2,710 stories by "HowlRound"
By Caridad Svich. What would happen if ALL, and I mean, ALL of the US Latina/o theatres in this country actually banded together to create shared programming, touring of productions and arti…
By Michael Rohd. The purpose of the Catalyst Initiative is to serve individual and ensemble artists who are interested in work that brings arts-based practice into collision with community a…
By Jennifer Bryner. There are many reasons why teaching theater is fantastic"the main reason is the kids. I get to watch them discover who they are and develop as people. This happens in mom…
By HowlRound. Wednesday's topic is "High School Theater" and Thursday's topic is "Artistic Risk" moderated by The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis @pwcenter. Both days' conversations start…
By Wyckham Avery. Let's be honest, I didn't have the slightest idea how to grade students. How do you compare a naturally gifted actor with no work ethic against a hard working but not-so-en…
By José Carrasquillo. The recent National Convening of Latina/o theatre artists hosted in the city of Boston by HowlRound at Emerson College was a significant event in the evolution of Amer…
By Kai Green. I feel a pang, sometimes, that you are not mine. I long for my own child, to be responsible for a life, to begin the writing of a new story with another human being, helping to…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Steven Simoncic's "Broken Fences", directed by Ann Filmer and Ilesa Duncan, is a nuanced and sophisticated look at gentrification. It focuses on the Garfield Park neigh…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. English playwright Nina Raine's Tribes garnered rave reviews at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, where it made its North American opening last fall, and is now ma…
By Alexis Clements, Black Eyed Susan. Oftentimes, when theater critics or historians talk about Black-Eyed Susan, they speak about downtown impresario Charles Ludlam , founder of the Ridicul…
By Cheryl Lynn Bruce. I act, yes. Write, too. Direct and adapt as well. I've also narrated, designed, stage managed, worked box office and the bar, proofed copy, and handled the press. I've …
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 Lily Janiak. When I first encountered Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", which was just in a production at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, I was a sophomore in high school recently moved to Tex…
By HowlRound TV. Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco presents "35 and Counting, a Symposium on Theatre & Social Justice" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound…
By Meron Langsner. "Fightaturgy" matters. Because it's the moments of violence on stage that are among the most direct expressions of conflict and objective, and because if they're done well…
By Meron Langsner. " Professional Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor " is apparently one of the best jobs one can possibly have when attending a cocktail party (though for the record…
By Danielle Rosvally. Theater is stressful, and (especially in the amateur world where jobs get done when volunteers have time and resources to do them) often changing. This can create a gre…
By Bess Rowen. For those of us who love Tennessee Williams for his early and later work, Christmas has come early this year. As soon as I learned that renowned avant-garde artists Mink Stole…
By Linda López McAlister. According to theater historian Brian Herrera, when the first expedition arrived from Mexico in 1598 to establish a permanent Spanish settlement in what is now Ne…
By Catherine Trieschmann. The theater tends to attract mercurial, volatile people who seem perfectly rational one day and in desperate need of meds the next. During the hatching period, I do…
By HowlRound TV. Dramatists Guild of America presents a seminar on "Consolidating Student Loans" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.t…
By Patricia Davis. T.S. Eliot called Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus "one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written…" Samuel Johnson deemed it impossible to produce""the barba…
By Joe Markesbery. I've been in acting school for three years at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and have a measly eight months before I make the leap myse…
By Catherine Mueller. I am most interested in how this program can empower its participants to become Activated Artists, a term I am developing to describe artists operating with a sense of …
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 . …
