Tuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMI was in search of a place where I would be surrounded by nurturing and supportive women where together we could create and share our stories free of fear and judgement. When I could not fin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:15AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Ah, but once that inner censor/critic gets going, it can be pretty hard to shut him down. And that’s when being a playwright feels the loneliest. Because once that dragon of insecurity (as…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMThe 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 10:47AMSunday, May 5, 2013
The women write, they write ferociously, they write what they’re feeling—they’re doing their part. And through us, they do get a chance to submit to festivals, they stay on top of what…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:49PMThursday, May 2, 2013
The Wild Plan was founded in the summer of 2011 by Eric Powell Holm and myself. From the very beginning, when Eric and I set out to devise our next round of projects, we often conceptualized…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:56PMI’m currently less than a week away from one of the biggest opportunities of my career as a young actor. As a recent graduate from one of the top MFA programs in our country, I’m now pre…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Participation is the core of social media. Individuals share, like, pin, drop hashtags and handles, and otherwise create virtual word-of-mouth. As theaters like New Paradise Laboratories, Ne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
“How many of you have ever used the n-word?” asked Shá Cage at the informal talkback after her show to which a few people raised their hands. “How many of you have never used the n-wo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMWhat do Mike Daisey, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Palin have in common? Each has bent history’s facts to serve their dramatic needs. For that matter, nearly every playwright—and politician—…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:19PMMonday, April 29, 2013
In March, HowlRound hosted the first cohort meeting for the Mellon Foundation's playwright residencies . While we had folks in Boston, we decided to ask some of them just how their particula…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMThe 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 12:38PMSunday, April 28, 2013
This focus on the business of running institutional theaters, and the attendant administrative impulses towards standardization and optimization, tend to flatten the diversity of structures …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:44PMWe always remember “where we were” when tragic news is delivered. When the two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15th, I was at a play. I was at Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMSaturday, April 27, 2013
This post is the fourteenth column 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 a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMFriday, April 26, 2013
I open with two examples—let’s call them “behind-the-scenes snapshots” for dramatic purposes—from the devising frontlines of dog & pony dc, the ensemble company I co-lead. Shor…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Here is grand spectacle on a limited budget, a few seconds of gravity-defying joy tempered by the moment of terror experienced as the characters fall. It is everything that is wonderful abou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:22PMOne of my strongest motivators for choosing theater was my heartfelt belief that the theater business was one in which your gender, look, sexual preference, ethnicity, religion, and politica…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
“A gorgeous, great play. American theater at its most engaging.” Could a producer invent a more perfect pull-quote?...Funny thing is, the line...comes from a review of another production…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:28PMHere’s the thing—theater should lead culture, not follow it. If the theater we are making today solely reflects society, then we’re failing it. We are not a mirror, we are a lens. We s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:25PMSouth Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California presents a new addition to the 16th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival : a playwrights' panel delving into the question “Why this play, now…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:03PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
…in the post-performance talkback I attended, an audience member asked actor Jonathan Majors if he would take off his shirt again. This audience member viewed the actor’s body, like his …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMLauren Gunderson: Do you think about gender parity when writing a new play? Lydia Diamond: I don’t really. I take it for granted that I have a sort of built-in consciousness around gender,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:25PMYou’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 10:45AMMonday, April 22, 2013
This latest push for parity for female writers (and directors, designers, choreographers, and actors for that matte) began for me in 2001 with Susan Jonas and the NYSCA study . I remember ho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe 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.* Join us Thursd…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:15AMSunday, April 21, 2013
Brad : Gender parity and other kinds of diversity issues seem to be so front - burner right now, but it’s not like people haven’t been thinking and talking and writing about this for a l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe day after Christmas, I sat in our organization’s closed offices with Cindy Im, Theatre Bay Area’s development manager, to go over some upcoming grant proposals. The rest of the staff…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
A couple of months ago we announced that we would add criticism to the HowlRound site. The idea met with both great enthusiasm and deep skepticism. We expected this. When we originally discu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, April 19, 2013
You can’t be in Austin very long without hearing someone wax lyrical about the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you’re not familiar with that legendary venue, just know that the grandios…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:23PMThursday, April 18, 2013
I’m going to take the precarious position that, as designers, what we put on stage in front of an audience should never be an apology. Why should lack of resources become an excuse for sho…
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