Monday, 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMI have had the privilege to work on new play development, world premieres, and regional premieres as dramaturg at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The Unicorn Theatre is a proud…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:47AMSunday, August 11, 2013
[T]he TEAM’s work redefines what is theatrically possible and also provides an entry point to at least imagine a new and progressive future through the virtuosity of an artistic form. Perh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThursday, August 8, 2013
Los Angeles is a very naturally post-modern city. There’s no center. There’s disparate elements jutting up against each other. It’s just so jagged and fragmented—even the start stop …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMThis is part four of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday . Chiori Miyagawa asked me to tea in the spring of 2011. She had an idea for a pla…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:32PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Thanksgiving, the simplest and most wonderful of holidays, was complicated at Granny’s house. I couldn’t quite hang in through the premeal two-hand touch football game (my interest waned…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThis is part three of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrecti…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:53PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
This year's Hollywood Fringe Festival —only the fourth in its history—featured two hundred and twelve separate productions in fifty different spaces for a total of more than one thousand…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMThis is part two of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. In the generative stages of making a play, I imagine that a playwright might host …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:44PMYou’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 12:55PMLivestreaming from New Orleans, Louisiana, slam poet Donnie Welch will be presenting a workshop performance of Leaving Dynamite —a new, original piece of slam poetry/monologue theater expl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:49PMMonday, August 5, 2013
This is part one of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Last summer I had a happy reunion with an old friend. Mia Yoo, Artistic Director o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMThe 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 .* For the next …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSunday, August 4, 2013
In March 2003, organizers in fifty-nine countries launched The Lysistrata Project : A Theatrical Act of Dissent. The event, which included 1,029 readings of Aristophanes’ famed antiwar com…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMFriday, August 2, 2013
(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 11:16AMThursday, August 1, 2013
“You might leave feeling sweaty, manhandled, or in need of a shower”—not necessarily encouraging words to hear from an MC, but certainly intriguing. 7 Minutes in Heaven is a reoccurrin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:45PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Emerging from the One Theatre World conference on plays for young audiences, this past May, well-blended with the International Children’s Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, life was pretty wond…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:41PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents the Art and Survival Convening livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Saturda…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:43PMGiver of Light is a new opera. It is also a liberal adaptation of the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. It is set in a landscape that is a plastic and suburban generalization from …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMTo date I’ve had fifty-four productions of my full length plays. But I’ve had nearly twenty-five productions that were planned and never happened. Some of these shows were supposed to ha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:40PMYou’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 02:53PMMonday, July 29, 2013
I hadn’t planned to self-dramaturg my entire collection of work. I certainly hadn’t planned for the process to deeply impact the way I think about my writing going forward. But this is w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PMThe 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 12:20PMSunday, July 28, 2013
Tasked with creating the text and structure of the piece, I knew only that I was writing for a solo actor and a small company of dancers. … I quickly settled on Irma as our lead player. Se…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
My sister and I are sitting in the Metreon movie complex in downtown San Francisco and the lights have just lowered to start the latest Bond movie, Skyfall . I’m there for, let’s be hone…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:28AMFriday, July 26, 2013
This is a regular column featuring musings, observations, and strategies from the frontline of cultural theater-making in the 21st century. See the full column here . It’s been two weeks s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PM“New York is the capital of no known foreign country,” Saul Bellow once said, a view that New Yorkers might hold as deeply as people in the rest of the United States, but for us it’s a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMThe One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company p resent The First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV chan…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThursday, July 25, 2013
Longform improv is weird. Most audiences need a primer on what’s happening before they fully absorb what the show is attempting to do—partially because the show is discovering what it is…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presents Story Slam livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Sunday, July 28 at 5pm PDT (Vancouver…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:59PMOur culture often has a negative view of the MFA degree. With no guaranteed return on investment and a high cost, many see it as a waste of time and money. One can write, act, direct, or dra…
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