By HowlRound TV. Create the Vote, a coalition of artists and arts, cultural, and creative institutions based throughout Massachusetts, will host the Gubernatorial Forum on Arts, Culture, and…
By Amy Rose Marsh. Our community needs to come together for a broader discussion on the rights of playwrights and theatermakers. As a play licensor, we face piracy and rights challenges on a…
By Morgan Greene. The TYA branch of theater for, by and with young people offers a rare intersection of authorship, representation and inverted hierarchies. When the lack of youth voices in …
By David Dower. Today my guest is Ed Herendeen, Artistic Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The Festival is gearing up for its 24th seaso…
By Stephan Wolfert. I believe that here, Lady Percy describes the effects of combat on the veteran. I also believe that she shows, first-hand, the effects of war on the veteran's family. I f…
By HowlRound TV. One-Minute Play Festival and Round House Theatre presents an evening of micro plays by over 50 of the DC area's best playwrights livestreaming on the global, commons-based p…
By Morgan Gould. What if you knew that a major critic's favorite play was "Life is a Dream?" Maybe you would think about their review of an avant-garde movement piece and context it differen…
By HowlRound TV. Samuel French, Inc in New York City presents four livestreaming panel discussions for #RightsWeek: Protecting & Sharing Your Intellectual Property on the global, commons…
By Daniel Talbott. I believe that theater at its heart is a peasant's art form. It's an art form of the dirt, the ocean, fire, air, and animals. It grows out of the elements and the very act…
By Patricia Davis. Director Stevie Zimmerman didn't know what to expect on moving to Washington, DC, in 2010. She feared she might find a rather traditional theater scene, with little use fo…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Within the bigger picture of "openframe", I define myself as an immersive storyteller. My text is that of playwrights, space, and senses. I am adamant about crafting …
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. The Welders is a new DC-based playwrights' collective whose mission is to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play development and production. Ove…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Is your company playwright-driven, director-driven, actor-driven? A conversation about aesthetics, authorship, and companies". This hour-long…
By Carlos Murillo, Henning Bochert. I attempt as best as I can to embed the way I "hear" the language in the way it's shaped on the page. In my experience with the plays, it seems to have th…
By Stephan Wolfert. In the modern military, weeks and weeks are spent tearing the "civilian" out of civilians-turned-recruits. Ripping out the thoughtful, compassionate, human response and r…
By Jonathan Mandell. Eight months after his release from prison, Joseph Assadourian is portraying some eighteen different characters in "The Bullpen", a play he wrote that has just opened. T…
By Brendan McCall. These personal experiences of Belarus Free Theatre"what they have endured, and what they are willing to sacrifice for what they believe in"humbles me. I cannot imagine bei…
By Shebana Coelho. In 2012, eleven young theater students succeeded in starting Ashtar's first youth festival. Ashtar Theatre, which was founded in 1991 by Iman Aoun and Edward Muallem, desc…
By Polly Carl, Julie Crosby. With all of the conversations about gender parity, I have been thinking a lot about women and leadership and the particular problems that pertain to women at the…
By Mark Jackson. Three key values"dialogue, diversity, and quality"figure into every aspect of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival with a consistency that has made it the powerful engin…
By HowlRound TV. A significant debate over how to approach new works has energized theatre-makers in the past year. Should critics publish their reviews of new plays with a different standar…
By HowlRound TV. Discover what New Dramatists has to offer playwrights; also, live demonstration of how to apply online. Learn about the selection process, what and how to submit application…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "Brigadoon". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced …
By Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez. It is commendable that TCG is doing this daring work around diversity and inclusion and we all should acknowledge that they are one of the leaders in the field…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Engaging Volunteers for Your Arts Organization" and will be moderated by Christian Carter @cdcarter"who like all of our moderators, authors, …