Saturday, April 21, 2012
As we’re beginning to shape the language and vision for the new Center for Theater Commons at Emerson College, we’re thinking a lot about what we do and how we deliver it. Every platform…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:23AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
I’ve started to worry that we are making too much theater without attending to the notion that it’s a collaborative art form. For anyone who knows me, they know I talk a lot about Lynett…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:02PMMonday, January 2, 2012
Exactly a year ago I launched a new journal, HowlRound. This was a dream of mine, one I shared with David Dower in June of 2010 at the TCG Conference in Chicago. I was eating sea bass if I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
Exactly a year ago I launched a new journal, HowlRound. This was a dream of mine, one I shared with David Dower in June of 2010 at the TCG Conference in Chicago. I was eating sea bass if I r…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:15AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
But the “dark side” of the internship has taught me not to speak up or make independent decisions, and demanded my gratitude for the privilege of having my intelligence and labor exploit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:53PMSunday, December 18, 2011
we must be less precious about our theaters and much more visionary about the role that theater can play in making places that can change people’s lives.
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:26PMSunday, September 11, 2011
But when my role is producer I think I don't actually know where to stand. And I've been doing this for years! Where and how does the producer come into the creative process? When should I s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:07PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
Sean Daniels dishes on the role of the associate artistic director, legendary poker player Marc Masterson, and being the sheriff / Interim Artistic Director of Actors Theatre Louisville.
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:47PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
I could go on, but my point is that, while these pieces were elegantly made, filled with strong images, crisp performances, and precise detailing, none of them were using their design or the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:42PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
My observation of how opting out manifests in a lot of theaters results in what I would call the new culture wars. The young and savvy know how to send out the message of the organization. A…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:30PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
I first started looking at theater through the lens of Horton Hears A Who! at the 2006 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. I was sitting on stage moderating a discussion of Go Home Now by J…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:35PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Twenty-five hundred years ago in ancient Athens, theater shaped the body politic. It was a sacred space where commoners and leaders sat side by side and watched their most pressing national …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:08AMSunday, August 21, 2011
A few years back I was invited to take part in the launching of a new play development program and was paired with a fresh, young director. I was quite surprised as we talked about my play t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:48PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
How can those of us in the theater move beyond “excellence” and make a commitment to “awesomeness.”
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:40PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
It is a truism that all theater is collaborative; the community aspect is a huge reason why so many of us do it. But I often find myself facing the reality that a large segment of the instit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:51PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Sometimes even the American theater gets it right—as it did with August Wilson. Sometimes our community, our industry, overcomes its cowardice, its aversion to the new and unknown, its lov…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:24PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
The cliché goes that one must suffer for their art and, try as one might to bracket this observation as stereotype, it seems the creative process is fraught with emotional pain. As artists,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:00PMSunday, July 24, 2011
I have a theory about the social geekiness of theater artists. I think we act like working in the not-for-profit theater is simply an extension of the rehearsal room. We go to work like we�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:41PMTuesday, July 19, 2011
The theater needs to take you some place and give you an experience, an emotional experience that hopefully is also not mind numbing, but mind stimulating. It doesn’t mean it has to be int…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:02PMSaturday, July 16, 2011
About five years ago at an LMDA conference held in the Twin Cities, each conference member was, in a sentence, tasked to throw out into the room their “hot button” issue about the field-…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:38PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Why is it that we who wish to write this next wave of American theatrical masterpieces, are so desperate to get into grad school that we’ll cough up hundreds of dollars in application fees…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:07PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
Make it quick. Please. Let’s skip the intermission tonight. Shorten this performance if only by a single, dropped line. Let something unexpected happpen. Enter a character to remind me of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:09PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Jason Loewith Bio Page Margot: This might be a provocative question, but tell me why the American theater is still so New York-centric? Jason: Yes, that does provoke me, because I thi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:09PMSaturday, July 2, 2011
If so much about theater in the U.S.—including institutional missions and the processes by which we generate work—is antithetical to capitalism, why do so many theater artists and admini…
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