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By Todd London. Your experiment"these three-year residencies"is part of a fix"a fix made necessary by the unintended consequences of good intentions. Our young theaters, brave and optimistic…
By Yussef El Guindi. It was instructive to watch the same comedy handled by different casts and directors, each offering different rhythms and approaches to the same comic beats. It is start…
By Brendan McCall. While I was reaping the benefits of working internationally, my Belarusian friends were living as a theater company in exile. What could I do to help make a difference? Wh…
By HowlRound TV. Lark Play Development Center in New York City presents "Meet the Writers", the public kick-off event of the 21st Annual Playwrights' Week. Meet the seven writers"Mando Alvar…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents the panel discussion "Writing for Disability" on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tue…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "The World of Extreme Happiness". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons…
By Derek Goldman. The project speaks deeply to us both because of its extraordinary artistic merit and because we feel that the voices of these women, and by extension the voices of over two…
By Jonathan Mandell. "I want to reinvigorate the idea of this neighborhood being a destination for theater," David Van Asselt, artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, told me l…
By Anne Towns. Accurately describing what Collision means to the young men and women who participate each summer is challenging. Part coming-of-age experience, part artistic awakening, part …
By Solimar Otero. Whether it is race, place, ethnicity, or personhood, Cuban and Cuban diasporic performances push the boundaries of linear logics of the body towards a tapestry of experient…
By HowlRound TV. The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and the Syria: The Trojan Women Project in Amman, Jordan present a livestreamin…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents "Spirit" by Bonnie Cullum and the VORTEX ensemble livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlr…
By HowlRound. This week's Twitter conversation topic is "Ferguson and What Can Artists Effectively Do In the Context of Social Justice Issues, Crises, & Conflicts?" and will be co-modera…
By HowlRound TV. The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, the Indian Law Resource Center, and the National Congress of American Indians present "Sliver of a Full Moon", a powerful ne…
By David Dudley. Since 1984, Steppenwolf Theatre Company has offered internships to students, graduates, and others to experience the inner workings of a professional theater from every angl…
By Talya Kingston. At this moment, the play transcended its story; the play was Scotland, and all of Scotland was the play... The climax of over seven hours of theater, this felt like the po…
By Zak Berkman. It is a thoughtful, celebratory, ambitious season, filled with giant heart and profound humor. Four new works. Three iconic classics. Two family productions. It is a season t…
By Deborah Zoe Laufer. What I imagine the greatest impact of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere was to "End Days" was the buzz, publicity, approval it got before it even st…
By Morgan Greene. When it was founded in 1969, Free Street Theater (FST) was one of Chicago's first racially integrated ensembles and since its inception has taken its art and activism to th…
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons in New York City presents the Bootycandy Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Mond…
By HowlRound TV. Oregon Shakespeare Festival's CultureFest presents a livestreaming conversation "Creating Inclusivity in the American Theatre: A Conversation with Carmen Morgan, Sarah Bella…
By Ira Gamerman. I feel fairly confident that if some sort of census was to be taken from the last decade of American theatermaking, counting up the total number of productions by playwright…
By Georgina Escobar. The problem with drinking too much coffee is that, eventually, the tolerance for the caffeine becomes counter-intuitive. And at that ungodly hour, on my way to JFK airpo…
By Todd London. There is so much to say about Kia, because Kia herself has so very much to say, and because what she says in her work is always so urgent, so vital. Because to fail to listen…
By Marisela Orta. There is so much that we, the new Latina/o playwrights, can learn from those who came before us. And if we as a cultural community are to keep working at diversifying the A…
