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By Deborah Stein, Suli Holum. The second time I worked with my boxing trainer, I burst out crying. I don't know what set me off, I know that it was at the end of the session and I was exhaus…
By Sam Marks. But maybe the reason I obsess over sports is because of how very different they are from what I have chosen to do. In sports, there's the illusion of fairness and opportunity. …
By Patricia Davis. "One of the most important things the occupation has succeeded in doing," Nabil Al-Ra'ee says, "is to kill hope, to shut down the mind, and to kill the imagination. You ca…
By HowlRound TV. Join SMU from Dallas, Texas as they present the conversation Transforming Arts and Culture Nationwide livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV n…
By Will Power. Isn't boxing just like writing a play? First, you have to train (the muscles in the gym if a boxer, the mind facing the screen if a writer). Then you have to fight! (What we i…
By Srila Nayak. Based on an actual photograph, the main action of Lucy Kirkwood's play is an American photojournalist's unyielding quest to unlock the mystery of a photograph taken by him du…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Dramaturgical Collaborations in Devised Work" and will be moderated by @ArtsEmerson"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content prod…
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 Mat Smart. In an age where so much can be recorded and on-demand, theater is an antidote to spending our day looking at a screen, to watching the YouTube videos and television shows anyti…
By Greg Redlawsk. A sampling of some of the major non-profits suggests that there are at least, on average, 8 to 10 unpaid interns working at any given time in the average mid to large sized…
By HowlRound TV. Theatre Bay Area presents three livestreaming sessions from their annual conference on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) & Perseverance Theatre present the 1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced Howl…
By David Dower. Today I get a chance to talk to a team of brothers who have been making work together for decades: David and Jeremy Wilhelm . There's such hybridity in their creative partner…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. We did "Pippi", and we had American Sign Language interpretation every weekend. This is because Wendy Lement, the producer at Wheelock, directed the play herself, and w…
By HowlRound TV. Inspired by pioneer British filmmaker, artist, gardener and gay rights activist Derek Jarman, known for such controversial films as "Sebastiane", "The Last of England", and …
By Bertie Ferdman. Where "This Was the End" stood out was in playing with age in two ways. The first was with the presence of older bodies onstage, having an elder cast be their age and all …
By Kevin Becerra. No amount of research or conversation can quite prepare you for a play where eleven deaf-blind actors are telling their own stories and dreams while baking bread. Adina Tal…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston was started by four people: Andrea Genser, Susan Kosoff, Jane Staab, and Tony Hancock. The mission of the theatre was to make a prof…
By HowlRound TV. Re-imagined 20th-century music and original video projections swirl with neuro-physics dream music built from oscillating fields and statistical mechanics in this new chambe…
By Bess Rowen. The New York Neo-Futurists are a group of performers who are best known for their long-running show "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", which is their attempt to do 30 s…
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 pro…
By Christine Bruno. Not only is the portrayal of disability by an able-bodied actor equivalent to blackface"what we in the disability community derisively call "cripping up" (pretending to h…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presents a conversation with author Soman Chainani livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
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 Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The landscape of theater accessibility for deaf people bears a lot of questions, many that lead back to the question of art and its purpose. Theater and art inspires us…
