2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Laura Shamas. Is there really no institution in 2014 that will sponsor an ongoing annual study of American women playwrights working in theater seasons around the country (and directors, …
By Karla Jennings. Anonymous submissions put sole focus on the script. They are especially important in writing competitions, since that's how outliers usually get a foot in the door. When y…
By Jonathan Mandell. Carrie Robbins designed the costumes for the first play that Meryl Streep performed on Broadway, for the original production of "Grease", and for more than thirty other …
By John Moore. I was young, knew nothing and was impressionable. I remember being fond of Yuriko's direction. She would say things like, "go forward from here" while pointing to her heart. N…
By Amanda Boyle. The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, prides itself on producing "bold new plays," under artistic director Cynthia Levin. The 2013-2014 season has been somewhat of a…
By HowlRound TV. The Foundry Theatre presents Transforming Justice which is part of the Foundry's May 2014 Dialogues series Devising Freedom livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer p…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How To Sell a Play No One Has Heard of" and will be moderated by Alan Katz @dcdramaturg"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content …
By Jonathan Moscone, Lily Janiak. In July of 2014 Lily Janiak wrote a piece for HowlRound in which she spoke critically of her experience seeing the play "American Night" at California Shake…
By Laura Zabel. The gnaw came on slowly. It started to bother me more when people asked if I thought I'd ever "go back to theater?" I started peeking at audition postings every once in a whi…
By David Dower. Today I followed a hunch that there was an interesting conversation to be had with Jess Barbagallo and Polly Carl about gender in today's theater. Polly, of course wrote this…
By HowlRound TV. How do effective social movements actually get built? We're bringing three groundbreaking organizers into dialogue who have done just that. Join us for stories and debate on…
By HowlRound TV. Golden Thread in San Francisco presents a livestreaming performance of "The Fifth String: Ziryab's Passage to Cordoba" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produc…
By Patricia Davis. Although it is based on Ovid's account of the myth of Philomela in "Metamorphoses", "The Love of the Nightingale" goes beyond the simple outlines of that myth. Wertenbaker…
By Tiffany Antone. How many playwrights have been told to self-produce? It seems like the go-to response anytime someone expresses frustration with the current system of "Development." It so…
By HowlRound TV. Little Black Dress INK, Los Angeles is excited to bring its 2014 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project to the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRoundTV network at howlrou…
By Eric Bass. There are two myths about puppet theater that need to be exploded. The first of them is the more obvious. It is the myth that the puppeteer controls the puppet. As puppeteers, …
By Oliver Mayer. For an American playwright today, where is Mecca? Where does it all come together: actors of high quality who give maximum effort to a new script; directors with a sense of …
By HowlRound TV. Livestreaming the Voices of Now Festival at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC on Friday, May 16 and on Saturday, May 17 at 4:30pm PDT / 6…
By Allison Vanouse. By the end of her presentation, Patty Chang had two small bottles of milk. She poured the contents into a tea bowl dating from the Song Dynasty, of the twelfth or thirtee…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Playwrights Theatre Centre from Vancouver, Canada for a conversation about "Interactive Storytelling: Video Games and Theatre" which is livestreaming …
By Rick Shiomi. The term "collaborative" for me conjures up the idea of a loose group of artists with a shared Asian American identity and purpose, working together to produce a wide range o…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Curtain Calls & Curtain Speeches: Why, How, and When Do You Do It?" and will be moderated by Annie Paladino @anniepaladino and Zhenya Lav…
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 Srila Nayak. "The Who and the What" will have its New York debut in the Lincoln Theater Center on May 31, 2014. According to Ayad Akhtar, its Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, the play e…
By Morgan Greene. In accepting the single story that "God's Work" does not belong in a downtown Chicago theater, do we contribute to the silencing of the voices of our youth? I believe "God'…
