Tuesday, 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 03:15PMBy Gwydion Suilebhan. Technology both reflects and changes the ways in which we think. The interactivity of the internet is embedded inside of us. The internet is inside of us, even when we …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:40PMMonday, November 25, 2013
By Tlaloc Rivas. This is a list of plays that educators, theater practitioners, and students should have access to. I believe these 101 works mark only the beginning of a comprehensive surve…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:23PMSunday, November 24, 2013
By Daniel Kelin. I have not conducted a scientific study comparing scripted work and devising, but my experiences have pointed up one dynamic that feeds my dedication to a devising-based pro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:16PMSaturday, November 23, 2013
By Dillon Slagle. Eco theater as simply theater. It is not meant as a protest or an art installation at a climate change conference. It is a complete and independent artistic practice that h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:56PMBy HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents a livestreaming discussion about "Immersive Theater" with Pittsburgh's Bricolage Production Company on the global, commons based, pe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMFriday, November 22, 2013
By Paul Meshejian. I’ve been working in the American theater, making my living, such as it is, for the past forty years. In all that time, I’m not ashamed to say I’ve never earned more…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:01PMBy Adam McKinney. As educators, our interests lay in providing the space for students to be leaders in their own processes of learning. We developed a site-specific dance curriculum and stud…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:34PMThursday, November 21, 2013
By W.M. Akers. In Marie Antoinette, playing through November 24 at Soho Rep, David Adjmi gives us an ego that would make Morrissey’s look small. She's also got her name writ large, stretch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:07PMBy Zuzka Sabata. Call me a convert, but theater is not literature, though there can be literature in theater. Acting is a physical function. It starts with the body. The body is the instrume…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:44PMWednesday, November 20, 2013
By Mitch Mattson. In 2008, the Community Engagement Department at Arena Stage in Washington, DC hosted its first two-day Public Speaking Workshop for Cultural Attachés of the US State Depar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMBy Carrie Wood. For the past twenty plus years I have been teaching theater in small-town Texas. Teaching theater in a rural school is sometimes a challenge. Theater is not always held in hi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:32PMBy 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 11:58AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
By Patrick Maley. The “August Wilson American Century Cycle” series’ dramatic success was no less substantial than its emotional impact. Wilson’s cycle—ten plays set in the ten dec…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:50PMBy Joel Sugerman. When we devise theater with students instead of starting with a script (and roles you have to fill them into like square pegs into octagonal slots), we can work with what i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:33PMBy Caridad Svich. What would happen if ALL, and I mean, ALL of the US Latina/o theatres in this country actually banded together to create shared programming, touring of productions and arti…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:10PMMonday, November 18, 2013
By Michael Rohd. The purpose of the Catalyst Initiative is to serve individual and ensemble artists who are interested in work that brings arts-based practice into collision with community a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:50PMBy Jennifer Bryner. There are many reasons why teaching theater is fantastic—the main reason is the kids. I get to watch them discover who they are and develop as people. This happens in m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:24PMBy HowlRound. Wednesday's topic is "High School Theater" and Thursday's topic is "Artistic Risk" moderated by The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis @pwcenter. Both days' conversations start…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:01PMSunday, November 17, 2013
By Wyckham Avery. Let’s be honest, I didn’t have the slightest idea how to grade students. How do you compare a naturally gifted actor with no work ethic against a hard working but not-s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:14PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
By José Carrasquillo. The recent National Convening of Latina/o theatre artists hosted in the city of Boston by HowlRound at Emerson College was a significant event in the evolution of Amer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:13PMFriday, November 15, 2013
By Kai Green. I feel a pang, sometimes, that you are not mine. I long for my own child, to be responsible for a life, to begin the writing of a new story with another human being, helping to…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:10PMThursday, November 14, 2013
By Dani Snyder-Young. Steven Simoncic’s "Broken Fences", directed by Ann Filmer and Ilesa Duncan, is a nuanced and sophisticated look at gentrification. It focuses on the Garfield Park nei…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMBy Ariel Baker-Gibbs. English playwright Nina Raine’s Tribes garnered rave reviews at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, where it made its North American opening last fall, and is now …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
By Alexis Clements, Black Eyed Susan. Oftentimes, when theater critics or historians talk about Black-Eyed Susan, they speak about downtown impresario Charles Ludlam , founder of the Ridicul…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:41PMBy Cheryl Lynn Bruce. I act, yes. Write, too. Direct and adapt as well. I’ve also narrated, designed, stage managed, worked box office and the bar, proofed copy, and handled the press. I�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:23PMBy 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 03:36PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
By Lily Janiak. When I first encountered Sam Shepard’s "Buried Child", which was just in a production at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, I was a sophomore in high school recently moved to…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:34PMBy HowlRound TV. Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco presents "35 and Counting, a Symposium on Theatre & Social Justice" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:02PMMonday, November 11, 2013
By Meron Langsner. "Fightaturgy" matters. Because it’s the moments of violence on stage that are among the most direct expressions of conflict and objective, and because if they’re done …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:07PMSunday, November 10, 2013
By Meron Langsner. “ Professional Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor ” is apparently one of the best jobs one can possibly have when attending a cocktail party (though for the re…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM 
