By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Solo Work" and will be moderated by Laura Steinroeder @SoloNewWorksLA"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content producers"self-sel…
By Michael Rau, Will Davis. Rather than rely on a production model where the script has all the answers, what if we assumed the script was a powerful tool among many powerful tools? What if …
By Bradley Diuguid. I grew up entranced by Jim Henson's Muppets. Performing with wry but gentle humor, they pulled back the curtain to snicker at backstage life and deftly expressed all the …
By Meron Langsner. Stage combat is the art of creating the illusion of violence for the sake of storytelling. Some illusions are easier and/or less expensive than others. One thing I've foun…
By HowlRound TV. The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson at Emerson College, Boston present a performance and book launch for Daniel Beaty's "Trans…
By David Dower. One of the dimensions of practice at ArtsEmerson that shapes this environment is the direct connection to the students at Emerson College. We are in our second year of an eff…
By Stephen Sachs. When Joseph Campbell spoke of the power of myth he didn't have LA stage actors in mind. Yet a powerful and prevailing myth has spread for years in theater centers throughou…
By Lily Janiak. "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.""Mahatma Gandhi. If we applied Gandhi's metric to theater, we'd be judging ourselves by how we treat"n…
By HowlRound TV. How did Actors Theatre get started? Where did the idea come from to create the Humana Festival? Why Louisville, Kentucky? Through a collection of anecdotes, memories, tall t…
By HowlRound TV. New approaches and new ideas for the American theater are increasingly in demand. But where do we look for inspiration? And what steps do we take once the spark ignites? Thr…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana present the "1st Indianapolis One-Minute Play Festival" livestreaming on the global, co…
By HowlRound TV. University of Wales Trinity St David (UK) presents "Barbie Caerdroia""a Welsh translation of "Trojan Barbie" by Christine Evans. Translation by Elinor Wyn Reynolds and perfo…
By Meg Taintor. This relationship to the college is central to my work. As the student engagement coordinator, I am constantly trying to find authentic ways to connect our students with our …
By Akiba Abaka. The twenty-first century American theater is a communal experience where artists and audiences are bound in an existence which deems them equal parts subject, spectator and b…
By Jonathan Greene. I have to wonder why Berliners are willing to bring their children to film or theater like "Pluto". Why are they more apt to present for their children's consideration an…
By W.M. Akers. Take two minutes to listen to Al Hirt's theme for the failed 60's television show, "The Green Hornet". A funky "Flight of the Bumblebee," it's as irresistible as electric shoc…
By HowlRound. Los Angeles Theatre Center Encuentro: A Festival of National Latina/o Theatre will be held October 12-November 10 2014 and will feature ten companies from around the country, p…
By Kevin Becerra. Boston's neighborhoods, some of whose origins can be traced to the 1630s, have been home to myriad political and cultural shifts over the centuries"a concept that blew my C…
By Rick Davis. As a former fellow-traveler, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale than the summiteers, all of this got me thinking: For the twenty two years of Theater of the First Amendment's …
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How hard is it to get a comedy produced?" and will be moderated by playwright Ken Ludwig @ken_ludwig and Samuel French, Inc. @MrSamuelFrench"…
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space in London presents a staged reading of "Sket" by Maya Sondhi livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at http://howlround.…
By David Dower, Alan Dupont. Zelda Fichandler once said that the institution was, for her, a context for her questions, a container for her inquiry"that she woke up every morning with things…
By Jeffrey Mosser. Alvina Krause, one of twentieth century's most famous teachers of acting, believed, "if you can act Chekhov, you can act anything!" In the summer of 1976 she was 83 years …
By Holly L. Derr. Sheryl Sandberg, author of "Lean In", has just launched a campaign to "Ban Bossy," so that girls who used to be called bossy start to be told instead that they are leaders.…
By David Dower. Today I am on the phone with Matthew Glassman and Amrita Ramanan of Double Edge Theatre , located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. We all had engagement on our minds, and I asked …