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Thanksgiving, the simplest and most wonderful of holidays, was complicated at Granny's house. I couldn't quite hang in through the premeal two-hand touch football game (my interest waned aft…
This is part three of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrecti…
This year's Hollywood Fringe Festival "only the fourth in its history"featured two hundred and twelve separate productions in fifty different spaces for a total of more than one thousand per…
This is part two of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. In the generative stages of making a play, I imagine that a playwright might host …
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 project at howlr…
Livestreaming from New Orleans, Louisiana, slam poet Donnie Welch will be presenting a workshop performance of Leaving Dynamite "a new, original piece of slam poetry/monologue theater explor…
This is part one of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Last summer I had a happy reunion with an old friend. Mia Yoo, Artistic Director o…
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 .* For the next …
In March 2003, organizers in fifty-nine countries launched The Lysistrata Project : A Theatrical Act of Dissent. The event, which included 1,029 readings of Aristophanes' famed antiwar comed…
(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
"You might leave feeling sweaty, manhandled, or in need of a shower""not necessarily encouraging words to hear from an MC, but certainly intriguing. 7 Minutes in Heaven is a reoccurring thea…
Emerging from the One Theatre World conference on plays for young audiences, this past May, well-blended with the International Children's Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, life was pretty wondro…
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents the Art and Survival Convening livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Saturda…
Giver of Light is a new opera. It is also a liberal adaptation of the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. It is set in a landscape that is a plastic and suburban generalization from …
To date I've had fifty-four productions of my full length plays. But I've had nearly twenty-five productions that were planned and never happened. Some of these shows were supposed to happen…
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 project at howlr…
I hadn't planned to self-dramaturg my entire collection of work. I certainly hadn't planned for the process to deeply impact the way I think about my writing going forward. But this is what …
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…
Tasked with creating the text and structure of the piece, I knew only that I was writing for a solo actor and a small company of dancers. … I quickly settled on Irma as our lead player. Se…
My sister and I are sitting in the Metreon movie complex in downtown San Francisco and the lights have just lowered to start the latest Bond movie, Skyfall . I'm there for, let's be honest, …
This is a regular column featuring musings, observations, and strategies from the frontline of cultural theater-making in the 21st century. See the full column here . It's been two weeks sin…
"New York is the capital of no known foreign country," Saul Bellow once said, a view that New Yorkers might hold as deeply as people in the rest of the United States, but for us it's a reaso…
The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company p resent The First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV chan…
Longform improv is weird. Most audiences need a primer on what's happening before they fully absorb what the show is attempting to do"partially because the show is discovering what it is att…
The KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presents Story Slam livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Sunday, July 28 at 5pm PDT (Vancouver…
