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Friday, October 31, 2014

Auto-Cours at Art School: A Foundation of Devising Original Work in an Ensemble by HowlRound

By David Taft, John Kendall Wilson. With no assistance from outside their group, several student performance groups devise their own work as a solution to the posted problem. The problem is …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:35PM
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Livestreaming Network of Ensemble Theaters' Intersection: Ensembles + Universities—Fri, Oct 31-Sun, Nov 2 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. The Network of Ensemble Theaters presents Intersection: Ensembles + Universities livestreaming from LaMama and New School University in New York City on the global, commons-…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:02PM

Interweaving Theory and Practice: the Post Natyam Collective's Web-based Collaborative Process by HowlRound

By Cynthia Ling Lee. Over the past seven years, the Post Natyam Collective’s creative practice has transitioned from in-person collaboration to web-based collaboration. Often our process i…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:51PM

Fighting for Love: John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Nuyorican Poets Café by HowlRound

By Emma Wiseman. Founded in 1973 by a group of poets, playwrights, and musicians of color whose work was underrepresented in the mainstream arts community of New York City, the Nuyorican Poe…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:45PM

Notes from the Latino American Underground by HowlRound

By Julián J. Mesri. The painful step, though, is realizing that to exorcise those demons is to perhaps challenge the very notion of an identity. Perhaps the solution is to do away with tryi…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:44PM
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Boston Theater Board Leaders Forum by HowlRound

By Joan Lancourt. Having been an executive coach in a Kennedy School Executive Development program, I had found the Chait, Ryan and Taylor "Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of No…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:44PM

Creating Cultures: Double Edge on University Campuses by HowlRound

By Matthew Glassman. What we really needed—and received—was a place to develop an unfinished work in a professional touring locale with Chicago audiences, and to prototype a student chor…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:16PM
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Livestreaming panel: Emerging Writers and Harold Pinter’s Legacy: A Conversation—Fri, Oct 31 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Theater Emory, the professional producing organization of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, presents a panel discussion on Harold Pinter in conversation with contemporar…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:51PM

Citizen Theater: Anne Hamburger on Basetrack Live by HowlRound

By Bertie Ferdman. I made the show to bring people who have served together with people who know nothing about war, beyond what they read in the papers. What we wanted to do with "Basetrack …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:43AM

Twitter: Unite a la conversación de #newplay este jueves en español! Tema: Diferencias culturales y de idioma en teatro—Thurs, Oct 30 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation will be in Spanish and topic is: "Diferencias culturales y de idioma en teatro" This conversation will be moderated by Inés Gubba-Tejeira @Ineika—wh…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:52AM
Monday, October 27, 2014

Cafesito: Tony Garcia & Su Teatro by HowlRound

By Marisela Orta, Tony Garcia. There is a very gentle story at heart about a boy who wants his mother. We all feel that separation; we all want to return to that place in our lives where our…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:32PM
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Unlocking the Mystery of Writing a Musical: A Conversation with Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould by HowlRound

By Polly Carl, Carson Kreitzer, Matt Gould. Recently, I spent two days in a convening learning, among other things, about the partnership between Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould. I was enchan…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:30AM

On Immersive Theater: The Senses to Take the Wall Down—Part 4: The Gentle Touch of Fantasy by HowlRound

By Mikhael Tara Garver. Touch has an important place in open-frame work. It is our most powerful resource—but we must craft it with the care we craft each other element. In fact, with more…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:00AM
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Trucks, Country Music, and Class by HowlRound

By Basil Kreimendahl. I don’t want to write an article about how we don’t see enough of a certain kind of people on stage. We are all working within an unfortunate system that, for the m…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:11AM
Friday, October 24, 2014

Live Webcast & Twitter Discussions for Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place—#PerformPlace—Mon, Nov 3 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with support from ArtPlace America, is hosting a convening that examines how performance-based organizations, and the artists they en…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:04PM

Queering The Room: Some Beginning Notions For A Queer Directing Practice by HowlRound

