By Holly L. Derr. According to the LA Stage Alliance, there are about 25 female artistic directors in the greater-Los Angeles area. Though I was initially cheered, that number, it turns out,…
By HowlRound TV. At a time when theaters are looking to cut costs and cast sizes, how do playwrights sustain the creation of epic theater"plays that are imaginative and large in scope"reachi…
By Amrita Ramanan. What are the points of intersection and interaction between artists and communities that create dynamic and culturally viable exchanges? When should community be a key pla…
By Jocelyn Prince. Woolly's innovative Connectivity Department was developed and established four years ago in order to activate the civic dialogue that lies at the heart of Wooly's mission …
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 …
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which is livestreaming for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound …
By W.M. Akers. "Julius Caesar" at St. Ann's, New York: These are lovely moments, simple and effective and buoyed by the remarkable performances of Jumbo and Harriet Walter, whose Brutus has …
By Erica Nagel. I love that engagement has become such a major part of the conversation in our field. But I do worry that if we are not vigilant, "engagement" has the potential to become a c…
By HowlRound. This Thursday's topic will be: The Internet + Audience Engagement. How do your audiences continue their in-person experience on the internet? What are the in-person manifestati…
By RJ Maccani. In partnering with communities organizing for social justice, with clear visions and practices of their own, we increase the possibility of authentic collaboration amongst equ…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & INTAR Theatre present The 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival of Latina/o Voices livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced…
By Aaron Carter. I'm now thinking of audience engagement itself as a destination. I've shifted from "how does engagement drive the audience to performance?" to "how do we provide tools to au…
By HowlRound. From October 31-November 2 nd , HowlRound, in partnership with the Latina/o Theatre Commons will host the largest formal gathering of Latina/o theater-makers since 1986 at Emer…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents a panel discussion "Playwrights at the Helm" livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network on Tuesday…
By HowlRound. "The field is not yielding the actors I need yet, and I'm wondering why this is so. So they're either not being trained properly or the pool is not diverse enough. For example,…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. We develop waterfall marketing campaigns, we sell waterfall tickets (bought far in advance of the intended date… by which time a theatergoer might not feel like atten…
By Thea Rodgers. So the Romeo and Juliet that just premiered on Broadway"you know the one featuring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in the title roles"in some ways is the consummate modern …
By Danielle Rosvally. In the Boston area alone, there are several community theaters which would fall within her parameters of "professional"; these theaters are run by dedicated staff of lo…
By Eleanor Regan. I am not interested in seeing who can yell their opinion the loudest while an infinite number of people yell their own only slightly different opinions. I am interested in …
By HowlRound TV. Saturday, October 19 from 10:30am-5:30pm EDT"The central question for our conference using Open Space Technology is: How can we, as emerging arts leaders, drive innovation a…
By Lily Janiak. Do their female characters represent as wide a range of the human experience as their males? In a world in which we actually have to ask this question, to make your young fem…
By Kacy O'Brien. What would happen if a conference could be planned as one long coffee break? What kinds of insights and actions would come from a full day of coffee-break connections? Our c…
By HowlRound TV. October 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Southern Theater , the organizational predecessor to Junebug Productions in New Orleans. Talkin' Revolution is a historic…
By Jonathan Mandell. Anne Washburn started watching The Simpsons and writing plays at about the same time, and didn't think they had anything to do with one another until she wrote Mr. Burns…
By Michael "Quess?" Moore. "We propose to establish a theater in the deep South… a combination of art and social awareness… through theater, we think to open a new area of protest."