Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers present The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours , bringing together the Boston theater community to write, rehearse, and mount an evening of new…
The Rule of St. Benedict, which has guided those in religious life for approximately 1500 years, says: "Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, 'I came as …
I remember halfway through my first term I forced my dramaturgy professor to admit he didn't know my name. There were six of us in the class. As I remember it, later that that same day, a di…
The Latino Theater Alliance/Los Angeles is group comprised of Latino theater artists and professionals based in the Greater Los Angeles area, whose individual and collective voices contribut…
The last time I wrote for HowlRound , in October 2011, I was director of new play development at a theater. Since then, I have turned to the work of solitary writing. I have been in a kind o…
If you are thinking of getting an MFA and are fortunate enough to be accepted, don't go. I write this presuming you have to pay for the degree somehow. I write this also acknowledging that I…
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. Th…
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…
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep'em coming"write to me at [email protected] . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, Help! I'm at my wit's end. I just finished grad school …
When you are possessed by a dream, when you are the inhabitant of a dream, you are driven by this, by a kind of heart beating."Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous I dream m…
This post is the fifteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
I was twenty-three years old when I applied to grad school. That part matters. I was more than a year past my college graduation, long enough to have a real job and a reasonable-for-New York…
The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz takes as its premise a replaying with variation of the final scene from The Seagull . Nina, an actress, returns to the town where she grew up. She meets K…
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents their next Plays in Progress program with an in-person and online developmental reading of Andrew Kramer's new play Crying for Lion…
"What do you need?" Sarah Bellamy asks the awed group of students from Twin Cities' high schools gathered in a circle on Penumbra's main stage. The stage where children have been born, where…
The central set piece in Ragged Wing Ensemble's Time Sensitive is made of one of the most challenging materials to use in theater. It's heavy. It's messy. It's slippery. You can touch it, bu…
When I entered the New London Theatre just near Covent Garden to see War Horse in November 2011 four years after its world premiere, the Tuesday evening performance was most assuredly sold o…
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde This Wilde quote introduces the script for Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, produced by Walking Sh…
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was wary of attending the theater. LA is an industry town, and if there's one thing I'm not interested in, it's staged screenplays. Don't get me wrong"I …
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. Th…
My hesitation in writing this post is analogous to my skepticism of MFA programs. Both carry the implication that there is some sort of practical path, a series of choices by which one can i…
This piece continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatre (WIT).…
Strange Attractor Theatre present their latest original performance play, Enlightenment on E Floor North , livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm AKDT (Juneau) / 10:30pm…
Dear HowlRound Readers, Conversation Curators, Mappers, and Livestreamers: Be a part of building a new arts economy that will support the creative lives of artists in a dignified and equitab…
At the end of a good play, many people give praise to the playwrights, actors, directors, and technicians who have contributed to the piece as a whole. Few audience members think about the p…