By HowlRound TV. How do different creative disciplines construct a narrative around ecology and environmentalism? CultureHub in New York City presents the discussion "The Mirror up to Nature…
By MJ Kaufman. I hear in theater constantly: a talented artist can write or act anything. Suggesting that an artist can only express their lived experience is limiting. While a cisgender wri…
By Kate Kremer. The rise of artistic multi-functionalism, and the open, assimilative, and collaborative values it implies, has coincided with the emergence of devising as a major theatrical …
By Café Onda. The 2014 Latina/o Theatre Commons Second National Convening at Los Angeles Theatre Center's Encuentro 2014 runs November 6-9, 2014 and is open to all theatermakers, artists, s…
By Trevor Boffone. My experiences doing archival research in Austin led me to question the current state of Latina/o theater and the growing need not only to return to the archives to learn …
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…
By 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 …
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 gr…
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…
By 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…
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…
By 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 …
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. So…
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 build …
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…
By HowlRound TV. CultureHub presents "Staging the Network: A Discussion about Telecommunications for Performance" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV networ…
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.…
By 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…
By 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…
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…
By 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 decided…
By 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 ne…
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 for …
By 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 kno…
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 of cat…