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 Patrick Gabridge. In theater, it's easy to mistake weather for climate. If I have a string of productions, I suddenly think the world has turned around and good things are happening all o…
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. So the first lesson we've taken away from becoming The Welders: the world isn't really against us. In fact, the world seems to have wanted something very much…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) present The 3rd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based,…
By Jack Serio. If a high school's production of "Rent" has been cancelled, that director certainly isn't going to push for a David Mamet play next season. These high school administrators ar…
By HowlRound TV. Circus Chickendog's show at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on at Friday, Januar…
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. I…
By Chris Garza. According to Abbey Swafford, in the playwright's notes, the seed of "Parhelion" came from a day ten years ago when Swafford saw what she thought was a sundog after she climbe…
By Stephen Spotswood. A while back, a fellow theater artist who has considerable experience working with seniors told me that it's a lot like working with inner-city middle school students. …
By Tom Horan. What people imagine less often is a playwright-in-residence who relates only tangentially to the business of a theater (either out of disinterest or lack of access), who desper…
By Dara Weinberg. Great Polish theater has scraped its way into existence from stateless, state-in-exile, or state-straightened circumstances. European Union coffers can't take credit for th…
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the blog this past year.
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the HowlRound's NewCrit this past …
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. Since our beginning, we have published nearly 600 theater artists who have contributed a journal artic…
By Holly L. Derr. As Co-Artistic Director John Sloan of The Antaeus Company, who also acts with the company, put it, "You are instantly that much more alive and awake and listening that much…
By Marshall Botvinick. The indefensible cannot be defended, which means that we are ultimately left with the disturbing yet undeniable paradox that terrible people often create works of unim…
By Alex Ates. Has the American regional theater betrayed its audiences by not telling their stories, by not telling stories about the world around us? Has the mission of the not-for-profit r…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. For my own part, I'm excited by the thought of using a speech-to-text tool of some kind to "take dictation," as it were, during an improvisation exercise. Imagine the m…
By Jonathan Mandell. Why are so many accents on stage so awful? They aren't in the movies. I first noticed this problem as a child on a family trip to London, where my parents for unfathomab…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents The Holiday Hip-Hop Theatre Explosion "a full evening of family-friendly performance, hosted by Zell Miller III and featuring DaShade Mo…
By Alice Stanley. The Mighty Vandals is successful from a different standpoint"one of cultural celebration and education. New Carpa Theater Company was founded in 2002, dedicated to creating…
By Kyle A. Thomas. With every conference I attend and every person I talk with currently holding a PhD in theater… the mantra is always the same: there are vastly more PhD graduates in the…
By HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" livestreams for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday, December 19 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
By Allison Vanouse. One is likely to be familiar with some work of the Chinese-born American choreographer Shen Wei without knowing it: it was Wei who created the spectacular opening ceremon…
By Pearl Cleage. My sister took two of her grandchildren to see the production of "A Christmas Carol" at the Alliance Theatre and reported back to me her surprise at the multi-colored childr…