By Catherine Trieschmann. A couple of months ago, HowlRound hosted a discussion about parenting and theater on Twitter hashtag #newplay, and perhaps the most interesting question to emerge f…
By Jamie Gahlon. Since the October 2013 Latina/o Theatre Commons ( LTC ) National Convening in Boston, the LTC has been moving forward on a number of upcoming planned initiatives. We have a …
By Jordan Butterfield. We produced "A Christmas Carol" and adapted our own versions of "Peter Pan" and "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". The students reveled in the attention from thei…
By Hannah Fisher. A friend or peer might see a show and say that the relationships felt true to life or true to her experiences, which makes for a satisfying evening in their eyes. While I c…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Writing & Producing New Plays for the Indie, High School, College, and Community Theatre Markets" and will be moderated by Amy Rose Marsh…
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 Rob Yoho. Franchising has had limited exposure within the American theatrical landscape. In fact, only a select few theater companies have experimented with independent franchises of thei…
By David Dower. If you don't know these guys and their work, check out their website. Michael and Abby are following their own muse and it is taking them along the road less traveled. I saw …
By Rick Gilbert. We usually consider a fight choreographer's job to be staging the fights so that they are safe. Certainly safety is essential: actors should not be getting hurt in the exerc…
By HowlRound. Are you the next HowlRound Fellow? HowlRound is looking for editors/writers/producers/entrepreneurs who make things happen"who are ready and passionate to dive into working on …
By Alice Stanley. "So long as it's got a cunt it's all right with you!" Stevie barks in Edward Albee's 2002 Tony-award winning play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" while interrogating her husb…
By HowlRound TV. StageSource, Boston presents the Defining Gender Parity Town Hall livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday, …
By David Dower. All of a sudden, I had the visceral sensation of a melting away, a fog lifting, a waking up. It was physical and it was emotional. It stopped my breath. …The moment I saw T…
By Rick Dildine. Shakespeare is credited with writing 38 plays. Some say as many as 43 and some say as few as zero; no matter what, all are in the public domain. I thought: "What if we gave …
By HowlRound TV. South Coast Repertory's 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in Costa Mesa, California presents the panel "What is the role of the playwright?" livestreaming on the glob…
By Jonathan Mandell. The most prolifically produced living playwright in New York this season lives in Texas. I saw five works of theater by Kirk Lynn in four different New York venues over …
By Sara Guerrero. The project's success has been due to a number of factors, including (but not limited to): playwright-in-residence José Cruz González, someone I have looked up to since…
By Julie Marie Myatt, José Cruz Gonzaléz. José Cruz González interviewed by Julie Marie Myatt, two of South Coast Repertory's playwrights-in-residence. José Cruz González is the pl…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How do you translate theater into other languages and into other cultures?" and will be moderated by Playwrights Foundation @pwfoundation"who…
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 Kelly Miller. There is a community and artistic engagement revolution happening at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California right now. And it's being led by our playwrights. José …
By Joelle Jameson. The neglect of playwriting as a genre in what I'll lovingly call the creative writing industrial machine"poetry, fiction, and non-fiction/memoir are the ruling three"hasn'…
By Loy Webb. We cannot be preoccupied before or during a show with differences of race, class, sexuality, etc., and assume because of these differences the lives of those we see before us ar…
By David Dower. Many of you have already read the story of my first meeting with Olga Garay-English in 2002 in Portland, Oregon. A TCG-sponsored gathering called New Works, New Ways. From th…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Across the festival, every production I saw had a multi-racial cast; "brownsville song" and "Steel Hammer" deal explicitly with race and cast accordingly, and all the o…