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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Power and Humiliation in the Theatre: Reflections Post-Harvey Weinstein by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Lydia Stryk. Lydia Stryk adds to the conversation on sexual harassment by people in power, speaking up about her experiences with sexual harassment and humiliation in the theatre.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Monday, November 13, 2017

Encuentro de las Américas Manifesto / El manifiesto del Encuentro de las Américas  by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Jose Luis Valenzuela. Jose Luis Valenzuela delivers an Encuentro de las Américas Manifesto as a part of the 2017 Latinx Theatre Commons International Convening in Los Angeles, California.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Why Would We Move? Musings on Movement Practice and Training by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Yo-EL Cassell. Movement director and professor Yo-El Cassell reflects on how movement should help people access playfulness and joy, regardless of ability.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

It Starts in the Classroom: Approaching Gender Parity through Actor Training by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Katherine McGerr. What are female acting students learning in the classroom? Educator and director Katherine McGerr discusses how gender parity in theatre starts in the classroom.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Theatre History Podcast #49: Dr. Erin Mee on Modern and Contemporary Indian Theatre by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Michael Lueger. Dr. Erin Mee of New York University joins us for the second part of our series on Indian theatre. In this episode, she explains how modern Indian theatre developed in the …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:28AM

Theatre-ing While Disabled—Audience Edition by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Kate Langsdorf. Kate Langsdorf finishes the series by reflecting on her experience attending different shows as an audience member in Los Angeles, California.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:49AM
Monday, November 6, 2017

The New Theatre Season in Germany: Occupation and Immersion by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Thomas Schmidt. Thomas Schmidt talks about the recent protest at the Berlin Volksbühne over the change of leadership and immersive theatre in Germany.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:44AM
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Williams and Shakespeare: The 12th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Derek McCormack. On a dark and stormy night, individuals sporting full-body ponchos and broken umbrellas traverse to the far edge of a wizened wharf. A wharf unpretentiously covered with …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

When the Playwright Has an Agenda by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell takes on two recent plays based on real events, considering productions of Ferguson and The Siege .

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:30AM
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Beyond Demographics: A Different Approach to Segmenting Audiences by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Meghan Randolph. In a second installment about results of a survey of theatregoers to consider best practices to market lesser-known plays, Meghan Randolph discovers commonly held assumpt…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Theatre History Podcast #48: Episode 48: Learning About Kutiyattam with Dr. Erin Mee by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Michael Lueger. Dr. Erin Mee of New York University joins us to discuss kutiyattam, a style of theatre from southwestern India that brings ancient Sanskrit dramas to life.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:41AM
Monday, October 30, 2017

My Gender is Hot Fire: The Birth of the Non-Binary Monologues Project by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By K. Woodzick. K. Woodzick talks about creating The Non-Binary Monologues Project, and the need for more resources for non-binary theatremakers.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Love and Information at Aquinas College by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Randy Wyatt. Randy Wyatt examines how Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, explored the question of mounting contemporary work in a diverse world with limited resources and within a…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM
Friday, October 27, 2017

The Art of Listening Is Political by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Brendan McCall. In the fifth installment of this series, Brendan McCall reflects on the work of Norwegian American vocalist Kristin Norderval, and how her art transforms listening into a …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:04AM
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Black and Blue: Dramatizing the Life of a Pioneering Policewoman by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Jim O'Quinn. Theatre journalist Jim O’Quinn writes about eighty-three year old Yvonne Bechet, whose life and work inspired a new play about policing and racial justice in her homet…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Chronic Theatremakers: The Importance of Social Goods and Sharing Your Story by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Sara Brookner, Trip Venturella. Dramaturg Sara Brookner interviews playwright Trip Venturella about his experiences as a theatremaker with epilepsy.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Sabine Women, Satire, and What Is Truly “Daring?” by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Cassidy Dawn Graves. Is sexual assault a daring subject for satire? Cassidy Dawn Graves considers Michael Yates Crowley’s The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias and how sati…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:28AM
Monday, October 23, 2017

Theatre History Podcast #47: Translating An Enemy of the People with Dr. Paul Walsh by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Michael Lueger. Dr. Paul Walsh of the Yale School of Drama joins us to discuss his work translating Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People for the opening production of the Yale Repertory …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:51AM
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Business per Usual: Enterprise by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Amy Brady. Enterprise is a satire of American business-speak that is also a critique of capitalism.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Friday, October 20, 2017

Bodies on the Edge: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya’s Becoming Pentalogy by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Ivan Talijancic, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer Ivan Talijancic interviews New York based duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya about LEIMAY…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:35AM
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Dragon Lady: One Mother of a Musical by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Manuel R. Cawaling, Erin Murray. Dragon Lady, written and performed by Sara Porkalob, brings bring race, female stories, and intersectionality into the American theatre conversation.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:31AM
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Welcome to the Catalan Republic: Street Theatre and Protests in Barcelona by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Alícia Hernàndez Grande. Alícia Hernàndez Grande writes about the theatrical street protests that have been staged since 2012 around the Catalonia independence referendum vote, includ…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:49AM
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Building Better Theatres: Success and Debriefs in America by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Michael DeWhatley. Michael DeWhatley talks to several theatres, including Trinity Rep and the Guthrie, about how they define success and the benefits of a feedback process for talking abo…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AM
Monday, October 16, 2017

After/Life: Detroiters Tell the Untold Stories of the ’67 Rebellion by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Kristin Horton, Lisa Biggs. Playwright Lisa Biggs and director Kristin Horton discuss the process of developing After/Life , a new play about the 1967 Rebellion in Detroit, Michigan with …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:07AM
Thursday, October 12, 2017

A Chicana Heroine Redirects El Movimiento by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Marci R. McMahon. Marci McMahon reflects on how Diane Rodriguez’s The Sweetheart Deal breaks gendered stereotypes about the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Getting Serious about Promoting Plays by Women by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Michael Wright. Michael Wright discusses how his playwriting residency program WomenWorks is helping tackle the underrepresentation of female playwrights in the US.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:26AM
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

A Brazilian Coriolanus in the Age of CEO-Politician Heroes by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Eduardo Campos Lima. What is the significance of staging Coriolanus in Sao Paulo where the new mayor is a businessman who was the host of two seasons of the Brazilian version of TV show T…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:59AM
Monday, October 9, 2017

Designer as Playwright, Images as Text: Expanding Meanings and Breaking Boundaries with Deb Sivigny by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Annalisa Dias, Deb Sivigny. DC based playwright Annalisa Dias interviews fellow The Welders collective member Deb Sivigny on the world premiere of her new play, Hello My Name Is....

SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Contemporary Ethnographic Performance Methodologies by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Alej Bustillos, Jr.. Alej Bustillos, Jr. discusses documenting and translating his lived experience in the field of theatre arts and performance studies by referencing scholars in the fie…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Caregivers on Stage: Mary Jane, The Treasurer, The Cost of Living by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell looks at three plays about caregiving on stage recently in New York.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:41PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Announcing the HowlRound Challenge Convenings by [email protected] (jdstokely)

By HowlRound. HowlRound announces the four selected convening proposals for the HowlRound Challenge, a new initiative to incubate ideas and seed action to make a better theatre and a better …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:50AM

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