This is a look at the impact a critic can and does have on an entire community, how critics can nurture that community, and how the shrinking of the critical landscape in Chicago and elsewhe…
Is ensemble a group of people working together over a long duration? Is it a non-hierarchical organizational structure? A way of being and working together with a shared sense of priorities?
British Council USA Arts presents The Illusion of Power and the Power of Illusion: Viewing Media Through an Artistic Lens , a livestreaming panel discussion on the global, peer produced, ope…
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 .* Join us Thurs…
These contemporary installations forcefully connect past injustices to the present-day debates over how Africans are treated in the EU. These are not characters, but the actual people themse…
I think about paradoxical needs this experience embodies"for community and solitude; structures and flexibility; stability and change"and the need for all of it, simultaneously, in our lives…
We have a particular kind of creative and enterprising expertise that we should recognize as abundance. Focusing on ourselves as exceptionally resourceful, rather than under-resourced, allow…
Casting gets at the very root of how we tell our stories. The bodies we see onstage make our experiences visible. For invisible people, like trans and gender nonconforming people, it is nece…
We had to keep stereotypes at bay. Not just that we reject them but enough has been said about the India-America relationship in media, books, and the rapidly imported mass culture. Can ther…
Brian Herrera's solo show, "I Was the Voice of Democracy" bravely explores the ways we betray our best selves. Caridad Svich's gorgeous plays do everything from confronting our most pressing…
The world has gone dark, and no one will ever watch The Simpsons again. This is a melancholy thought, especially for someone who has been watching The Simpsons his entire life. That caustic …
I wonder what kind of seismic shift would occur in our field if we measured impact beyond percentages of resources and audience members. How can we better value the deep reverberations of ge…
The piece is not only a morality play focusing on issues of vengeance and justice, or a play that weighs the value of one man's life versus the good of the many, but it is also an examinatio…
As time passed, my cynical eye grew more nuanced not only as I began to recognize and remember award names, but also value the work of both winners and other nominees. Still, I couldn't quit…
The Radar L.A. Festival presents a Professional Symposium convening live on on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, September 26th and Friday…
Connections between the professional theater women of the past, the present, and the future worldwide are germane here. Most people have never heard of names like Rosamond Gilder, Martha Coi…
The Dramatists Guild of America presents the Dramatists Guild Academy Seminar An Evening With the O'Neill which will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network…
Bienvenidos! I would like to welcome you to Café Onda, an online gathering space in partnership with HowlRound that will feature regular content of the Latino/a Theatre Commons . Why a Lati…
We watch the bell, silent and expectant. Her fingers keep brushing it, but it doesn't ring. As in any durational work that turns on failure, there is a Beckettian element: as the artist jump…
HowlRound held a conversation for students and faculty last year at Emerson College to discuss the creation of a theater commons. The conversation, however, quickly turned to how the school'…
Around the Teapot in Los Angeles presents a performance gathering Adventuring Together: Ensembles, Collectives, Laboratories & Networks livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open s…
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, VA presents a reading of David Jacobi's Mai Dang Lao livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on …
From 2008 to the present, playwright Adrienne Kennedy and Egyptian scholar Nadia Maher were in correspondence. This is an edited selection of emails they exchanged while Nadia was working on…
I was hoping to encounter a global story that could be turned into a tremendous play about a greener, smarter global future. But, yet again, my imagination did not match reality. Bangalore, …
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 network at howlr…