Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMYou’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. …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:40PMThe 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 12:20PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep’em coming—write to me at [email protected] . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, Help! I'm at my wit's end. I just finished grad sch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMSunday, July 7, 2013
When you are possessed by a dream, when you are the inhabitant of a dream, you are driven by this, by a kind of heart beating.—Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous I dream…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMSaturday, July 6, 2013
This post is the fifteenth 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 12:25PMThursday, July 4, 2013
I was twenty-three years old when I applied to grad school. That part matters. I was more than a year past my college graduation, long enough to have a real job and a reasonable-for-New York…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe Nina Variations by Steven Dietz takes as its premise a replaying with variation of the final scene from The Seagull . Nina, an actress, returns to the town where she grew up. She meets K…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMPanglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents their next Plays in Progress program with an in-person and online developmental reading of Andrew Kramer‘s new play Crying for Li…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
“What do you need?” Sarah Bellamy asks the awed group of students from Twin Cities’ high schools gathered in a circle on Penumbra’s main stage. The stage where children have been bor…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe central set piece in Ragged Wing Ensemble’s Time Sensitive is made of one of the most challenging materials to use in theater. It’s heavy. It’s messy. It’s slippery. You can touc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMWhen I entered the New London Theatre just near Covent Garden to see War Horse in November 2011 four years after its world premiere, the Tuesday evening performance was most assuredly sold o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:38AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde This Wilde quote introduces the script for Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, produced by Walk…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:25PMWhen I first moved to Los Angeles, I was wary of attending the theater. LA is an industry town, and if there's one thing I'm not interested in, it's staged screenplays. Don't get me wrong—…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMYou’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. …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AMMy hesitation in writing this post is analogous to my skepticism of MFA programs. Both carry the implication that there is some sort of practical path, a series of choices by which one can i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25AMMonday, July 1, 2013
This piece continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatre (WIT).…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMStrange Attractor Theatre present their latest original performance play, Enlightenment on E Floor North , livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm AKDT (Juneau) / 10:30pm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:08PMDear HowlRound Readers, Conversation Curators, Mappers, and Livestreamers: Be a part of building a new arts economy that will support the creative lives of artists in a dignified and equitab…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:33AMSunday, June 30, 2013
At the end of a good play, many people give praise to the playwrights, actors, directors, and technicians who have contributed to the piece as a whole. Few audience members think about the p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:01PMA few years ago, both of us decided to apply to graduate school. Though Annah was living in New York at the time and Whitney in Chicago, we had traveled fairly similar paths: internships at …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
It’s strange to be writing about Vancouver’s theater community right now. The movers come tomorrow and my little family starts a trek to Ottawa, Ontario. Leaving Vancouver is very diffic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMFriday, June 28, 2013
Jeremy Stoller: Can you describe the LMDA community? Vicki Stroich: There’s a real mixture. There are academic dramaturgs, who are working at universities and teaching dramaturgy, theater …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:05PMAs a born and bred Vancouverite who's built his entire professional career here (and there aren't too many people like me around, Vancouver being a city of transients), I'm not equipped to a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:25PMNew Dramatists in New York City will be livestreaming their Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:16PMThursday, June 27, 2013
“Living in the most visually stunning city in the world makes it hard to create.” Or, “No one in the outdoor capital of Canada wants to come inside to sit in a dark black box.” Or �…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:26PMHeading to Andersonville to see The Miss Neo Pageant , a “feminist play for accidental feminists”, I was totally preoccupied by an enormous zit that had erupted on my chin. At thirty-fiv…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Elaine: Can you describe Vancouver for our international colleagues? Heidi: Playwright Hiro Kanagawa gave a fantastic talk looking at our colonial history, the technological history, and the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMI feel like we’re in a reality moment. In the theater - and in the culture at large. I wonder if the fact that I’ve been speaking about it a lot lately might might mean that this particu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:35PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
I have read countless coming-of-age stories. As a teenager and young adult many of those stories were lifesavers. I still struggled but I didn’t feel alone anymore. I'm discovering now a s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM"Odd Spaces" was the inaugural event of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new performance art program. Set across the museum in spaces often hidden, overlooked, or disregarded as loci of aesth…
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