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, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV…
By Allison Vanouse. Even more than the other cultural encampments that dot Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow enchants. It is a green place that seems unreal, folded into the fo…
By Francesca McKenzie. Arts organizations can no longer solely depend on traditional means of fiscal support such as federal money, grants or corporate sponsorship, and must look to more inn…
By Kelvin Dinkins, Jr.. Though I didn't get my MBA and opted for the more practical path of an MFA (wink), I am certain that understanding mergers and collaborations is essential when consid…
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 Karina Mangu-Ward. I believe that questioning assumptions about how we conduct our organizations is essential, that innovation should be considered a core competency for all organizations…
By HowlRound. "I don't know what Latino aesthetics are, and don't teach them, but I would love to learn! Challenges to educators (me) are tied to the number of Latino plays produced in a yea…
By Patricia Davis. Theater J, whose mission is to produce plays that are politically engaged and thought provoking, as well as personal, passionate, and entertaining, could not have selected…
By Jeremy Stoller. I spoke with several individuals who possess a broader view of the arts in New Jersey to get a better perspective for myself and for the New Jersey City Series. Here are s…
By Dan Swern. The future of artistic development in New Jersey is in partnerships and resource and space sharing. Institutions can island-hop, just like their patrons, and in the process inc…
By Jon Barker. It is odd to define New Jersey actors as "local" actors. So many of my fellow theater artists that live 'in state' constantly work on the other side of the Hudson River and vi…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV…
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 Holly L. Derr. Though Shakespeare created around 798 male characters, his dramatic corpus contains only about 149 female ones. That's a ratio of roughly sixteen to three. Yet every year t…
By Desi Shelton. So this has to be a calling, because if not, I need to check myself in and be examined. Especially because I built an African American theater company even as I watched Afri…
By Polly Carl. The last time I wore a skirt was in 1987 for Junior Parents Weekend in college. In some moment of self-awareness, seeing myself in full makeup and girl clothes, I knew I had t…
By EM Lewis. Everything was instantly better when I was invited to join the Passage Theater Play Lab. I had found my people. My new play people. I began to think of New Jersey as home.
By Mara Isaacs. I moved to Princeton, New Jersey from Los Angeles in 1995 for an opportunity to produce plays for McCarter Theater . I moved from a flagship institution (the Mark Taper Forum…
By Jeremy Stoller. Included in this series are the stories of people who have made strong, wholehearted commitments to their neighborhoods, alongside those of people who have managed quite s…
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"It has lit a fire in me; I can clearly see my role as an artist now. It has brought more attention to Latina/os as a growing population"one that must be not only contended with, but underst…
Dramatists Guild of America presents DG Conservatory: Behind the Music-al presents MuTube"The role of New Media in Contemporary Musical Theater livestreaming on the global, peer produced, op…
In my mind, we were a small ensemble company in a small city with no artistic reputation and, at that point, still no ensemble. I was hoping for fifty submissions, and that was if we were ex…
The pace in baseball is alternately a meditation and a flash, with attention pricking on a central drama between the pitcher and the batter, while allowing for unbelievable performances (Wil…
There are many problems with an industry that functions on the "love or money" model. In theater, this practice is most commonly expected on the fringes of the trade; the places closest to t…