Sunday, 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 04:00PMBy Danielle Rosvally. Theater is stressful, and (especially in the amateur world where jobs get done when volunteers have time and resources to do them) often changing. This can create a gre…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMSaturday, November 9, 2013
By Bess Rowen. For those of us who love Tennessee Williams for his early and later work, Christmas has come early this year. As soon as I learned that renowned avant-garde artists Mink Stole…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMBy Linda López McAlister. According to theater historian Brian Herrera, when the first expedition arrived from Mexico in 1598 to establish a permanent Spanish settlement in what is now New …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMFriday, November 8, 2013
By Catherine Trieschmann. The theater tends to attract mercurial, volatile people who seem perfectly rational one day and in desperate need of meds the next. During the hatching period, I do…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:09PMBy HowlRound TV. Dramatists Guild of America presents a seminar on "Consolidating Student Loans" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThursday, November 7, 2013
By Patricia Davis. T.S. Eliot called Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus "one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written…” Samuel Johnson deemed it impossible to produce—“the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:48PMBy Joe Markesbery. I’ve been in acting school for three years at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and have a measly eight months before I make the leap my…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:33PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
By Catherine Mueller. I am most interested in how this program can empower its participants to become Activated Artists, a term I am developing to describe artists operating with a sense of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:05PMBy 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 02:08PMBy HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" at the Public Theater in New York will livestream for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv this Th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:40PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
By Holly L. Derr. I managed to take in five shows, including two solo performances, a collaboration between a Los Angeles theater company and one from the Netherlands, a deconstructed versio…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMMonday, November 4, 2013
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space Productions, London presents the European Premiere of Olives and Blood by US playwright Michael Bradford directed by Prav MJ at Brixton East, London. A play ab…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMBy Hannah Wolf. “Is all new theater here about communism?” I ask my friend and host, Ioana Moldovan, after seeing yet another play about the fear, terrible transgressions, and bloodshed …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:35AMSunday, November 3, 2013
By Michael Rohd. A few years ago I started writing at HowlRound about my ideas for Civic Theater , which turned into my ideas for Civic Practice , which turned into the Center for Performanc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMBy Srila Nayak. What is it that your mind was looking for? Where is your heart? For this you give your heart to everything Your heart is without direction You are destroying your heart You s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:42AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
By Srila Nayak. “To never hear again: ‘There’s not enough money to do a Mexican American Play.’ Do we say the same about Norwegians for Ibsen?” “Artist or Latino artist? Am I one…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:14AMFriday, November 1, 2013
By Srila Nayak. The Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening has finally arrived in Boston. October 31 saw 78 Latina/o actors, directors, playwrights, scholars, producers/administrators, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:32AMBy Lisa Portes. In 2004 and 2005, two seminal Latino/a theatre incubators closed down: the Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Latino Theatre Initiative at …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:59AMThursday, October 31, 2013
By Jose Luis Valenzuela, Chantal Rodriguez. What are the unique needs of U.S. Latina/o theater companies and artists? How do our works reflect the changing landscape of the American theater?…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PMBy Allison Vanouse. Like the earlier project (a memorable smash), The Jungle Book employs a seasoned and celebrated figure of the theater world, Zimmerman following in the foosteps of Julie …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:50PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
By Georgina Escobar. Lo que cae mal, es la obsesión con la identidad. Presiento que debemos hablar honestamente sobre la paradoja de este tema. Por ejemplo, soy mujer gay Mexicana, si--pero…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:22PMBy Tlaloc Rivas. April 1978. It is a warm summer day in Barrio Logan, San Diego. My father and I are attending the annual Chicano Park Day celebration, and I am about to meet my godfather, R…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
By Marisela Orta. We heard people wanting to work, but struggling against categories that others were imposing on them. We heard people longing for connection, excited to be in a room full o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMBy Alice Stanley. Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the country, but in order for me to see a new piece of theater in late August, I had to travel twenty miles west of the metropolitan ar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:54PMMonday, October 28, 2013
By Jorge Huerta. As a theater historian I am often asked “What is the state of US Latina/o theater today?” I look forward to this and many other questions, which will be explored, debate…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:17PMBy HowlRound. The following videos were recorded in March 2013 when the steering committee of the Latino Theater Commons National Convening gathered at HowlRound, Emerson College for the fir…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:44PMSunday, October 27, 2013
By Anne García-Romero. In August 2012, I wrote about the genesis of the Latina/o Theater Commons . Since that time, our initiative continues to grow and expand. As we approach our first nat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:09PMBy HowlRound TV. The HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv will livestream The Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening this Thursday, October 31 to Saturday, November 2, 2013 from Emerson…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:37PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
By Todd London. Where innovation thinkers see ill-adaptive organizations, I see decades of unsupported art and artists, energy and money thrown at institutional issues, as if this can make t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMBy Pearl Cleage. Even my relationship with the theater where I am now happily in residence began forty years ago in just such a confrontational moment when the place was picketed by some Afr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM 
