Monday, January 20, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Don’t miss this pioneering experiment! "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:54AMSunday, January 19, 2014
By David Kranes. The great lesson of theater—for those willing to learn it—is, We are not alone. These are our stories, this is our family, look around—this is our town. These are hard…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:34PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
By Lydia Stryk. To the culture at large, theater is an oddity that is thought (if it is thought of at all) to hold some exceptional status. How its artists subsist is a bit of a riddle to ou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:44AMFriday, January 17, 2014
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Speaking of centralized authority figures: we are also so accustomed to having the “initial creative impulse” of a play come from a playwright .... But given the co…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:21PMBy HowlRound TV. Company One Theatre , in collaboration with ArtsEmerson , host playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for a conversation about her play, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation Abo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:36PMThursday, January 16, 2014
By Patricia Davis. "Protest" is a fascinating study of how, in accommodating oneself to the system and refusing to take personal risks, one can easily become, not simply neutral, but an oppr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:48PMBy Daphne Kim. When an actor asks a question in rehearsal, the director responds, “What does the play want?” Then they have a conversation trying to figure out what the illusive play mus…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:30PMBy HowlRound TV. Arena Stage in Washington, DC and Voices of Now: India present two original plays livestreaming from Kolkata, India "Breaking Through" and "Train of Thought" on the global, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:10PMBy HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Passage Theatre present The 4th Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:36PMWednesday, January 15, 2014
By Bethany Lynn Corey. Movement is the central organizing principle in visual theater as performers communicate information, relationships, and emotions primarily using their bodies incorpor…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:11PMBy Daria Wilke. While preparing "The Jester’s Cap"’s presentation at the Moscow book fair, I got acquainted with the movement called Children-404—this initiative for gay teenagers in R…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:04PMBy HowlRound TV. Sport and Art in Censored Society is the closing panel of PROPAGANDA: A Festival Celebrating Russian Voices which will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PMBy HowlRound TV. Discussions about "Playwrights In Collaborative Processes" and "American Theater & The Aesthetics of Democracy" will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:55PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
By Rob Onorato. I kept coming back to "Fun Home" in high school, in college, and the book found me as I navigated my own thresholds and changes in identity. I came out by degrees, first to m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:59PMBy Thomas Karshan. This absolute freedom was, in Nabokov’s thinking, embodied in play, in games, in sport, and even in the Olympics. For, as he says in “Play”, “there is no play with…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:26PMBy 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 02:02PMMonday, January 13, 2014
By Tess Berry-Hart. Voices ranged from activists to people in the closet, from teachers to pupils, from émigrés to asylum seekers, from businessmen in the city to gayboys on nudist beaches…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:59PMBy HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival and New Georges in New York City present 57 playwrights in the 1st-Ever All-Woman One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:57PMSunday, January 12, 2014
By Lauren Keating. …theater artists and athletes don’t seem to talk much. We both train unwaveringly for performance day. We measure our successes by our own ability to push ourselves to…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:21PMBy HowlRound TV. Don’t miss this pioneering experiment from one of America’s leading visionaries for the stage. "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the g…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:07PMFriday, January 10, 2014
By Dara Weinberg. We need to spend a little time talking about the Julia Child of Polish theater—Jerzy Grotowski—before we can get on to the contemporary companies which have emerged fro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:14PMThursday, January 9, 2014
By Lily Janiak. San Francisco: Repurposed Theatre’s production of Rachel Luann Strayer’s "Drowning Ophelia" offers a critic’s greatest pleasure: discovering a new company of merit.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:43PMWednesday, January 8, 2014
By Amanda Boyle. When I spoke to the students about types of LGBT characters that they are familiar with, many found that the characters fall within a limited range. Student 5 said, “Trans…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:34PMTuesday, January 7, 2014
By Holly L. Derr. This particular framing of the conversation about the need for diversity in the American theater has been happening since the 1980s, and all of the participants at this pan…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:52PMBy Hannah Wolf. This year held the first ever National Independent Theater Festival. Independent theater here is a young community, about 18 years old, but in the last ten years it’s explo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:44PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Stage to Screen/Screen to Stage: Lost in Translation?" which will be about the transition of a work from stage to screen and vice-versa, and …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:38PMMonday, January 6, 2014
By Polly Carl. The deleterious effects of criticism are underscored by mainstream writers such as Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood in the New York Times, who revel in their power to destro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:17PMBy Jonathan Mandell. The conversations about the film adaptation of the play August: Osage County and the live television broadcast of the musical The Sound of Music have not been kind. But …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:15PMBy HowlRound TV. The 2014 Under the Radar Festival Symposium and Culturebot's Scanning the Landscape discussions will broadcast live on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:04PMSunday, January 5, 2014
By Kyna Hamill. I’ve been asked to do a soldier cutting off their own hand and a character’s tongue being cut out and replaced with a new tongue that speaks a magical new language…; a …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:41PMBy HowlRound TV. Don’t miss this pioneering experiment from one of America’s leading visionaries for the stage. "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the g…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:27AM 
