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By Caridad Svich. Writing for the theater is an act of resistance. It is also an act of folly, daring, and one that asks of its makers and emancipated spectators alike to consider potentiali…
By HowlRound TV. The Living Room Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri presents a livestreaming performance of Master of the Universe written and directed by Kyle Hatley on Sunday, June 29 at 6pm…
By Catherine Trieschmann. My feelings are more complicated than merely wishing my children would share my love of theater, however, because what I really want is for my children to love the …
By Stephan Wolfert. Although written in the early 1600s in England and set in ancient Rome, Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" elucidates the difficulty of reintegration back into society for our ve…
By David Dower. Today my guest is Tracey Scott Wilson. Her play Buzzer recently closed at The Goodman and she's also a writer on my favorite television show "The Americans". Tracey and I hav…
By Bertie Ferdman. It was by now quite obvious that this was the beginning of the show we were all there to experience: Cynthia von Buhler's immersive staging of her grandfather's unsolved 1…
By Zak Berkman. This is the fifth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of People's Light & Theatre Company's (Malvern, Pennsylvania) New Play Frontiers. I will share…
By Gabriel Jason Dean, Lindsay Amer. The aim of this article is not to point fingers. Though we were both angry at being censored, the director of the Purple Crayon Players production, Linds…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Theatermakers, playwrights: What's the best way to get feedback?" and will be moderated by Angela Eden @angelaeden116"who like all of our mod…
By Dani Snyder-Young. The Chicago Home Theater Festival, now in its second year, creates participatory performance events in private homes with the goal of crossing borders, creating opportu…
By HowlRound TV. City Theatre in Miami, Florida hosts CityWrights 2014"CityWrights: A Professional Weekend for Playwrights"which will be livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produ…
By HowlRound TV. Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas will hold its 2014 annual international conference in Boston, USA: "Building the Future" and will livestream five events o…
By Andrew Roblyer. Sometimes, the best way to study a theory or philosophy is to implement it and learn from the results. This twelve-part series is the year-long account of one young artist…
By Joy Meads, Carla Ching, Annah Feinberg, Kelly Miller, Polly Carl. On June 11, 2014, The Kilroys, an independent Los Angeles-based advocacy group of female playwrights and producers, relea…
By Fitz Patton. "I think that there is still a prejudice that sound design is not artistic, that it is purely technical. I think that's the crux of the matter, for some people.""Cecilia Frie…
By Stephan Wolfert. We as a nation, much like Shakespeare's plays, are brilliant at using camaraderie to: define masculinity, create and dehumanize an enemy, and to motivate our men and wome…
By Maggie Sulc. We are building a shared vocabulary that may not ever fit into a dictionary or any static form, but will give us a foundation to work toward into the future. The playwrights …
By David Dower. Today I cheated a little bit and just called Marc Kudisch, a great friend who is in the middle of the run of a show we made together. I won't link it here so that it's not a …
By Martha Steketee. The art of theater director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is enormous and embracing and currently evident in "The Mysteries", a retelling of The York Mystery Cycle at the Flea The…
By Megan Reilly. The term "gamification" refers to using game mechanics in non-game situations. Many believe that understanding what draws people to games can be used to draw in audiences th…
By Jean Ann Douglass, Eric John Meyer. There is much that can be done in a truck that cannot be done in a conventional theater"and vice versa. The shows we create for a truck will forever on…
By Chantal Rodriguez, Jose Luis Valenzuela. The Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC), is proud to announce the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A Nat…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "What's Your Relationship to Your Audience?" and will be moderated by Ian Hylands @8inky"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content …
By Alice Stanley. The director implores in the playbill, "If 'Red Planet Respite' inspires you to investigate what's happening outside of your major, or your comfort zones, it will be a succ…
By HowlRound TV. The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will livestream the 24th TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders, in San Diego, California June 19-21 on the HowlRound TV network. T…
