Monday, 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:07PMI don’t know how to begin this, because my uncle is sick. He’s fighting cancer and it’s a very big uphill battle. Yesterday I sent him one of my funny monologues in hopes of making him…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMThis summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival . I plan to use these dispatches to share…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:44PMThe 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 01:06PMSunday, August 25, 2013
This blog series focuses on personal perspectives from a select group of practitioners on theater and social change, the nature of artistic efficacy, and on past and ongoing gun control thea…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMFriday, August 23, 2013
This three-part series chronicles the musings of a twenty-something college grad making theater in London, trying to figure out what to bring home. I. Our writer is flying in from America. H…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:05PMThursday, August 22, 2013
And so Shakespeare & Company has decided to present the history cycle, and Artistic Director Tony Simotes is jocund in announcing the decision. When a theater company chooses its season,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:45PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Three works of the Lisbon-based filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes were shown at the MIT List Center throughout May and June. All three are worth something, but I want to concentrate here on one pie…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PM(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 11:15AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Atlanta can get hot this time of year, but for the past three summers, dancers in the Atlanta-based company gloATL have hit the streets and public spaces of the city for "Liquid Culture," a …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMDramatists Guild of America presents the 2nd Annual National Conference in Chicago "Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future" livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:33PMYou’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 project at how…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:45PMThe 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 . If you have an…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:55AMMonday, August 19, 2013
What is it to direct a play? Is it archaeology: digging and digging until you find the truth of a script? Is it sculpture: shaping performance and design until it conforms to the images in y…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMI was recently looking for a TYA play to produce for the 2013 Tennessee Theatre Association Theatre for Youth Festival when I realized that I was a gatekeeper. I was rereading The Stones by …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:15AMSunday, August 18, 2013
What I Want I want an Arab American theater movement. I want an Arab American theater movement that is vibrant and visible and daring and unafraid of its own power. I want an Arab American c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PMWe often consider technology an imposition on both our craft and our business: social media putting pressure on everything from marketing to performance, for example, or IT budgets draining …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:05PMSaturday, August 17, 2013
This summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival. I plan to use these dispatches to share …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMThis is the fourth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process of s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AMFriday, August 16, 2013
How should theater artists be trained? Recently this question seems to have been interpreted primarily as a question about the viability of MFAs and the ethical questions surrounding MFA fin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PM(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 12:25PMThursday, August 15, 2013
Playwright Carlos Murillo says that his 2005 play Dark Play, or Stories for Boys , now in a Do It Live! production, takes place “now,” but I’d place it more in 1997. The play is steepe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PMAt the Playwright’s Festival of new student work in Roanoke, VA last summer, guest responder Robert Ross Parker (Co-artistic Director of Vampire Cowboy Theatre) gave the MFA playwriting st…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMTheatreWorks’ New Works Festival in Silicon Valley, CA presents a livestreaming panel discussion with Charles Vincent Burwell, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, Sharon Kenny, Laura Marks,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Unless we get out of the buildings that house our work and change the way that audiences come into contact with us and our work … our audiences will stay the same…, and the work that tho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PMSometimes, the best way to study a theory or philosophy is to implement it and learn from the results. This twelve-part series is the year-long account of one young artist’s efforts to sta…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:45PMLong Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:22PMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Before The Jungle Book opened at the Goodman Theatre , director Mary Zimmerman gave an interview with Catey Sullivan in Chicago magazine about how she handled the racism in Kipling and Disne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMLong Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMThis summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival . I plan to use these dispatches to share…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:52PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Long Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
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