Saturday, March 16, 2013
This list of eighty-seven black theaters has been compiled with the help of Michael Dinwiddie (Black Theatre Network), Jonathan McCrory , ( HowlRound Series Curator) Beth Turner (Editor/Publ…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:30PMThis list of eighty-seven black theaters has been compiled with the help of Michael Dinwiddie (Black Theatre Network), Jonathan McCrory, (HowlRound Series Curator) Beth Turner (Editor/Publis…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMThe Robey Theatre Company, founded in 1994 by Danny Glover and I, is committed to developing, exploring, and producing plays written about the global black experience and reinterpreting blac…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Black theater institutions today require unique and ongoing support for their vitality, legacy, and agency. These institutions, like The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, not only make important …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM“The priest departs. The divine artist arrives.” —Walt Whitman In the vibrant bacchanal that exists under the rubric “theater,” I have lived many lives: actor, director, musician…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThursday, March 14, 2013
“If you know the beginning well, the end will not trouble you” —African Proverb To write about the vitality and agency of the state of black theater is quite a task because I find no u…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThis recording from January 2010′s Black Playwrights’ Convening starts with a reading performed by Jennifer L. Nelson of “New Black Math” by Suzan-Lori Parks. You can…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:25PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Black theater is my life. I am the managing producer of MPAACT (Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theater), a company that solely produces new work by playwrights of the Afr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the peer-produced, open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:17AMIndependent producers Jiles King, Jonathan McCrory, and Anthony McDonald met with Broadway producer Ron Simons, to talk about black theater on Broadway. Anthony McDonald: What is your defini…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
I have worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than twenty years. I am currently an Artistic Associate at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) and work as the Marketing Director for B…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:31PMPanglossian Productions will present the first installation of its new Plays in Progress series: alive and on-line developmental reading of Elford Alley’s new play In Search of the Amh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMMonday, March 11, 2013
March finds the artistic and administrative team at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota focusing on two objectives: one is celebrating the power of art to sustain and uplift cult…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMAt The Hansberry Project, we present the work of Black playwrights. We produce Black plays. We produce Black plays because we believe that black theater artists—artfully expressing their o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMSunday, March 10, 2013
Throughout the history of American theater, the desire for a separate Black theater tradition has raised challenges and contradictions. Over the past decade, as many Black Theater institutio…
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, March 14…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:34PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” —Attributed to George Eliot When I first read these oft-cited words, I was twenty-two and wanted to be a fiction writer. Headlinin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the peer-produced, open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
This is the first in a series of blogs that will chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMSleeping Weazel in Boston is celebrating Women’s History Month with Women In Action: a new wave of art, theatre, music, and performance, a four-day event beginning with a public discussi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:35PMMonday, March 4, 2013
The 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, March 7 …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:34PMThe first thing I noticed when I visited at SPACE on Ryder Farm is the quiet. It’s quiet at SPACE on Ryder Farm. You could spend all day writing in the gazebo, and the only sound you’d h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:41AMSunday, March 3, 2013
A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. The historical moment of the disciplines was the moment when an art of a human body was born, which was directed not …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMFriday, March 1, 2013
In college, I found myself not getting cast in many plays, so I decided to produce my own. At the time I was taking a required Directing course, so to fulfill the credit my friend and I prod…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:27PMThursday, February 28, 2013
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of the next…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThese are particularly tough times for live theater; even John Moore says it in a recent post: Live Theater Ranks Among 10 Worst Industries for 2013 (and he was named one of the twelve most …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Somewhere along the way, American higher education picked up the duty of professional preparation. The Jeffersonian ideal of the liberal arts education as an end in itself, an inherent good,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMFirst off, a huge thank you to everyone who applied to write for our NewCrit initiative. We have been impressed by the quality of applicants from Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
It has been fifteen years, two published versions, five translations, innumerable productions and tours both nationally and internationally, since the first production of Joe Calarco’s rad…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe One-Minute Play Festival and Mixed Blood Theatre Present: The 1st Minneapolis One-Minute Play Festival at Mixed Blood Theatre This event will livestream for the open source #NEWPLAY TV p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:12PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The third of thirt…
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