Thursday, February 7, 2013
Breaking String of Austin, Texas presents the New Russian Drama Festival, featuring: Strike: Two plays by Yury Klavdiev as well as a post-show discussion: “Klavdiev Performances in Rus…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:01PMJim Brown of the Actor’s Fund will speak about the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act—its implications for artists, arts businesses and arts not-for-profits as part of A…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:26PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Okay: I’m a self-proclaimed arthead with only the feeblest grasp of economics. But after several seasons planning artistic programming and then seeing how many patrons actually show up for…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThis is the second post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here. I want you to take a moment to think about the first moments of your …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:07AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater this spring for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The first …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:12PMMonday, February 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, February…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:18PMSunday, February 3, 2013
It is not enough to demand from the theater mere perceptions, mere images of reality. The theater must arouse our desire to perceive, it must organize the fun of changing reality. Our audien…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Robert Frost famously professed the benefits, when approaching a point of divergence in a journey, of taking the road “less traveled by.” Yet: I’ve found the travels that made all the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
We don’t look back in order to go back, but rather to better choose what going forward looks like…In this post-election bliss for many of us, it makes sense for us to consider why we val…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
When we started HowlRound a couple of years ago we intentionally avoided reviewing plays. We didn’t want theater artists to wake up in the morning to a bad review. And two years later, we …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMVictory Gardens Theater and League of Chicago Theatres host a town hall discussion entitled “Playing Race” livestreaming on the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Thursday, Jan…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:39PMGenerous Company in Baltimore, Maryland presents Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology. All six e…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:14PMMonday, January 28, 2013
I wrote a play called And Then Came Tango. A play inspired by true events. A play about penguins, love, family, and youth activism. A play that seeks to expand and deepen representation in t…
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, Januar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:09PMSunday, January 27, 2013
In the world of theater for young audiences, the ground is shifting under our feet: unstable and unfamiliar, far less funding, and the zeitgeist is way different than just a few years ago. A…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Rabbi Zusya of Tarnopol told his disciples, “In the world to come, they will not ask me, ‘Why weren’t you Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why weren’t you Zusya?’” I’m an old…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Last November, playwright Eliza Bent had a reading of her play The Hotel Colors at the Bushwick Starr. She felt good about the reading. She felt good about the play. And afterward, when she …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
This is the first post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. A Double Dog Dare Fresh off the boat from Raleigh, NC with no job prospects and the grand implosi…
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, Januar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThe Dramatists Guild, in association with Harvardwood, is pleased to present the first DG Academy event of 2013. This event will livestream for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project on Tuesd…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:28AMSunday, January 20, 2013
After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I felt like I’d felt after 9/11: grief stricken, traumatized and voiceless. In all the categories I fall in: woman, mother, playwright,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMSaturday, January 19, 2013
When preparing a pot of gumbo, one must start with the roux. Every good Louisianan knows this. The roux is the bone marrow that binds this body of savory goodness together. The rubber glue t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMDid you see me? Did you see how high I held my head? Did you see how I swayed back and forth with the wind? —Carmen Demourelle This refrain weaves in and out of a new work-in-progress perf…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFriday, January 18, 2013
A discussion on queer performance in New Orleans requires one understanding: “We are not talking about who you fuck,” as Senora Grayson stated. Grayson along with everyone interviewed fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMCarol Bebelle is a native New Orleanian and a proud product of the New Orleans Public School System. She has more than twenty years experience in the public sector as an administrator and pl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThursday, January 17, 2013
More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hatefu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe One-Minute Play Festival and Passage Theatre present: The 3rd Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV Sunday, January 20 at 4pm PST (San Francisco) / 6p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
First, a personal story: Last year in March I was in tech for Kiss Kiss Julie, ArtSpot Productions latest devised work for which I provided text, outdoors at the Joan Mitchell Center on Bayo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMWe have had a hell of a wild year at Southern Rep Theatre: In January 2012 we lost our venue when our lease wasn’t renewed after nineteen years, our budget cuts caused by the loss of venue…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
It’s hard to pin down why over twenty young theatrical ensembles have formed in New Orleans since 2006, still stand, and are growing when there is exceptionally little money, venue, educat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMTune in this Friday through Sunday to get a glimpse of the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ MicroFest USA: New Orleans, live on #NEWPLAY TV! Since Katrina, much has happened in New Orlea…
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