Thursday, July 25, 2013
Our 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:09PMGhosts, the Ultimate Immigrants: Asian Ghosts in American Theater This symposium at Bay Area Playwrights Festival produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:50PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
As I look back on the twenty-one years I’ve been with Mu Performing Arts (originally known as Theater Mu), and face the reality that I am soon to become the dearly departed (so to speak), …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMThis symposium produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Friday, July 26 at 2pm PDT (Sa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Jacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright of growing renown—a 2012 Theater Communications Group Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a member of Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena. In T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMWhen I decided to apply to an MFA program it was 2006. I was living in NYC, working as a paralegal, and feeding a budding sneaker addiction. Even though I sat in a cubical checking briefs, I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:34PMMonday, July 22, 2013
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 .* Join us Thurs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:39PMSunday, July 21, 2013
And so, how do we to make art in a world that seems obsessed with surface—a surface that is, technologically, and, ironically, about to disappear? The answer for theater, I believe, lies i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMSaturday, July 20, 2013
I knew I wanted to create theater, but what the hell did that even mean? There was something inside of me that was drawn to exploring a question or thought theatrically, but I wasn't really …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMFriday, July 19, 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 03:35PMI had an opportunity to talk to Lily this morning and I know she shares in this apology with me. I believe so strongly in the work of HowlRound because I long for open and transparent conver…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:22PMThe Playwrights Foundation's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco presents " Playwrights’ Roundtable: Mapping Your Career, Taking Action " which will livestream on the global, peer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:55AMThursday, July 18, 2013
What is it about puppets that charm, disarm, and delight? Is it, as Heinrich von Kleist said in his seminal essay “On the Marionette Theater,” that puppets “lack [the] self-consciousne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMGraduate school was intense. I moved three times in four years. At least twice, someone yelled the n-word at me as I walked to (or near) campus. I was broke. While my friends from college we…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
I’m not trying to say that my liberal colleagues aren’t in the communities; they are. But I do believe that the grand stages leave audiences as passive observers, and this isn’t what a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMBy creating in New Orleans, I hope to be a charger for the new American theater movement. A movement where regional theater returns to the idea of what theater can be: art designed to serve …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:42PMWatch this performance of The Shakespearean Jazz Show livestreaming on the global, peer-produced, opensource HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Thursday, July 18 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
In the past few years, California Shakespeare Theater , under the direction of Jonathan Moscone, has been moving toward being as much about California as it is about Shakespeare. No more doe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMMidway through orientation week—awash in a sea of new acronyms and small talk—the seventy-some new students of the Yale School of Drama are herded into a theater to hear speeches from th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:47PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AMMonday, July 15, 2013
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 .* Join us Thurs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:49PMSunday, July 14, 2013
The more time I spent in Rwanda and Uganda, the more inexpert I became. I didn't know how to negotiate for a good price for chapati in the market. ...I didn't know how to spend long, unstruc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe Living Room Theatre of Kansas City, MO presents the livestreaming of The Death of Cupid: A Whiskey Musical on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
A single review can change everything, and it often does. That’s not news to the theater community—even Alec Bladwin acknowledged it in an insightful and straightforward article in The H…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMFriday, July 12, 2013
There 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 the bu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMFresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers present The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours , bringing together the Boston theater community to write, rehearse, and mount an evening of new…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:40AMThursday, July 11, 2013
The Rule of St. Benedict, which has guided those in religious life for approximately 1500 years, says: “Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, ‘I came…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMI remember halfway through my first term I forced my dramaturgy professor to admit he didn’t know my name. There were six of us in the class. As I remember it, later that that same day, a …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PMThe Latino Theater Alliance/Los Angeles is group comprised of Latino theater artists and professionals based in the Greater Los Angeles area, whose individual and collective voices contribut…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
The last time I wrote for HowlRound , in October 2011, I was director of new play development at a theater. Since then, I have turned to the work of solitary writing. I have been in a kind o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMTuesday, July 9, 2013
If you are thinking of getting an MFA and are fortunate enough to be accepted, don’t go. I write this presuming you have to pay for the degree somehow. I write this also acknowledging that…
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