Feb 10 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Join the National Center for Arts Research, Theatre Development Fund, and the Signature Theatre as they partner to present the Inaugural NCAR Report, Exploring the State of …

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2nd Annual Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)—Sun, Feb 9 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival and E.M.P. Collective Present the 2nd Annual Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRou…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:44PM
Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Group Theatre, Revisited by HowlRound

By Jonathan Mandell. "The House of Connelly" by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Green remains a shocking play—indeed, it is in some ways more shocking now than it was in 1931, when Group …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:49PM

What is Cultural Appropriation: Revisiting Peter Brook’s Mahabharata by HowlRound

By Tlaloc Rivas. By allowing only a European/Western perspective to lead the artistic presentation of stories about class, race, and gender, are we continuing to allow those narratives to be…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:35AM
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Fears of the Artist Sustain a Dysfunctional System by HowlRound

By Jamil Khoury. The twenty-first century artist needs to be an artist entrepreneur. Once the artist more firmly controls artistic production, the threat of economic retaliation and banishme…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:49PM

What makes an artist qualified to tell a story? by HowlRound

By Anjali Bhimani. To say that someone, anyone, is categorically unable to understand something about the human condition because it isn’t part of their own experience or heredity is ludic…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PM

Audiences, Artists, Theaters: Livestreaming Triple Play Discussion Series—Thurs, Jan 6 by HowlRound

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 02:55PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Latino Theater in Los Angeles es Muy Bueno by HowlRound

By Holly L. Derr. Whether Latinos begin a theater movement of their own and/or begin to get produced on regional and Broadway stages in representative numbers, given that 49.9 percent of Ame…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:40PM

Radical Compassion and the Ethics of Cultural Representation by HowlRound

By Michael Malek Najjar. When the history of intercultural theatre is written, we will always remember the directors that created these works (i.e., Brecht, Barba, Taymor, Ninagawa, Ong), bu…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:04PM

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work—Wed, Feb 5 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Get advice and get to work! Livestreaming on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv from The Public Theater, NYC this Wednesday, February 5 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) /…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic