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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Live on HowlRound TV: Network of Ensemble Theaters' MicroFest USA: Honolulu National Summit—Fri, June 14 to Tues, June 18 by HowlRound

Network of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Honolulu National Summit and Learning Exchange livestreaming on HowlRound TV . Sunrise and sunset performances, graffiti artists, pre-sch…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks—The Public Theater, NYC—Wed, June 12 by HowlRound

You’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. …

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Postcards from Russia 3: Omsk by HowlRound

Beyond the Capitals, a project of the Center for International Theater Development , aims to create meaningful encounters between new generations of theater animators in Russia and the Unite…

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Weekly Howl on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Making a career in the arts, making a living in the arts—Thursday, June 13 by HowlRound

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…

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Shaping the Conversation: Script Formatting and Twitter by HowlRound

Considering the capacities of theater for spatial play, does the adherence to linearity formatting…limit more than just playwriting poetics and innovation? What are the broader implication…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival at Actor's Express—Tues, June 11 by HowlRound

The One-Minute Play Festival & Actor’s Express present The Second Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Tuesday June 11 at 5pm PDT (Los Angeles), 7pm…

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Blurring the Lines: Ant Hampton/Tim Etchells’ "The Quiet Volume" and Begat Theater’s "Hidden Stories" by HowlRound

Can we be in two places simultaneously? Can we alter what is real with what is fiction? Can we abandon ourselves and yet be fully in control? And what does theater have to do with any of thi…

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Friday, June 7, 2013

Interview with Carlos Murillo by HowlRound

Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Carlos Murrillo: My education in theater was pretty scattershot. I studied acting as an undergrad at Syracuse, dropped out after less tha…

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On Valuing Diversity, Managing Diversity, and the Difference by HowlRound

This is a condensed version of the introductory essay from a new report called The Arts Diversity Index that was commissioned by Theatre Bay Area with funds from the California Arts Council …

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Interview with Brooke Berman by HowlRound

Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Brooke Berman: Maria Irene Fornes, Marsha Norman, Anne Bogart, Tina Shepard, and Chris Durang. Irene and Marsha were the two biggies thou…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:36PM

A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by HowlRound

We shouldn't be surprised that Walt Disney has something up his sleeve. He is a showman, after all, and a showman always keeps something clever in reserve. So when Walt—moustachioed, imper…

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Live on HowlRound TV: A Conversation With Luis Valdez, Founding Artistic Director Of El Teatro Campesino—Fri, June 7 by HowlRound

A Conversation With Luis Valdez, Founding Artistic Director Of El Teatro Campesino . This event will be livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7pm CDT (…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Establishing Latino Theater Alliances within Texas and Across the Nation—Fri, June 7 by HowlRound

Establishing Latino Theater Alliances within Texas and Across the Nation Watch this meeting live on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 2pm-4:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4pm-6:30pm CDT (Chicago…

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Live on HowlRound TV: The 2013 Theatre Communications Group National Conference, Dallas—Thurs, June 6 - Sat, June 8 by HowlRound

HowlRound TV will be livestreaming the following six events from the 2013 Theatre Communications Group (TCG) National Conference in Dallas, Texas. For real-time conversation, use Twitter has…

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On Teaching as Creative Practice by HowlRound

I wrote my first play under the guidance of Paula Vogel and Donna DiNovelli at Brown University. I’d been making plays as part of a collaborative ensemble with the Pig Iron Theatre Company…

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Interview with Kristina Wong by HowlRound

Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Kristina Wong: My best playwriting teacher has been trial by fire. Learning by doing has taught me everything. Most of my work is created…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks—The Public Theater, NYC—Wed, June 5 by HowlRound

You’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 11:32AM
Monday, June 3, 2013

Interview with Daniel Alexander Jones by HowlRound

Anne García-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Daniel Alexander Jones: Dr. Constance E. Berkley at Vassar; John Emigh and Aishah Rahman at Brown were great teachers. I apprenticed with…

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Weekly Howl on Thursday, June 6: Teaching & Learning Playwriting by HowlRound

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…

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Teaching Playwriting in the 21st Century by HowlRound

Every citizen has at least one dramatic arc that is her or his life. Some are so agitated by it that they care to write it as a play. Spoken text gets separated out from movement and action,…

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Friday, May 31, 2013

The Affects of Disability Portrayal and Inclusion in "soot and spit" by HowlRound

Listen, I’m not sure how to say this without sounding ignorant, so, toot toot, all aboard the self-immolation train: soot and spit kind of made me feel like I had autism. I entered the Gal…

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Dispatches from LALA Land: The Road to New Writing by HowlRound

It was a sunny day in May and LA Stage Alliance was hosting LA Stage Day, a gathering of Los Angeles theater folk centered around inspirational presentations, workshops, and breakout session…

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Atlanta's Saiah seeks to transform the Great American Novel into the Great American Play by HowlRound

Can the Great American Novel become a great American play? When the novel is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , the answer would seemingly be a resounding, "No." All novels resist adaptation to s…

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Toward a Peaceful Theater by HowlRound

Ever since January of this year, NoPassport theater alliance and press in collaboration with twenty-six playwrights (twenty-four of which contributed plays, two of which contributed an essay…

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Surviving Rejection Season by HowlRound

Standing over a fifteen-foot birdie putt on the last hole of the 2008 US Open, Tiger Woods had to make it. If he made it he’d get into a playoff. If he missed, he was out. “I kept tellin…

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Postcards from Russia II: Yekaterinburg by HowlRound

Beyond the Capitals, a project of the Center for International Theater Development , aims to create meaningful encounters between new generations of theater animators in Russia and the Unite…

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Practical Applications of the Culture Coin by HowlRound

But once the Culture Coin bank opened, things began to change. Now the small companies could purchase things like goods and services in the cultural sector with Culture Coins, instead of cas…

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The Quotidian as Epic: VideoCabaret’s "War of 1812" by HowlRound

In the Canadian national mythology, the story of the War of 1812 is, as noted Canadian historian and author Pierre Berton once wrote, the story of “the war that Canada won, or to put it mo…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks—The Public Theater, NYC—Wed, May 29 by HowlRound

You’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. …

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Weekly Howl on Thursday, May 30: Culture Coin & the HowlRound Voting Surge! by HowlRound

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…

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Why the Crowd? Why a Culture Coin? by HowlRound

“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.” —Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road In 1990, I was organizing union farmworkers in Deland, Florida. I had just graduated with a maste…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic