Tuesday, February 20, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Claudia Orenstein of Hunter College introduces us to the art of tolpavakoothu, a shadow puppet tradition from Kerala, in southern India.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:09AMSunday, February 18, 2018
By Amelia Parenteau, Elise Vigier. An interview with Elise Vigier who adapted James Baldwin’s 1979 novel, Just Above My Head at the Maison des Arts de Creteil near Paris.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:11AMThursday, February 15, 2018
By Paul Gagliardi. An interview with Nancy Smith-Watson of Feast of Crispian and Tim Schleis, an army veteran and one of FOC’s actors.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:39AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
By David Valdes Greenwood. Playwright David Valdes Greenwood discusses the importance of writing more diverse and intersectional characters, and reflects on the conundrum of “color conscio…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:44AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
By Jen Gushue. Jen Gushue reflects on the visceral work of Irish playwright Enda Walsh.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:22PMMonday, February 12, 2018
By Zach Donovan. Zach Donovan addresses the shortcomings of nonprofit theatre, the glut of self production, and considers Pop Theatre as an alternative theatrical vehicle.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMSunday, February 11, 2018
By Matt DiCintio. For nearly two decades, I’ve evaluated scripts submitted to festivals and contests, grantmakers and literary offices. I’ve read for major regional theatres with the goa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThursday, February 8, 2018
By Alex Ates. Alex Ates looks at how the Free Southern Theater established a model of artmaking and activism in the South in the '60s and considers how the New South is primed for another ge…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reports on the accessibility panel at BroadwayCon, which explained the forthcoming changes aiming toward a future theatre seamlessly accessible for ever…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:12AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. David Nicol talks about his project to turn early modern theatre manager Philip Henslowe's "diary" into a daily blog.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMMonday, February 5, 2018
By Catherine Trieschmann. Playwright Catherine Trieschmann lists useful suggestions for giving feedback on new play analysis.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:30AMSunday, February 4, 2018
By Bob Martin. Bob Martin talks about Hurricane Gap Community Theater Institute in Kentucky, and how they're supporting an Appalachian grassroots theatre movement.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:11AMThursday, February 1, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell looks at six theatre pieces in January that used words in unorthodox ways—as gibberish, or out-of-sync with the action; some didn’t use words at all.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:27AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
By Mary Frances Noser. Emerson College student Mary Frances Noser reflects on a campus-wide teach-in about race.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
By Carey Purcell. Can friendships survive a separation in time, values, and life choices? Carey Purcell looks at the quiet questioning of the role of women in Sheila by The Associates.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:36PMSunday, January 28, 2018
By Travis Preston. Artistic Director Travis Preston on the cross-cultural collaboration of bringing Fantômas: Revenge of the Image from CalArts to the Wuzhen Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThursday, January 25, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reports on the Martin Segal Theatre Center's 2018 Theatre and Resistance Symposium, and lists ten things theatre community can do right now to make a ch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:18AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Christian DuComb of Colgate University joins us to talk about Philadelphia's Mummers Parade and how the figure of the "Mummers wench" has its roots in the history of b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
By Sam Ethan Rubin. Sam Ethan Rubin writes about being an actor on the autism spectrum.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AMMonday, January 22, 2018
By Bethany Hughes. Off the Rails , which was produced at OSF in October, shows how Native plays can include depictions or descriptions of Native history as an element of lived experience, no…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:05AMThursday, January 18, 2018
By Tanya Selvaratnam. Tanya Selvaratnam,a co-founder of The Federation—a coalition of artists and activists—discusses their Art Action Day on 20 January 2018.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:15PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain talks about her new documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart , which explores the life and work of playwright Lorraine Hansberry.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:35PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
By Nan Barnett. On the twentieth anniversary of its founding, Nan Barnett reflects on the National New Play Network’s growth, and discusses the organization’s impact.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:54AMSunday, January 14, 2018
By Jordan Schwartz. Jordan Schwartz, director of literary programs and outreach at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, discusses a project that originated at the Indiana Women’s Prison and cu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThursday, January 11, 2018
By Anchuli Felicia King. Anchuli Felicia King explores use of motion capture and the construction of an embodied and artificial Ariel in the RSC’s version of The Tempest .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:10AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Selena Couture and Dr. Alexander Dick discuss their new Broadview edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's landmark 1799 melodrama Pizarro
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:32AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
By David Dower, Jamie Gahlon, Vijay Mathew, Ramona Ostrowski, JD Stokely, Abigail Vega. HowlRound staff announce their new mission, vision, and values, and discuss how these changes will aff…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:13AMMonday, January 8, 2018
By Amelia Parenteau, Werewere Liking. An Interview with Werewere Liking founder of the Theatre Company Village Ki-Yi Mbock in Côte d’Ivoire.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AMSunday, January 7, 2018
By Heidi Coleman, Patrick Jagoda. For Orientation at the UChicago 2017, an alternate reality game was created by faculty, designers, and students that engaged social media, virtual reality a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThursday, January 4, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. This month Jonathan Mandell looks at A Room in India by French company Théâtre du Soleil, which considers the question ‘If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, wou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:23AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
By Holly L. Derr. Holly Derr interrogates greenturgy at OSF and how stories can be used to reconnect people to their physical world.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:17AM 
