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 …
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-…
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 is …
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…
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 tr…
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…
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 chorus t…
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…
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 …
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"who …
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…
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…
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 c…
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 most …
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…
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 had …
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 walks b…
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'…
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…
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…
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…
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 single…
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 …
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 (…
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…