Monday, May 27, 2013
“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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:15PMSunday, May 26, 2013
Imagine having a year of rehearsal and the hope of a five-year run. Imagine meeting one to three times a week to explore a classic text, or creating a new play and having months to hone it i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMSaturday, May 25, 2013
However, after some thought and post-panel vino, I realized my fatigue isn’t racial at all. It’s much more about ownership fatigue—a fatigue informed by holding up the conversation aro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:55AMFriday, May 24, 2013
The mission of the Great Plains Theatre Conference at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska is to enable playwrights and theater artists to share time, energy, and talent in the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:34PMPanglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents a livestreaming performance of Tori Keenan-Zelt’s new work The Egypt Play, or The Misses Blake on a Holiday Jihad . Watch it live…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:17AMThursday, May 23, 2013
We frequently heard people refer to it—often pejoratively—as a “museum city.” And perhaps, it seemed to us, the museum-like quality of the place did influence the work being made the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:48PMHelp co-create Culture Coin! Dear HowlRound reader: We’ve made it to the semi-finals in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual National Challenge ! To move forward to the finals we need your help. C…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:09AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Since the polls closed on election day, the fate of the Republican Party remains front-page news. “Demographics will doom Republican Party,” the Chicago Sun-Times blared the day after th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:21PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
What’s bubbling up under the sidewalk of the American theater? Shifting demographics. Institutional regional theaters cannot continue to program exclusively for an audience of white, baby …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMYou’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 02:31PMMonday, May 20, 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 02:38PMDramatists Guild of America presents Social Media from the Playwright’s Perspective. This event will be live on HowlRound TV on Tuesday, May 21 at 2:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4:30pm CDT (…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:52AMSunday, May 19, 2013
A. Rey Pamatmat: In the lobby for a production of my play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them I overheard a woman say, “This play would get done everywhere if the main characters weren’t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:48PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Note: I participate in the Creative Producers in Training program in the Office of the Arts at Emerson College . The program aims to build a cohort of creative producers through mentorship a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThursday, May 16, 2013
In his eagerness to cross genres, Byrne is like a much more talented, much less irritating James Franco. Conceptual art is best left to the professionals, but rock is Byrne's beat, and Here …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PMI remember sitting in a theater history course in college and my professor telling the story of Richard and Cuthbert Burbage tearing down The Theatre with the help of The Lord Chamberlin’s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:27PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
With Culture Coin, we aim to put the “equity” back into “sweat equity.” Who does the current arts economy serve? If the answer is: “just a few,” why don’t we, as culture worker…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:49PMOne of my all-time favorite play titles is Christopher Durang’s ‘dentity Crisis. It’s minimalist genius: the personal crisis, the dropped “I.” Well, it’s ‘dentity crisis time i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Though the integration of theater and performance work in journals like PAJ and TDR has ostensibly addressed the rift between these practices, we are still reluctant to regard performance ar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:02PMArena Stage presents the third annual Voices of Now Festival of new plays written and created by thirteen youth ensembles from the Washington DC metropolitan area. 175 artists, ages eleven t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:29AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Prior to the opening night performance of Beneatha’s Place by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, join CENTERSTAGE from Baltimore for a discussion with playwrights on “Expanding the Afri…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:00PMA Conversation With Bartlett Sher co - hosted by Dramatists Guild of America and Harvardwood will livestream on HowlRound TV on Thursday, May 16 at 3:30pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30pm CDT (Aus…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:11PMYou’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 12:17PMThe 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 10:52AMSunday, May 12, 2013
I have spent my professional life in intersections of the commercial and not-for-profit theater. I started work in the mid-seventies when the not-for-profit theater and the commercial theate…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:19PMFriday, May 10, 2013
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep’em coming—write to me at [email protected] . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, I need some help. I am a theater maker running a sm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMThursday, May 9, 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 04:52PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
What’s complicated…is the underlying assumption about the role of theater in society—that theater is an art form that can affect people’s lives. Michael says he considers Cornerstone…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:22PMTennessee Rep in Nashville presents the Ingram New Works Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV at Saturday, May 11 through Tuesday, May 14. The Ingram New Works Project was created by Tenne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:31PMFlorida Studio Theatre in Sarasota presents the annual Young Playwrights Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, May 11. This event is the culmination of Florida Studio Theatre's…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:22AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Like most critics I’m sure, I think of myself as open-minded; in my more prideful moments, I even call myself a champion of the little-known. But one recent show, Theatre Rhino’s A Lady …
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