Friday, December 13, 2013
By 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 02:22PMThursday, December 12, 2013
By Matt McGeachy. Taking a similar view as their starting point, creators/performers Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir created a show exploring myriad components of gay heritage, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:06PMBy Iulia Popovici. But what interested me in that scene, besides the actual incredible fact that in a Romanian city somebody had decided to build, in 2011, a wall between “white people” …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:52PMBy HowlRound TV. Join the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and members of the Latina/o Theatre Commons as they share ideas and outcomes from a recent 2013 national convening of the Latina/o artist…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:32PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
By Andrea Tompa. As everyday life worsened in Romania, food, public services such as electricity, water, and gas started to disappear. Anything with a concrete reference to these problems co…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:33PMBy Andrew Haydon. Earlier this year I went to Romania, ostensibly to watch the excellent National Dance Showcase. Contemporary dance is, by and large, a wordless form. Okay, a lot of contemp…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:50PMBy Dani Snyder-Young. Paul is a controversial figure, and Silk Road Rising's extensive dramaturgical materials paint a compelling picture of a controversy. Paul has been characterized in man…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMBy HowlRound. If you have an idea for a topic or if you want to moderate the discussion, contact us on Twitter @HowlRound or post a comment here. Our next Howl will be on Thursday, December …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:45PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
By Ioana Mălău. Fast-forwarding to our times, Ivan Vyrypaev, award winning Russian playwright and filmmaker, described the current period as an era of vague criteria, unset rules, and deco…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:18PMBy HowlRound TV. Let’s Geaux, Y’all! The National Performance Network Annual Meeting in New Orleans will be livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMBy 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 12 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:46PMMonday, December 9, 2013
By Ioana Tamas. Even though after the fall of communism in 1989, the democratisation of artistic life gave an immense opportunity to accept new forms of expression and organisation, it also …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:10PMBy HowlRound TV. This information session will introduce the Many Voices program's two tracks (Mentorships and the recently expanded Fellowships), share helpful tips and insights into applyi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:18PMSunday, December 8, 2013
By Iulia Popovici. Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism—playing the monkey for the zoo visitors t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:11PMBy HowlRound TV. Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents " Aristotle was a Man! ", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic struct…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:13AMFriday, December 6, 2013
By Holly L. Derr. But Katy Perry is certainly not the first Westerner to misrepresent the geisha. The history of the Japanese geisha is long and complicated: The term has not always meant th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:46PMThursday, December 5, 2013
By Holly L. Derr. Before they do their own fair share of shooting, the characters in Anton Chekhov's unfinished play "Platonov" (1878), an early dramatic work written while he was a schoolbo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMBy HowlRound TV. Seth Lepore presents "Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names"—a theatrical web-a-thon spectacle that will look at the meta-examination of both failing and succeeding in real tim…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:15PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
By Jacob Richman. There is a mixed lineage of performance work involving audience movement, from ancient parades and processions, to Fluxus non-genre “Happenings,” to Punchdrunk’s wild…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:47PMBy Chelsea Pace. Each fight must be run through at least twice prior to any run of a scene or piece. And then swings and understudies need to do it twice as well. I know it takes longer than…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:31PMBy HowlRound TV. You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which is livestreaming for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRoun…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:17PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
By Alice Stanley. Faithful to its name, A Good Death is about, well, death, but mainly about how we choose to view it. In particular, the play examines how who might be termed “professiona…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:43PMMonday, December 2, 2013
By Pearl Cleage. The day after the opening, I get an email from a lawyer friend who says: “Okay, Pearl, you’re the expert. Explain the second act of that play we saw last night.” I sig…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:40PMBy 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 03:01PMSunday, December 1, 2013
By Ira Gamerman. Because the indisputable fact is, you guys are in charge, and I’m not. You guys work for the organizations and theaters, which are in a position to not only help me and ot…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
By Meron Langsner. While historical documents and techniques relating to the practice of dueling are invaluable resources, and their study greatly enriches the practice of theatrical combat,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMFriday, November 29, 2013
By Adam Burnett, Jud Knudsen. We contend that contemporary theater is largely a false market supported by philanthropy’s phantom seats and unless we want to really invest in letting it fai…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PMBy Andrew Roblyer. I have trust issues. This is an important realization for me, especially when I’m managing artistic and organizational development. So I’ve decided to dedicate this mo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:01PMThursday, November 28, 2013
By Allison Vanouse. Alfred Jarry's Pere Ubu embodies the horrifying insensitivity, violence and banality of the distant powers that run the modern world. But David Thomas' Pere Ubu is an org…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
By Jack Reuler, Aditi Kapil. Over 50 percent of the people entering by way of our Radical Hospitality program are under thirty, 37 percent of them make less than $25,000 a year, 30 percent a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:41AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
By Matt McGeachy. In the Daniel MacIvor short scene, “Kevin,” featured in The Wrecking Ball #15 – To Russia with (Gay) Love , an impossibly cute little boy tells us that the problem is…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:15PM 
