2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Polly Carl. I'm not sure the "I'm so busy" problem is unique to theater, but I personally find it a maddening part of institutional theater culture. Everyone is simply too busy to find ti…
By Greg Redlawsk. "Paying your dues""it's a pervasive refrain, and one that clearly lives deeply within us; it has gotten under our skin and through our veins. I can't help but think that it…
By Lauren Gunderson. 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 Networ…
By Stephan Wolfert. Consider Richmond's orations to his soldiers in Richard III, Act V, Scenes 3 and 5, and how they bear a striking resemblance to presidential speeches delivered over the l…
By Chantal Rodriguez, Jose Luis Valenzuela. The Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC) in downtown Los Angeles is looking for ten arts leaders of various backgrounds who represent the future lead…
By Jonathan Mandell. The man in the penguin suit hands me the postcard advertising his fringe show and makes exactly the right pitch"I'm sold. His is one of those I have decided to see out o…
By Noe Montez. Pre-conference attendees made their way to Scottsdale, Arizona via bus, through a carefully planned route that covered important sites connected to SB 1070, labor history, and…
By Hayley Finn, Aditi Kapil, Jack Reuler. Hayley Finn talks with Aditi Kapil, Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Mixed Blood Theater, and Jack Reuler, Mixed Blood's Artistic Director, to disc…
By Café Onda. To understand the deep impact Latina/o artists have had in our collective history, it is crucial to discuss the varied artistic expressions that exist within the polycultural …
By Martha Steketee. We rise and thrive together, or we all sink. So finding those people who you trust to tell you the truth even if it's ugly, those people that you can call even when you'r…
By Anne Towns. This season, Atlanta's Alliance Theatre will present a twentieth anniversary production of "Blues for an Alabama Sky" by playwright in residence Pearl Cleage. The Alliance pre…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Carmen Morgan. Much is happening in the arts community today"and with black theaters, even more so. Black theaters continue to question their relevancy amidst changing demographics that a…
By HowlRound TV. The National Black Theatre will broadcast their Public Summit, Is Black Theatre Sustainable?: From Sustainability to Collectivity, on Thursday, August 7th at 7-8:30pm EST li…
By Nancy Garcia Loza. The ALTA Unified General Auditions reminded us, and the theater community at large, of the breadth of Latina/o theater talent that is multiplying and thriving in our be…
By David Dower. Today I talk with three people involved in the Catalyst gathering at the National Black Theatre: Jonathan McCrory, Sade Lithcott, and Deadria Harrington. Evolving out of a se…
By Patricia Davis. The festival at Roundhouse unfolded as a kind of discourse on life in metro DC. Artistic director Dominic D'Andrea, who founded the OMPF in New York, noted as he introduce…
By Catherine Trieschmann. Nothing stirs my blood quite like the soft knock of toe shoes on a wood floor during a piqué. And so I admit, I may have exhibited a little too much enthusiasm whe…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company present The Second Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source …
By Emilie Whelan. The DISTILLERY is a creative residency for mid-career New Orleans-based performing artists to utilize while they are crafting a new performance. The DISTILLERY values local…
By Pardis Mahdavi. I had become exhausted from fighting the trafficking fights... The result has been policies that do more harm than good, and wide scale media misrepresentations of the pro…
By Morgan Greene. In About Face Youth Theatre's rehearsal space, there is a cluster of post-it notes on the wall titled "Where I Started." The ensemble's first impressions range from "not be…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Josh Sobel. The onus is on the artist to create an atmosphere and scenario for an audience to be open to an interactive experience, and to understand the techniques and considerations nec…
By Kate Kremer. There is a prevailing sense that the millennial avant-garde is not creating political, activist theater to the same extent as the avant-garde of the '60s and '70s. I don't th…
