Wednesday, 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 12:00PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Why are so few boards taking advantage of the powerful legitimacy of their governance role to provide proactive leadership to their organizations by engaging in the generative work that is a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:48PMO’Rowe’s play, which is set in Dublin, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2007, as Ireland, too, was “perching precarious.” The Celtic Tiger era, which began in 1994, was both at its …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMI’d love to hear your thoughts on credibility and how you see that playing a role in your work as artists. For those at larger, established theatres, do your efforts to position yourself t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMThere has been much talk in recent years about the lack of “diversity” in American theater. This four part series is meant to redefine the conversation in a way that will move us past th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:23PMSunday, September 8, 2013
Teo: So we can’t be squeaky clean in everything we do, but I think that what Will said about moving with integrity is the best that we can do and that’s all that we can do.. Just like in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMThis three-part series chronicles the musings of a twenty-something college grad making theater in London, trying to figure out what to bring home.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
I suppose I expected a lot of adversarial reactions to proposing a libertarian working in community theater (similar to the adversarial reactions I had gotten in person). Instead, I’ve bee…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, September 6, 2013
On a bare stage, in costumes that hugged every curve, we seemed to invite and demand that the girls’ bodies be the center of every moment. I was horrified. I questioned whether the perform…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:59AMAs the Boston Mayoral campaign prompts a citywide discussion of Boston’s priorities and needs, the arts, culture, and creative community is poised to bring attention to the issues of our s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
Underground practice harasses geography. A counter-culture, if it is healthy, refigures the landmarks and locations of its city. For a certain group, it manages to pull the heightened focus …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:15PMthat socially engaged libertarians can utilize civic practice. I now realize the flaw in my argument was its specificity: anyone with the grievance and spirit can and should use her dramatic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:19AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Are theater marathons turning into a kind of Ironman Triathlon Theater? Consider: *In All The Faces of the M oon at the Public Theater, Mike Daisey will deliver a different new monologue sta…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:41PMTo the extent that politics puts particular policies into effect that govern our lives, art that publicly envisions alternative arrangements of power is political. But what one imagines coul…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:05PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
They employ experimental practices with straightforward agendas: they make art political and turn the political into art. They also seem to represent an increased interest in contemporary th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMThis series on political ideologies in the theater grew out of Caleb Winebrenner’s article responding to Daniel Jones’ post . Each writer was invited to respond to the intersection of po…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:12PMThe 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 04:07PMThe 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 04:07PMMonday, September 2, 2013
This week-long blog series on political ideologies in the theater grew out of Caleb Winebrenner's article responding to Daniel Jones' post . Each writer was invited to respond based upon the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMThis post is the sixteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here’s what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:53PMSunday, September 1, 2013
Beginning in late August and running through the end of September, the brave Rattlestick Theater in New York City will open and run—simultaneously—five Lucy Thurber plays in five separat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMSaturday, August 31, 2013
Actor Lake Bell has been making the press rounds promoting her new indie movie, In a World ... , about a female voice over actor whose gender (and father) have kept her from achieving the sa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:05AMFriday, August 30, 2013
When I was asked to write this blog, I did not estimate how difficult it would be to respond to gun control and how it connects to the artistic community. Gun Control Theatre Action . Swirli…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:33PMThursday, August 29, 2013
On the face of it, “other white men” isn’t a topic you’d necessarily expect an innovative young director and devised theater practitioner like Paula Jo Maske to devote an extensive a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMWhen Caridad Svich proposed a Gun Control Theatre Action in January, I was skeptical. At the time, I was preoccupied as a research volunteer to the March on Washington for Gun Control . For …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:05PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
“Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.” so said singer, actor, social activist, lawyer and athlete, the great Paul Robeson. Robeson may not have b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMOn October 15, 2011, I attend an Occupy Protest on the Streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are effectively shut down by the cops, but not before I could see how many in my community stand…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:05AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Avignon, France. July 25, 2013. No one can comprehend the pain of another, and no one can comprehend the joy of another. One is always going towards another, but is never going beside anothe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMI had offered to host Caridad Svich’s Gun Control Theatre Action in New York City after the project—which coincided with the March on Washington for Gun Control—had successfully conclu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:05PMMonday, August 26, 2013
No one prepares you for how sad life gets. People you love start dying like crazy. Better to be miserable from the word go. Arm yourself for sorrow. This is something Julie Harris would have…
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