By HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" at the Public Theater in New York will livestream for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv this Th…
By Holly L. Derr. I managed to take in five shows, including two solo performances, a collaboration between a Los Angeles theater company and one from the Netherlands, a deconstructed versio…
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space Productions, London presents the European Premiere of Olives and Blood by US playwright Michael Bradford directed by Prav MJ at Brixton East, London. A play ab…
By Hannah Wolf. "Is all new theater here about communism?" I ask my friend and host, Ioana Moldovan, after seeing yet another play about the fear, terrible transgressions, and bloodshed that…
By Michael Rohd. A few years ago I started writing at HowlRound about my ideas for Civic Theater , which turned into my ideas for Civic Practice , which turned into the Center for Performanc…
By Srila Nayak. What is it that your mind was looking for? Where is your heart? For this you give your heart to everything Your heart is without direction You are destroying your heart You s…
By Srila Nayak. "To never hear again: 'There's not enough money to do a Mexican American Play.' Do we say the same about Norwegians for Ibsen?" "Artist or Latino artist? Am I one or both?" "…
By Srila Nayak. The Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening has finally arrived in Boston. October 31 saw 78 Latina/o actors, directors, playwrights, scholars, producers/administrators, …
By Lisa Portes. In 2004 and 2005, two seminal Latino/a theatre incubators closed down: the Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Latino Theatre Initiative at …
By Jose Luis Valenzuela, Chantal Rodriguez. What are the unique needs of U.S. Latina/o theater companies and artists? How do our works reflect the changing landscape of the American theater?…
By Allison Vanouse. Like the earlier project (a memorable smash), The Jungle Book employs a seasoned and celebrated figure of the theater world, Zimmerman following in the foosteps of Julie …
By Georgina Escobar. Lo que cae mal, es la obsesión con la identidad. Presiento que debemos hablar honestamente sobre la paradoja de este tema. Por ejemplo, soy mujer gay Mexicana, si--pe…
By Tlaloc Rivas. April 1978. It is a warm summer day in Barrio Logan, San Diego. My father and I are attending the annual Chicano Park Day celebration, and I am about to meet my godfather, R…
By Marisela Orta. We heard people wanting to work, but struggling against categories that others were imposing on them. We heard people longing for connection, excited to be in a room full o…
By Alice Stanley. Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the country, but in order for me to see a new piece of theater in late August, I had to travel twenty miles west of the metropolitan ar…
By Jorge Huerta. As a theater historian I am often asked "What is the state of US Latina/o theater today?" I look forward to this and many other questions, which will be explored, debated, a…
By HowlRound. The following videos were recorded in March 2013 when the steering committee of the Latino Theater Commons National Convening gathered at HowlRound, Emerson College for the fir…
By Anne GarcÃa-Romero. In August 2012, I wrote about the genesis of the Latina/o Theater Commons . Since that time, our initiative continues to grow and expand. As we approach our first n…
By HowlRound TV. The HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv will livestream The Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening this Thursday, October 31 to Saturday, November 2, 2013 from Emerson…
By Todd London. Where innovation thinkers see ill-adaptive organizations, I see decades of unsupported art and artists, energy and money thrown at institutional issues, as if this can make t…
By Pearl Cleage. Even my relationship with the theater where I am now happily in residence began forty years ago in just such a confrontational moment when the place was picketed by some Afr…
By HowlRound TV. The Ladies of Teatro Luna"Chicago's All-Latina Theatre Company"invite you to participate in "Luna Unlaced", a choose your own adventure play, which will be performed at Emer…
By Srila Nayak. By 2003, Sophocles' Antigone, a fifth century B.C. tragedy about a violent confrontation between a defiant young woman and an arrogant ruler, was one of the most widely adapt…
By HowlRound TV. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presents a panel discussion No Holds Barrio: Latina/o Theatre into the Future livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlR…
By Carlton Turner. All of this work is exemplary. It follows the models set forth by southern artists historically working on the frontlines in aggressive and violent communities. Their prac…