By Will Davis. This method of working through the unknown and working with a bit of grace with the imperfect is the only way I have managed to arrive at a sense of self in my life. I’ve ha…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PM
Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Trans Artistic Body by HowlRound

By Polly Carl. I’m at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the women’s restroom washing my hands. A woman walks in, “I must be in the wrong place,” she says and walks out. Then she…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AM

Mu Performing Arts' Lost and Found Middle Brother by HowlRound

By Chris Garza. The night I saw the show, members of Gazillion Voices, a magazine for adoptees, were also in attendance. At the talk back, a Korean adoptee in the audience revealed, "I didn�…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:59AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Just Say Yes by HowlRound

By Annie Danger. …you begin with hope. Not dependence on false hopes. Not faith in some distant heaven. But real, hard, daily belief that we can make the drastic, bone-deep changes necessa…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:19PM

Going In: Gender Discovery Through Performance by HowlRound

By Dominic Bradley. I gravitated towards performance art. Many questions emerged from my practice. What am I on fire to do? What gender(s) can I explore? Where is the niche for performers li…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:44PM

Your Guide to Theater Education: The Theatre School at DePaul University by HowlRound

By David Dudley, John Culbert. The Theatre School at DePaul University has been around for a long time. It's no wonder, given that they offer degree programs in nearly every discipline one c…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:42PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The Adventures of a Male-Bodied Transwoman in Drama School by HowlRound

By Bianca Leigh. I was often cast in small roles or the chorus. I learned to watch and listen. Creating a point of view about everything that happens onstage—even when I didn’t have a si…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:22PM

Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival: A Big Little Festival by HowlRound

By Martha Steketee. There are many theater festivals and conferences that select participants and winners carefully behind closed doors. Some of these programs have public performances, and …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:14AM

Livestreaming a Staged Reading of Flight by Patrick Gabridge—Liminal Space, London, #newplay—Mon, Oct 27 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space Productions in London presents a staged reading of "Flight" by Boston-based writer Patrick Gabridge on Monday, October 27 at 7:30pm GMT (London) / 3:30pm EDT (…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:36AM
Monday, October 20, 2014

Not Here for the Bard: Candor from a Shakespeare Detractor by HowlRound

By Azure D. Osborne-Lee. Imagine, if you will, a slumber party. A group of tweens huddles around a television in the carpeted family room of a two-story house. Most of them stare, mouths sli…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:21PM

Livestreaming The Mirror up to Nature: Reflecting the Environment in Designs, Maps, and Theater—CultureHub, NYC—#newplay—Sun, Oct 26 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. How do different creative disciplines construct a narrative around ecology and environmentalism? CultureHub in New York City presents the discussion "The Mirror up to Nature…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:20PM
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Beyond Cool: Moving Towards True Trans Visibility by HowlRound

By MJ Kaufman. I hear in theater constantly: a talented artist can write or act anything. Suggesting that an artist can only express their lived experience is limiting. While a cisgender wri…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:38AM
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Devising the New Avant-garde—Part 2: The Renaissance Kid and the Open Play by HowlRound

By Kate Kremer. The rise of artistic multi-functionalism, and the open, assimilative, and collaborative values it implies, has coincided with the emergence of devising as a major theatrical …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:29AM
Friday, October 17, 2014

Participate in The Latina/o Theatre Commons Second National Convening Nov. 6-9 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center's Encuentro 2014 by HowlRound

By Café Onda. The 2014 Latina/o Theatre Commons Second National Convening at Los Angeles Theatre Center's Encuentro 2014 runs November 6-9, 2014 and is open to all theatermakers, artists, s…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:27PM

Archiving the Past, Present, and Future of Teatro by HowlRound

By Trevor Boffone. My experiences doing archival research in Austin led me to question the current state of Latina/o theater and the growing need not only to return to the archives to learn …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:29PM
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Script Analysis: No Screaming Matches, No Riot Police by HowlRound

By Julie Rada. When we teach, how do we discuss something truly important? Specifically, how could I talk about the murder of an unarmed black man the same age as my students? What is taught…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic