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Our culture often has a negative view of the MFA degree. With no guaranteed return on investment and a high cost, many see it as a waste of time and money. One can write, act, direct, or dra…
Ghosts, the Ultimate Immigrants: Asian Ghosts in American Theater This symposium at Bay Area Playwrights Festival produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on th…
As I look back on the twenty-one years I've been with Mu Performing Arts (originally known as Theater Mu), and face the reality that I am soon to become the dearly departed (so to speak), th…
This symposium produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Friday, July 26 at 2pm PDT (Sa…
Jacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright of growing renown"a 2012 Theater Communications Group Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena. In The Ham…
When I decided to apply to an MFA program it was 2006. I was living in NYC, working as a paralegal, and feeding a budding sneaker addiction. Even though I sat in a cubical checking briefs, I…
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…
And so, how do we to make art in a world that seems obsessed with surface"a surface that is, technologically, and, ironically, about to disappear? The answer for theater, I believe, lies in …
I knew I wanted to create theater, but what the hell did that even mean? There was something inside of me that was drawn to exploring a question or thought theatrically, but I wasn't really …
(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…
I had an opportunity to talk to Lily this morning and I know she shares in this apology with me. I believe so strongly in the work of HowlRound because I long for open and transparent conver…
The Playwrights Foundation's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco presents " Playwrights' Roundtable: Mapping Your Career, Taking Action " which will livestream on the global, peer-p…
What is it about puppets that charm, disarm, and delight? Is it, as Heinrich von Kleist said in his seminal essay "On the Marionette Theater," that puppets "lack [the] self-consciousness" of…
Graduate school was intense. I moved three times in four years. At least twice, someone yelled the n-word at me as I walked to (or near) campus. I was broke. While my friends from college we…
I'm not trying to say that my liberal colleagues aren't in the communities; they are. But I do believe that the grand stages leave audiences as passive observers, and this isn't what a liber…
By creating in New Orleans, I hope to be a charger for the new American theater movement. A movement where regional theater returns to the idea of what theater can be: art designed to serve …
Watch this performance of The Shakespearean Jazz Show livestreaming on the global, peer-produced, opensource HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Thursday, July 18 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7p…
In the past few years, California Shakespeare Theater , under the direction of Jonathan Moscone, has been moving toward being as much about California as it is about Shakespeare. No more doe…
Midway through orientation week"awash in a sea of new acronyms and small talk"the seventy-some new students of the Yale School of Drama are herded into a theater to hear speeches from the he…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project at …
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…
The more time I spent in Rwanda and Uganda, the more inexpert I became. I didn't know how to negotiate for a good price for chapati in the market. ...I didn't know how to spend long, unstruc…
The Living Room Theatre of Kansas City, MO presents the livestreaming of The Death of Cupid: A Whiskey Musical on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv …
A single review can change everything, and it often does. That's not news to the theater community"even Alec Bladwin acknowledged it in an insightful and straightforward article in The Huffi…
There has been much talk in recent years about the lack of "diversity" in American theater. This four part series is meant to redefine the conversation in a way that will move us past the bu…
