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Check out this short video about crowdsourcing from Swift Community. The long definition of crowdsourcing is ”when a company takes a job that was once performed by employees and out…
To continue the focus this week on ArtsEmerson, the Commons, and the College, I have the sheer pleasure of talking with Anne Bogart. There is so much here we could have talked for hours. Suc…
Ten years ago we connected in a moment of mutual frustration at a TCG gathering in Portland, Oregon, called New Works, New Ways. We recognized instantly in our feeling on the outside of that…
I've joked for years that a nail in the coffin of a professional directing career is to teach. As more of us join the rank of the "teaching-professionals," or "working-professionals who teac…
 As some of you may know, The Foundry Theatre frequently hosts different sorts of public events (separate from our productions) where artists might find meaningful exchange with people ou…
What makes an artistic home? An artistic home is established when a group of people collaborate together over a long period of time in order to reach a common artistic goal. It is also ident…
In December of last year, RareWorks Theatre Company, a student-run organization at Emerson College, put together a workshop of a brand spanking new musical written by Ryan Scott Oliver and B…
We are really excited to be heading to Emerson with Polly Carl and David Dower to continue the work we began in 2009 on the American Voices New Play Institute through the creation of the Cen…
This week on HowlRound.com we’re talking about the move of several of the American Voices New Play Institute’s programs and staff from Arena Stage in Washington, DC to the newly …
The next iteration of the New Play Map is on the way! We have completed the second of four "sprints" with our web developers, Quilted. We want to keep you informed of our progress a…
I've been asked to reflect on The Center for the Theater Commons: why Emerson; why now; what's the level of professional engagement? Before attempting answers to these questions, I want to c…
It is a great pleasure to welcome The Center for the Theater Commons (The Commons) to Emerson College and the Office of the Arts. Through our academic programs, Emerson College is already sh…
This is a work of total subjectivity. I want you to know that from the outset. I also want you to know that I'm not tight with Mike Daisey. I mean, I've met him. He sat behind me on a plane …
As the New Play Institute transitions to Emerson College as the new Center for the Theater Commons, we celebrate the accomplishments of the previous year with our annual report. This report …
People have asked me how I chose my directing "style," and I never know how to answer. How do you even make such a choice? Is there ever a choice to be made? How do you decide one day that y…
On Monday, April 16th Victory Gardens Theater is hosting the One-Minute Play Festival at 7:30pm CST. Playwrights Foundation, Cornerstone Theater Company, University of Evansville, and Primar…
On Wednesday and Thursday April 18 and 19, #NEWPLAY TV will webcast concert readings of the national finalists of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Ten Minute Play Award a…
Today I talk with DC-based playwright Heather McDonald. I have read, seen, and even directed Heather’s beautiful plays for more than twenty years. You can hear how she weaves a story"t…
Taffety Punk is a DC-based theater ensemble committed to igniting “a public passion for theater by making the classical and the contemporary exciting, meaningful, and affordable.…
Jason: What is the Kennedy Center's relationship with DC and the American theater? Gregg: The Kennedy Center proper is the nation's performing arts center, and one of our principal interests…
As I carve out time and brain space to write this post, I am flooded with pride for the artists producing independent theater in DC. There have been many companies that have been "born" thro…
The next iteration of the New Play Map is on the way! We have completed the first of four "sprints" with our software developers, Quilted. We want to keep you informed of our progress as it …
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Molly Smith continues this series. What makes an artistic home? I hav…
“Dreaming the Americas,” the 6th Annual NoPassport Theatre Conference will stream live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info this Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15 from the Arizona…
Theater J‘s artistic director Ari Roth (@arirothdc) will be co-hosting the Howl this week on Twitter using the #newplay tag. This week’s conversation will focus on the DC theater…
