Tuesday, October 1, 2013
I think about paradoxical needs this experience embodies—for community and solitude; structures and flexibility; stability and change—and the need for all of it, simultaneously, in our l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:35PMMonday, September 30, 2013
We have a particular kind of creative and enterprising expertise that we should recognize as abundance. Focusing on ourselves as exceptionally resourceful, rather than under-resourced, allow…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:16PMSunday, September 29, 2013
Casting gets at the very root of how we tell our stories. The bodies we see onstage make our experiences visible. For invisible people, like trans and gender nonconforming people, it is nece…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMFriday, September 27, 2013
We had to keep stereotypes at bay. Not just that we reject them but enough has been said about the India-America relationship in media, books, and the rapidly imported mass culture. Can ther…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMThursday, September 26, 2013
Brian Herrera’s solo show, "I Was the Voice of Democracy" bravely explores the ways we betray our best selves. Caridad Svich’s gorgeous plays do everything from confronting our most pres…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:19PMThe world has gone dark, and no one will ever watch The Simpsons again. This is a melancholy thought, especially for someone who has been watching The Simpsons his entire life. That caustic …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
I wonder what kind of seismic shift would occur in our field if we measured impact beyond percentages of resources and audience members. How can we better value the deep reverberations of ge…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:31PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The piece is not only a morality play focusing on issues of vengeance and justice, or a play that weighs the value of one man’s life versus the good of the many, but it is also an examinat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:29PMMonday, September 23, 2013
As time passed, my cynical eye grew more nuanced not only as I began to recognize and remember award names, but also value the work of both winners and other nominees. Still, I couldn’t qu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:18PMThe Radar L.A. Festival presents a Professional Symposium convening live on on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, September 26th and Friday…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:07PMSunday, September 22, 2013
Connections between the professional theater women of the past, the present, and the future worldwide are germane here. Most people have never heard of names like Rosamond Gilder, Martha Coi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:55PMThe Dramatists Guild of America presents the Dramatists Guild Academy Seminar An Evening With the O’Neill which will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV netwo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Bienvenidos! I would like to welcome you to Café Onda, an online gathering space in partnership with HowlRound that will feature regular content of the Latino/a Theatre Commons . Why a Lati…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:59PMThursday, September 19, 2013
We watch the bell, silent and expectant. Her fingers keep brushing it, but it doesn't ring. As in any durational work that turns on failure, there is a Beckettian element: as the artist jump…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMHowlRound held a conversation for students and faculty last year at Emerson College to discuss the creation of a theater commons. The conversation, however, quickly turned to how the school�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:58PMAround the Teapot in Los Angeles presents a performance gathering Adventuring Together: Ensembles, Collectives, Laboratories & Networks livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:41PMPanglossian Productions in Williamsburg, VA presents a reading of David Jacobi's Mai Dang Lao livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:09AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
From 2008 to the present, playwright Adrienne Kennedy and Egyptian scholar Nadia Maher were in correspondence. This is an edited selection of emails they exchanged while Nadia was working on…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:18PMI was hoping to encounter a global story that could be turned into a tremendous play about a greener, smarter global future. But, yet again, my imagination did not match reality. Bangalore, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:49PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV network at how…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:44AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The play is set in Nabers’ hometown of Houston, just after Hurricane Katrina sent a flood of mostly Black refugees to seek shelter there in 2005. Racial anxieties simmer and bubble, as the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMThe Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage present a panel discussion on the presence of race and class disparities in media respon…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:55PMThe 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 .* Join us Thurs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:27AMMonday, September 16, 2013
ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage , Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma— a conversation with PJ Paparelli, the co-writer and director of columbinus , Betty Shoels,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:12PMSunday, September 15, 2013
We all want to be makers. And the biggest miscalculation of the not-for-profit arts institution in building its infrastructure is its belief that some people make things and some people just…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PMAnalyzing data would let us give audiences, in other words, what they really want, not what they say they want. It would let us look at people’s cravings and aspirations and desires and se…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSaturday, September 14, 2013
One of the hardest tasks for me to perform as a dramaturg is relinquishing my work to an audience. I’ve known the time was coming; I’ve been working towards that first read-through for m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, September 13, 2013
One board chair commented, “We cast the board like you cast a play: diversity of skills, people who get the mission, people who have a relationship with the theater.”
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:20PMThursday, September 12, 2013
The Minnesota Fringe (MN Fringe) Festival is the largest nonjuried festival in the United States where this year an estimated 16,493 people were in attendance. Every applicant pays a non-ref…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMThere is a growing recognition that the more board members are engaged and exposed to the artistic life of the theater, the more effective they are as board members, and the more able they a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:20PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV network at how…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM 
