By David Dower. My guest today is Eric Ting, Associate Artistic Director at the Long Wharf in New Haven, CT. We get into some detail around the challenges of planing a season that amplifies …
By David Lozano. When I read the list of speakers on the mayor's panel, it was made of six women, including five artists and one critic. In terms of racial diversity, only one was African-Am…
By Tiffany Antone. I think, rather, that playwrights readily turn over the fate of their work to these committees and power-players, simply because that is the way it's been done for so long…
By Lily Janiak. This month, Stuart Bousel's "Rat Girl" is being produced as part of a long-running San Francisco feminist theater festival, Divafest, at the Exit Theatre"the first play by a …
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Foundation, The Cutting Ball Theater & Tides Theatre in San Francisco, California present a livestreaming performance of the Des Voix Festival...Found in Tra…
By HowlRound TV. Live from Nashville, the Tennessee Repertory Theatre presents the Ingram New Works Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at …
By HowlRound TV. ACT"A Contemporary Theatre and The One-ÂMinute Play Festival (#1MPF) present the 1st Seattle One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer prod…
By Jonathan Norton. Jac Alder is Theatre Three's Executive Producer-Director. Jac and his wife, the late Norma Young, founded Theatre Three in 1961. Norma was inspired by her work with the A…
By Katherine Bourne. I ended up staying in Dallas more through a process of elimination rather than an initial zeal for the theater scene here. But I chose right, plain and simple. I've live…
By Katherine OWens. I've been honored to carve out a career in Dallas over the last 30 years producing new and experimental work as the Founder and Artistic Director of Undermain Theatre. Ov…
By Janice Maffei. The New York Times posed this question on April 29 when the Tony nominations were announced. It's a problem that's getting long in the tooth: for years we've known that ove…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Youth theater is often viewed more as education than art. If the general theater audience does not expect plays devised by teenagers to possess aesthetic excellence, hi…
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 Will Power. "You did what?" This is the question I'm asked by colleagues in the field when I tell them that I've recently moved to Dallas. So, here are the reasons why I moved, and why Da…
By Melisa Annis. Does my play choose the title, or does that first title inform my play? At fourteen pages in, who knows what will happen to these characters? Who knows what will happen in t…
By HowlRound. The Weekly Howl is a peer produced, open access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .*…
By Jonathan Norton. Local playwrights in Dallas have the difficult task of competing for that one slot against some of the most talented and well established playwrights on the national scen…
By Robert Neal. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was an actor's actor; the best, many said, of his generation. And yet, in the aftermath of his death, you realize that he was just like the rest of us…
By David Dower. So, today is something completely different. I talk with Leah Karpel, Marc Pierre, and Michael Anthony Williams"each of whom was involved in a production of Jackie Siblees Dr…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & Victory Gardens Theater present The 4th Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
By Jonathan Mandell. This year, for the first time since the award began in 1976, the Regional Tony Award is going to a theater in New York City, the Signature Theatre Company. I was shocked…
By Polly Carl. Keynote speech delivered at North Dakota State University "Playing on Common Ground: Theatre and the Complex Communities of the 21st Century" celebrating 100 years of theater …
By HowlRound TV. VORTEX Repertory Company in Austin, Texas presents a livestreaming performance of "RoBoVoX" on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at http://howlro…
By Tlaloc Rivas. And although I'm proud of the production and from the nearly-all Latina creative team that gave "Mariela en el Desierto" an authentic voice, an issue arose as the last weeke…
By Holly L. Derr. Los Angeles' combination of working artists, technological development, and some of America's top universities means that some of the most innovative work in the country is…