Thursday, October 16, 2014
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 04:58PMBy Jonathan Mandell. 1.) Never wait for permission to practice your art. You cannot wait to get a job to be an artist. 2.) Study your art. Never stop studying. 3.) Find a spiritual practice …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:55AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
By Andy Boyd. Tragedy arises not because of one character’s flaw, but because of the irresolvable clash of mutually exclusive value systems: family loyalty clashes with patriotism, sexual …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
By Evan Caccioppoli. It dawned on me that the message of {my lingerie play} is a message for the masses. I decided to do the public underground performance installations because they would b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:16PMBy Haley Honeman. How do we harness the power of arts to inscribe places with cultural value? How does that valuing affect the wellbeing of our communities? That day, many of us brought with…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:07AMMonday, October 13, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The Los Angeles Theatre Center in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) proudly present Encuentro 2014: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival livestreaming on t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:31PMBy Lavina Jadhwani. I offered to cut "Henry IV, Part One" down to ninety minutes, schedule two rehearsals and one performance, and find a part for anyone who wanted to participate. Eighteen …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:05AMSunday, October 12, 2014
By Robert O'Hara, Ronee Penoi. …my concerns were how much time would I have to be in residency in DC and will they allow me to continue my directing career. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it. …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:06PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
By Brian Herrera. Café Onda can’t make all our virtual dreams come true, but this space can celebrate the dynamic creativity and connectivity of Latina/o theatermakers as together we buil…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:13PMFriday, October 10, 2014
By Paula Donnelly. "California: The Tempest" is performing in ten communities around the state. Ten is a lot of towns: ten unique environments, climates, venues, population demographics, and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:39PMBy HowlRound TV. CultureHub presents "Staging the Network: A Discussion about Telecommunications for Performance" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV networ…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:59PMThursday, October 9, 2014
By Dara Weinberg. Many Polish theaters seek to explore Poland's diverse heritage or to connect with other cultures in Europe, but lack immediate access to a large multiethnic pool of actors.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:18PMBy Douglas Howe. It was clear from the first gathering on September 30, 2013 that this was not going to be your typical playwriting class. It was not about process, but ontology. It was spec…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:09PMBy Dani Snyder-Young. "All Our Tragic," adapted and directed by Sean Graney and produced by The Hypocrites at the Den Theatre in Chicago, features all thirty-two surviving Greek tragedies by…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:40AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
By Jane Jung. From the very beginning, there has been a struggle on the part of actors of Asian descent to assert their humanity in the face of a history and culture deeply entrenched in exo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:13PMBy Gayle Isa. I was inspired to believe in the power of the arts to mobilize people and sway emotions and opinions and build community in ways that petitions and protests couldn’t. I decid…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PMBy HowlRound TV. Linda Mary Montano appears as Mother Teresa for three nights of endurance performance at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas—livestreaming on the global, open source HowlRound TV …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:57PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
By Brighde Mullins. Andrei Belgrader directs this riveting, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking production of one of Beckett’s masterpieces. Playing a Beckett heroine is a departure fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMBy Mashuq Deen. Home is not a shared skin tone, language, religion, location, orientation, or political sensibility, though those all play a small role. It’s a sense of history, of being k…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:49AMMonday, October 6, 2014
By Mike Lew. I would posit that when it comes to writers of color, we’re being subjected to an anthropological gaze that places our plays under the context of “ethnic work,” some kind …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMSunday, October 5, 2014
By Victor Maog. In the recent review of Broadway and nonprofit theater by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Asian Americans were the only major minority group to have their num…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:51PMBy HowlRound TV. The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists and the Asian Arts Initiative presents the 2014 National Asian American Theater Conference & Festival in Philadep…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:51AMSaturday, October 4, 2014
By Steven Dietz. All theater is local. That is what is inspiring and instructive about the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, as opposed to the notion of a "national tour.” …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:09PMFriday, October 3, 2014
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Smell can instigate imagination because it sparks multiple visceral possibilities. Our brain takes in a smell, and connects it to a collage of memories logged from th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:19PMBy John Perrin Flynn. If we truly want Los Angeles theater to grow and provide more jobs that pay, let’s examine what that will take. Help from the unions is certainly part of it, but the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:04PMThursday, October 2, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. Most people these days understand intimacy to be: 1.) A euphemism for sex, 2.) A synonym for love, 3.) Physical closeness, 4.) Emotional closeness—or some combination …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:31AMBy Dámaso Rodriguez. In 1999, I arrived in LA in a Ryder truck with the contents of several friends’ apartments and the unit set for a play we had just successfully produced together in C…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
By Alan Berks. In Minnesota, your bank teller, plumber, and doctor all have opinions about whether they like the Guthrie Theater’s season. All of them may have seen your last Fringe show o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:45PMBy Ember Flynne, Michael Mucciolo. Circus artists Ember Flynne and Michael "Mooch" Mucciolo discuss their work as professional fire performers in Boston, and shed some light on what it takes…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:56PMBy Diana Wyenn. Truthfully, as a Los Angeles-based theater artist working almost entirely under the 99-seat agreement, at a certain point I just gave up on earning my Equity card, and the St…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:34PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
By Martha Steketee. He fought two guys; beat the crap out of them. And I looked around, and everybody had just stopped training.. And I thought: oh, my god, this is the show. There’s that …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM 
