The Under the Radar Festival symposium which will include keynote speeches and panel discussions will be livestreamed on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info tomorrow- Thursday, January 5th …
Over the past few months we've been in discussions about the possibility of moving the programs to Emerson College, which is a place that specializes in arts and media. And of course, colleg…
We’re kicking off the first Microfund for Artists Project – Welcome to The New York Times Critic Watch project " a reader-fueled experiment attempting to give some numbers to …
By all measures of intern metrics, my experiences as an intern at seven theater organizations in New York and Chicago have all been pretty wonderful. I've cultivated crucial relationships wi…
we must be less precious about our theaters and much more visionary about the role that theater can play in making places that can change people's lives. click on the title to read the full…
Erin: Where does an idea for a new project come from within your group? Steven: Everything has to be in consensus and that is hard. Slanguage, which was our first major produced show, develo…
The #NEWPLAY Community News & Information Sourcing Project:Â Twitter’s open system and hashtag searching feature enables our field’s online community to rapidly share and a…
I'm a musical theater composer. It's with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely aware of the stigma of the term "musical the…
But maybe art should hurt. It should certainly provoke. (If a work of art provokes nothing, can we even call it art?) The question is: what will galvanize audiences to believe that provocati…
Preventative care for theater practitioners starts with believing that creativity and imagination have to be rooted in all of the activities that surround that rehearsal room"a series of con…
Are you familiar with any of these plays? Stand-Up Tragedy. Daytrips. Romance Language. A Place With The Pigs. From The Mississippi Delta. Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad. Pill Hill. Messiah. In…
The Microfund for Artists is a grant program for projects that aim to permanently disrupt our current understanding and practices in the theater field. Â A project can take any form and ca…
Through acts of imagination and expressive action, civic theater builds bridges. It synthesizes complex issues and ideas, it builds relationships, and it leverages the specific people in a r…
I hear more and more stories focused on ways of partnering, of aligning resources and competencies. I think we are going to hear more stories about community connections and ways in which ne…
Mid-career is that moment most playwrights find themselves at the edge of an abyss. The moment can last years, during which the excitable support our field bestows on emerging and early-care…
Erika Chong Shuch Bio Page Deborah Cullinan Bio Page Deborah: Erica let's start with what first turned you onto performance? Erica: Well this isn't necessarily what first turne…
Theater should stop serving the function of making money, for which it has never been and never will be suited, and start serving the revelation and shaping of the process of living, for whi…
Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers walk into a room… It's not so much the set-up for a joke as it is the beginning of a fifteen-month collaboration that will ultimately …
If the spirit moves add rhythm, add music, add your piece This speech is a collaboration with the future of American theater. click on the title to read the full article on HowlRound.com
Recently I had the opportunity to write and perform a new solo play. I had mixed feelings about taking on the project. After all, I hadn't created a solo performance in more than five years,…
And in what feels like an unbridgeable divide, all Haves seem smug and all Have Nots seem whiny. But the question we have to ask ourselves is are we planning to fight each other to the death…
I am a director. I am a playwright. It has taken me many years of hard work to come to appreciate what each of those professions require and to experience them both independently and combine…
Richard Nelson Bio Page Aaron Malkin Bio Page Aaron: I saw Sad and Sweet and I was really taken by its urgency. It often seems like something happens and four years later there…
The men and women who feel compelled to write for our form, do not aspire to have their words reach millions of people, or make tons of money, as their film and television cohorts do. For so…
Who cares what people like or don't like? What do they understand and feel? That's the question worth grappling with. click on the title to read the full article on HowlRound.com