2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Patricia Davis. "Protest" is a fascinating study of how, in accommodating oneself to the system and refusing to take personal risks, one can easily become, not simply neutral, but an oppr…
By Daphne Kim. When an actor asks a question in rehearsal, the director responds, "What does the play want?" Then they have a conversation trying to figure out what the illusive play must wa…
By HowlRound TV. Arena Stage in Washington, DC and Voices of Now: India present two original plays livestreaming from Kolkata, India "Breaking Through" and "Train of Thought" on the global, …
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Passage Theatre present The 4th Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced…
By Bethany Lynn Corey. Movement is the central organizing principle in visual theater as performers communicate information, relationships, and emotions primarily using their bodies incorpor…
By Daria Wilke. While preparing "The Jester's Cap"'s presentation at the Moscow book fair, I got acquainted with the movement called Children-404"this initiative for gay teenagers in Russia …
By HowlRound TV. Sport and Art in Censored Society is the closing panel of PROPAGANDA: A Festival Celebrating Russian Voices which will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced…
By HowlRound TV. Discussions about "Playwrights In Collaborative Processes" and "American Theater & The Aesthetics of Democracy" will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produc…
By Rob Onorato. I kept coming back to "Fun Home" in high school, in college, and the book found me as I navigated my own thresholds and changes in identity. I came out by degrees, first to m…
By Thomas Karshan. This absolute freedom was, in Nabokov's thinking, embodied in play, in games, in sport, and even in the Olympics. For, as he says in "Play", "there is no play without comp…
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 Tess Berry-Hart. Voices ranged from activists to people in the closet, from teachers to pupils, from émigrés to asylum seekers, from businessmen in the city to gayboys on nudist beaches…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival and New Georges in New York City present 57 playwrights in the 1st-Ever All-Woman One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons …
By Lauren Keating. …theater artists and athletes don't seem to talk much. We both train unwaveringly for performance day. We measure our successes by our own ability to push ourselves to n…
By HowlRound TV. Don't miss this pioneering experiment from one of America's leading visionaries for the stage. "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the globa…
By Dara Weinberg. We need to spend a little time talking about the Julia Child of Polish theater"Jerzy Grotowski"before we can get on to the contemporary companies which have emerged from th…
By Lily Janiak. San Francisco: Repurposed Theatre's production of Rachel Luann Strayer's "Drowning Ophelia" offers a critic's greatest pleasure: discovering a new company of merit.
By Amanda Boyle. When I spoke to the students about types of LGBT characters that they are familiar with, many found that the characters fall within a limited range. Student 5 said, "Trans a…
By Holly L. Derr. This particular framing of the conversation about the need for diversity in the American theater has been happening since the 1980s, and all of the participants at this pan…
By Hannah Wolf. This year held the first ever National Independent Theater Festival. Independent theater here is a young community, about 18 years old, but in the last ten years it's explode…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Stage to Screen/Screen to Stage: Lost in Translation?" which will be about the transition of a work from stage to screen and vice-versa, and …
By Polly Carl. The deleterious effects of criticism are underscored by mainstream writers such as Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood in the New York Times, who revel in their power to destro…
By Jonathan Mandell. The conversations about the film adaptation of the play August: Osage County and the live television broadcast of the musical The Sound of Music have not been kind. But …
By HowlRound TV. The 2014 Under the Radar Festival Symposium and Culturebot's Scanning the Landscape discussions will broadcast live on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV …
By Kyna Hamill. I've been asked to do a soldier cutting off their own hand and a character's tongue being cut out and replaced with a new tongue that speaks a magical new language…; a char…
