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By A. Nora Long. I know a number of extraordinary artists in the country who give up making art, because they want a family, they want to go to the dentist, they want to eat vegetables. This…
By HowlRound TV. In partnership with the United States Department of State, Arena Stage teaching artists have been working in Zagreb, Croatia with young adults with physical disabilities to …
By Ezra LeBank. I would like to argue that it is urgent that the national community of university theater departments shift the processes and expectations in our production seasons in order …
By Patrick Gabridge. In my life as a farmer, there really is a time to plan, a time to sow, a time to weed, and a time to reap. In theater, there are periods to think up new ideas, to write …
By Lauren Gunderson. The first question from an audience of about sixty who stayed for the talkback of one of my new plays came from a guy who looked post-middle-age, glasses, uncool hair, j…
By HowlRound TV. The Playwrights Foundation presents The 4th Annual San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at h…
By Matt McGeachy. Taking a similar view as their starting point, creators/performers Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir created a show exploring myriad components of gay heritage, …
By Iulia Popovici. But what interested me in that scene, besides the actual incredible fact that in a Romanian city somebody had decided to build, in 2011, a wall between "white people" and …
By HowlRound TV. Join the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and members of the Latina/o Theatre Commons as they share ideas and outcomes from a recent 2013 national convening of the Latina/o artist…
By Andrea Tompa. As everyday life worsened in Romania, food, public services such as electricity, water, and gas started to disappear. Anything with a concrete reference to these problems co…
By Andrew Haydon. Earlier this year I went to Romania, ostensibly to watch the excellent National Dance Showcase. Contemporary dance is, by and large, a wordless form. Okay, a lot of contemp…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Paul is a controversial figure, and Silk Road Rising's extensive dramaturgical materials paint a compelling picture of a controversy. Paul has been characterized in man…
By HowlRound. If you have an idea for a topic or if you want to moderate the discussion, contact us on Twitter @HowlRound or post a comment here. Our next Howl will be on Thursday, December …
By Ioana Mălău. Fast-forwarding to our times, Ivan Vyrypaev, award winning Russian playwright and filmmaker, described the current period as an era of vague criteria, unset rules, and …
By HowlRound TV. Let's Geaux, Y'all! The National Performance Network Annual Meeting in New Orleans will be livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at …
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 12 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
By Ioana Tamas. Even though after the fall of communism in 1989, the democratisation of artistic life gave an immense opportunity to accept new forms of expression and organisation, it also …
By HowlRound TV. This information session will introduce the Many Voices program's two tracks (Mentorships and the recently expanded Fellowships), share helpful tips and insights into applyi…
By Iulia Popovici. Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism"playing the monkey for the zoo visitors tha…
By HowlRound TV. Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents " Aristotle was a Man! ", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic struct…
By Holly L. Derr. But Katy Perry is certainly not the first Westerner to misrepresent the geisha. The history of the Japanese geisha is long and complicated: The term has not always meant th…
By Holly L. Derr. Before they do their own fair share of shooting, the characters in Anton Chekhov's unfinished play "Platonov" (1878), an early dramatic work written while he was a schoolbo…
By HowlRound TV. Seth Lepore presents "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names""a theatrical web-a-thon spectacle that will look at the meta-examination of both failing and succeeding in real time"live…
By Jacob Richman. There is a mixed lineage of performance work involving audience movement, from ancient parades and processions, to Fluxus non-genre "Happenings," to Punchdrunk's wildly suc…
By Chelsea Pace. Each fight must be run through at least twice prior to any run of a scene or piece. And then swings and understudies need to do it twice as well. I know it takes longer than…
