2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Marcina Zaccaria. The Lincoln Center Festival is a breathtaking annual event which ran this year from July 7-August 16. From extraordinary Kabuki Theater to Russian ballet, the festival f…
By Melinda Lopez. I wrote this summer, but all channeled through the Lorca lens. Translating when you are sad, I can say, is a very good thing to do. You can experience wild creativity withi…
By Kimberly del Busto Ramirez. While "Hortensia's" sibling protagonists remain displaced, frozen in time, their limbo is markedly different than is typical for exiles. The characters share a…
By Sarah Ruhl, Polly Carl. Playwright Sarah Ruhl's collection of short essays is called "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, …
By Taylor Gruenloh. I'll always be fighting for my voice to be heard. That's why we need more eyewitness accounts. People saying I was there. I saw everything. I know the truth. And that'll …
By Claudia Alick, Danny Bryck, Mica Cole, Rebecca Martinez, Katy Rubin. The Ferguson Moment was born from the impulse of theater makers across the nation to spark and organize artistic respo…
By Tom Gibbons. The Playwrights, Rewrites, Multiple Productions Series is a weekly series of interviews examining the process of developing a new play through a National New Play Network Rol…
By Meropi Peponides. The book as a whole is a deeply moving, authentic, and relatable piece of writing. It begins by relating "The Panza Monologues" authors' personal and social history, and…
By Don McClendon, Jacqueline Thompson. On Sunday, August 24th at the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, St. Louis-based theater artists Jacqueline Thompson and Don McClendon participated…
By Lauren Ferebee. Over my time in Spartanburg, I learned firsthand that South Carolina is not a homogenous place. There are all kinds of people in South Carolina, people with voices and pow…
By Will Arbery. Miranda Wright doesn't want to be pegged " not yet. The theatrical environment that she's creating is both local and global"theater for a world that is simultaneously more co…
By HowlRound TV. The National Playwright Residency Program cohort meeting"a program funded and administered by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"will livestream on the global, commons-based pe…
By Jonathan Mandell. More than a decade ago, A.R. Gurney, who had written some forty plays over forty years, wondered whether he would be forced to retire. Now, at age eighty-three, Gurney h…
By Polly Carl, Michael Garcés. Polly Carl recently talked with Michael Garcés, artistic director of Cornerstone Theater, about their touring production "California: The Tempest", which rev…
By HowlRound TV. Miracle Theatre of Cornwall, United Kingdom presents a livestreaming performance of "The Tempest" on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlroun…
By Teresa Marrero. Latin Americans exposed to such trends bring a wider breadth of theater-going experiences than we are used to in the U.S. Latin American theater does not terminate at some…
By Eric Mayer-GarcÃa. "Dreaming in Cuban" is dedicated to performance as a way to evoke, remember, feel, create, long for, and traverse Cuba. The discussion in the blog series that follow…
By Trista Baldwin. There is no one producer. There is no one managing director. There is no Boss of Us. There is no shoulder to cry on. …Workhaus Collective has changed arms and legs, losi…
By Stephen Sachs. I remember very clearly when it suddenly hit me"that I could see it and experience it for myself"that the play would have a future life. And that happened because I was abl…
By David Dower. Today my guest is the inestimable Liz Lerman. Listeners may mostly be familiar with Liz through her Critical Response Process, which is in use around the world as a system fo…
By Isaac Rathbone, Cindy Rosenthal. Researching the war and the following years, the ripple effects of World War I impacted not just international politics, but everything from race relation…
By Kate Kremer. These observations suggest a change in focus beyond the shift from violation to invention. Whereas the old avant-garde was oriented toward an imagined future and engaged in a…
By Talya Kingston. As a visitor at the Edinburgh Fringe, I wondered: how do you tell a story when you don't yet know the ending? How could, and would, this dramatic moment be represented on …
By HowlRound TV. Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents Pop Up Theatre 2014, a 10-minute Play Festival, around the theme of "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" livestreami…
By DCW3, Alex Ates. The internet is the place where people everywhere can go to for information and watch art unfold in front of them. However, unlike Shakespeare's Globe, there are no groun…
