Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
I had been dreaming about Austin long before I met it. Austin was the Valentine you wish was in your class. The cool one, lean, long, with the shiny eyes, copper brown skin, silver smile, ra…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
We're lucky to live in Austin. We're lucky to live in a community that's creative and hard working and confident and intelligent. All this new work and all these open minds. We're lucky to l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMArtsEmerson , Boston is pleased to invite online viewers to watch a special Viewpoint Workshop led by SITI Company Member Leon Ingulsrud and that will include Emerson College students. You c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:42PMMonday, April 15, 2013
It is then the honorable responsibility of those theater makers most concerned with the cultural impact of digital media on our lives to live in the belly of the beast, to hammer out what th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMThe Dramatists Guild of America is thrilled to announce the fourth event in the new Conservatory series: a bookwriting seminar with celebrated librettist, and former Dramatists Guild preside…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PMWe’ve brought puppeteers from New York, Boston, California, and Chicago to present short works, and featured local companies The Hey Lollies and Private Lives Puppet Theatre. Glass Half Fu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:48PMWhether it’s the next hot band coming out of SXSW, a promising tech start-up, or the latest fusion cuisine, Austin has a love for creating and consuming the new. Less formal and more liber…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:28PMThe 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 12:00PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Because well, here's the thing—Austin isn’t a theater town. So why in the world would I recommend you move to Austin, or extended-visit Austin, or not leave Austin? Because Austin is a m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:52PMFriday, April 12, 2013
The Bottom Line: A theater's community extends further than its weekly payroll list—if your staff or leadership prey on artists using institutional access as cover, you've got a problem, a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:17PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Jody Christopherson: What sparked your interest in “geek” theater? Crystal Skillman : Geek theater, while a movement of its own, is something that is very personal to me. I was made fun …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:05PMArizona State University in Tempe's School of Theatre and Film presents the w orld premiere of soot and spit written by Charles Mee and directed by Kim Weild. Watch the livestreaming of the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
I was a theater critic for five years. Then I got better. Okay, that’s a cheap shot. The fact is, I’m thankful for my time as the lead theater critic for Seattle Weekly from 1995 to 2000…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, Tempe presents its third biennial symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking on Friday, April 12 a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMMonday, April 8, 2013
A few months ago we put out a call for Commons Producers to help us track the activities of the fourteen playwright residencies HowlRound is charged with documenting. The response was overwh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thursday, April 11…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSunday, April 7, 2013
This keynote address was delivered on March 25, 2013 at The Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op at University of Texas-Austin. Watch it here . There’ve been times in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Some thoughts on San Francisco-based Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Also. Prophetic movements are part of our marrow as Americans. We are the country of John Winthrop’s City upon the Hill, of…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMPanglossian Productions will present the second installment in its new Plays in Progress series: a live and on-line developmental reading of Steven Young’s new play, The King’s Face , ho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMThe NYT Critic Watch project was designed to gives us some numbers about modern theater criticism. We are awash in opinion, in curiosity, in hurt feelings, in hopes for a hit, and in the dua…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AMThursday, April 4, 2013
I get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
So have I got a job for you? You get paid next to nothing, but if you work hard for many years, refine your craft and get lucky, then you will still probably earn less than a first-year asso…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMWhile I was the theater critic for The Denver Post , I never quite understood the malicious glee so many seemed to be taking in the irreversible downward slide of the corporate newspaper ind…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays presents a livestreaming panel discussion Charting the Course: New Play Directors in Conversation . This panel will lives…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:31PMAsked to consider criticism in the American theater, my mind kept bouncing back to two distinct factors that it seems critics never mention. The fact that makers of the work may not pay cons…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Once, outside a performance, an actor/director/playwright (I’ll never tell who) approached me in a kind of passive-aggressive fervor. S/he began asking how I became a critic, what were my …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMOn Wednesday, April 3, there will be two events at Emerson College in Boston involving Suzan-Lori Parks. Both events will be livestreamed on the global, open-source, peer-produced #NEWPLAY T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMThe Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thursday, April 4 …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSunday, March 31, 2013
Say you walk out of the theater having seen a show you hated, that you experienced as an assault on your senses, a waste of your time, or both. Who can you tell about it? If you’re lucky e…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
There is nothing like an existential crisis to get one popping up with a newsroom like Engine31 . When arts journalists started losing their staff jobs by the bushel load (around fifty perce…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM 
