Sunday, January 5, 2014
By 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 11:27AMSaturday, January 4, 2014
By Patrick Gabridge. In theater, it’s easy to mistake weather for climate. If I have a string of productions, I suddenly think the world has turned around and good things are happening all…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:48AMFriday, January 3, 2014
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. So the first lesson we’ve taken away from becoming The Welders: the world isn’t really against us. In fact, the world seems to have wanted something very …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:35PMBy HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) present The 3rd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons base…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:02PMThursday, January 2, 2014
By Jack Serio. If a high school’s production of "Rent" has been cancelled, that director certainly isn't going to push for a David Mamet play next season. These high school administrators …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:50PMBy HowlRound TV. Circus Chickendog’s show at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on at Friday, Janu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PMBy 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. I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:17PMTuesday, December 31, 2013
By Chris Garza. According to Abbey Swafford, in the playwright’s notes, the seed of "Parhelion" came from a day ten years ago when Swafford saw what she thought was a sundog after she clim…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMMonday, December 30, 2013
By Stephen Spotswood. A while back, a fellow theater artist who has considerable experience working with seniors told me that it’s a lot like working with inner-city middle school students…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMSunday, December 29, 2013
By Tom Horan. What people imagine less often is a playwright-in-residence who relates only tangentially to the business of a theater (either out of disinterest or lack of access), who desper…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMSaturday, December 28, 2013
By Dara Weinberg. Great Polish theater has scraped its way into existence from stateless, state-in-exile, or state-straightened circumstances. European Union coffers can't take credit for th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMFriday, December 27, 2013
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the blog this past year.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMThursday, December 26, 2013
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the HowlRound’s NewCrit this pas…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMWednesday, December 25, 2013
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. Since our beginning, we have published nearly 600 theater artists who have contributed a journal artic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMTuesday, December 24, 2013
By Holly L. Derr. As Co-Artistic Director John Sloan of The Antaeus Company, who also acts with the company, put it, “You are instantly that much more alive and awake and listening that mu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMMonday, December 23, 2013
By Marshall Botvinick. The indefensible cannot be defended, which means that we are ultimately left with the disturbing yet undeniable paradox that terrible people often create works of unim…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMSunday, December 22, 2013
By Alex Ates. Has the American regional theater betrayed its audiences by not telling their stories, by not telling stories about the world around us? Has the mission of the not-for-profit r…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PMSaturday, December 21, 2013
By Gwydion Suilebhan. For my own part, I’m excited by the thought of using a speech-to-text tool of some kind to “take dictation,” as it were, during an improvisation exercise. Imagine…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:35PMFriday, December 20, 2013
By Jonathan Mandell. Why are so many accents on stage so awful? They aren’t in the movies. I first noticed this problem as a child on a family trip to London, where my parents for unfathom…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:52PMBy HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents The Holiday Hip-Hop Theatre Explosion —a full evening of family-friendly performance, hosted by Zell Miller III and featuring DaShade …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:51PMThursday, December 19, 2013
By Alice Stanley. The Mighty Vandals is successful from a different standpoint—one of cultural celebration and education. New Carpa Theater Company was founded in 2002, dedicated to creati…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:26PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
By Kyle A. Thomas. With every conference I attend and every person I talk with currently holding a PhD in theater… the mantra is always the same: there are vastly more PhD graduates in the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMBy HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" livestreams for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday, December 19 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:36PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
By Allison Vanouse. One is likely to be familiar with some work of the Chinese-born American choreographer Shen Wei without knowing it: it was Wei who created the spectacular opening ceremon…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:32PMBy Pearl Cleage. My sister took two of her grandchildren to see the production of “A Christmas Carol” at the Alliance Theatre and reported back to me her surprise at the multi-colored ch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:45PMMonday, December 16, 2013
By A. Nora Long. I know a number of extraordinary artists in the country who give up making art, because they want a family, they want to go to the dentist, they want to eat vegetables. This…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:33PMBy HowlRound TV. In partnership with the United States Department of State, Arena Stage teaching artists have been working in Zagreb, Croatia with young adults with physical disabilities to …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:56PMSunday, December 15, 2013
By Ezra LeBank. I would like to argue that it is urgent that the national community of university theater departments shift the processes and expectations in our production seasons in order …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:51PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
By Patrick Gabridge. In my life as a farmer, there really is a time to plan, a time to sow, a time to weed, and a time to reap. In theater, there are periods to think up new ideas, to write …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:15PMFriday, December 13, 2013
By Lauren Gunderson. The first question from an audience of about sixty who stayed for the talkback of one of my new plays came from a guy who looked post-middle-age, glasses, uncool hair, j…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:35PMBy HowlRound TV. The Playwrights Foundation presents The 4th Annual San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:22PM 
