2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Victor Maog. In the recent review of Broadway and nonprofit theater by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Asian Americans were the only major minority group to have their num…
By HowlRound TV. The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists and the Asian Arts Initiative presents the 2014 National Asian American Theater Conference & Festival in Philadep…
By Steven Dietz. All theater is local. That is what is inspiring and instructive about the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, as opposed to the notion of a "national tour." In…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Smell can instigate imagination because it sparks multiple visceral possibilities. Our brain takes in a smell, and connects it to a collage of memories logged from th…
By John Perrin Flynn. If we truly want Los Angeles theater to grow and provide more jobs that pay, let's examine what that will take. Help from the unions is certainly part of it, but the id…
By Jonathan Mandell. Most people these days understand intimacy to be: 1.) A euphemism for sex, 2.) A synonym for love, 3.) Physical closeness, 4.) Emotional closeness"or some combination of…
By Dámaso Rodriguez. In 1999, I arrived in LA in a Ryder truck with the contents of several friends' apartments and the unit set for a play we had just successfully produced together in C…
By Alan Berks. In Minnesota, your bank teller, plumber, and doctor all have opinions about whether they like the Guthrie Theater's season. All of them may have seen your last Fringe show or …
By Ember Flynne, Michael Mucciolo. Circus artists Ember Flynne and Michael "Mooch" Mucciolo discuss their work as professional fire performers in Boston, and shed some light on what it takes…
By Diana Wyenn. Truthfully, as a Los Angeles-based theater artist working almost entirely under the 99-seat agreement, at a certain point I just gave up on earning my Equity card, and the St…
By Martha Steketee. He fought two guys; beat the crap out of them. And I looked around, and everybody had just stopped training.. And I thought: oh, my god, this is the show. There's that ma…
By Elizabeth Dwyer Sandlin, Amelia Ampuero. Albuquerque, New Mexico: We have a varied company, and we're always looking to put on kick ass plays. It's pretty cool that we have a company wher…
By Emma Wiseman. Today Westport has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the United States. A hedge fund responsible for $120 billion of the world's money is nestled in the woods there. In thi…
By HowlRound TV. The National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and the Spider Web Show present "From Where I Stand, A Forum of Perspectives on Canadian Theatre" livestreaming on the glob…
By Polly Carl, Gypsy Snider, Shana Carroll. When I was eighteen and deciding to do circus, I was involved in a form where you take a risk on a daily basis. I became a trapeze artist. I think…
By Steve Yockey. The nerves about future productions depending entirely on the success of this first one are wiped away. It just pushes all of the anxious noise into the background. A lot of…
By Tom Buderwitz. I could certainly choose not to work at a lot of small theaters. I could also try and negotiate higher rates. I have done both. But I like to work with good theater artists…
By Jorge Luis Morejón. Despite profound decentering from its source, Cuban theater has had a consistent representation in Miami. Mirrored by a repertoire of embodied theatrical practices,…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "Smokefall". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced …
By Stephen Quigley. After the play, I raised this question to my theater companions, and all tried to explain to me the obvious humor behind the song. I nodded my head…yes…I get it. Of c…
By Brighde Mullins. There were two modes of preparation for a soiled soul: one was to go to a sporting event and, by rooting for an athlete, profound and cleansing emotions would be activate…
By Douglas Clayton. The kind of open, honest, rough-and-tumble way that we often approach our art-making seems to be inhibited, or even actively stifled, when it comes to addressing larger i…
By HowlRound TV. Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania presents a new musicals talk-back livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround…
By Dani Snyder-Young. The expectations of audience behavior are different in park spaces than in formal theater spaces. Children can dip in and out of the performance, running off to play ne…
By Patricia Davis. All you have to do, for ten days, is look at beauty and create. If you need to talk your ideas through, you have a teacher available, ready to listen and help. If you want…
