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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…
Change is hard for many people, most often because we fear the unknown. What will happen if I change? Suppose things don't get better? It's easy to get stuck doing the same behavior over and…
When I set out to produce Juliet & Romeo , a queered adaptation of Romeo & Juliet featuring two women as the star-crossed lovers, I knew that I wanted to focus on three themes"homele…
With the Network of Ensemble Theaters' (NET) MicroFest Honolulu about to begin on O'ahu, I sat down with Kumu Hula (hula teacher) Vicky Holt Takamine to talk about hula, the Hawaiian languag…
The One-Minute Play Festival & Victory Gardens Theater present The Third Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Tuesday, June 18 at 5:30pm PDT (San Fran…
I never think about what I do. I never plan or plot or even think about looking at the big picture. When Eric of Honolulu Theatre for Youth asked me how I manage to balance the seemingly dis…
Just as HowlRound was finishing up its tweet chat on " Making a Career, Making a Living in the Arts ," the news broke that a judge for the Southern District of New York ruled that Fox Search…
One of the greatest things about living in Hawaii is its cultural diversity. The unique cultural make up of our islands provides a spectacular melting pot of colors for our ethnic canvas. Ea…
On a recent May night, on two stages in Washington, DC, two separate demigod kings suffered and grew wise. At Constellation Theater , Gilgamesh fluttered the sleeves of his royal raiment and…
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents "From the Dirty War and Beyond" "a conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona and Jorge Onofri livestreaming on HowlRou…
Arena Stage in Washington, DC presents a work-in-progess performance of force/collision's Trust Me which will livestream on HowlRound TV Sunday, June 16 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7pm CDT …
National Review 's roving correspondent Kevin Williamson made himself a folk hero of the Twittersphere when, at a recent performance of the new musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet o…
In the Aurora Theatre's promo video about The Arsonists , by Max Frisch, director Mark Jackson explains the choice to set the play not in Frisch's postwar Germany but in a world seemingly ou…
Working Theater is a NYC theater company, now in its twenty-eighth year. Its mission is to create theater for and about the working majority. In 2010, during its twenty-fifth Anniversary Sea…
Hawaii is not a big state, about 1.4 million people, fortieth in population although thirteenth in density. Two-thirds of the state's population lives on Oahu and the city and county of Hono…
Network of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Honolulu National Summit and Learning Exchange livestreaming on HowlRound TV . Sunrise and sunset performances, graffiti artists, pre-sch…
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…
Beyond the Capitals, a project of the Center for International Theater Development , aims to create meaningful encounters between new generations of theater animators in Russia and the Unite…
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…
Considering the capacities of theater for spatial play, does the adherence to linearity formatting…limit more than just playwriting poetics and innovation? What are the broader implication…
The One-Minute Play Festival & Actor's Express present The Second Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Tuesday June 11 at 5pm PDT (Los Angeles), 7pm C…
Can we be in two places simultaneously? Can we alter what is real with what is fiction? Can we abandon ourselves and yet be fully in control? And what does theater have to do with any of thi…
Anne GarcÃa-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Carlos Murrillo: My education in theater was pretty scattershot. I studied acting as an undergrad at Syracuse, dropped out after less t…
This is a condensed version of the introductory essay from a new report called The Arts Diversity Index that was commissioned by Theatre Bay Area with funds from the California Arts Council …
Anne GarcÃa-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Brooke Berman: Maria Irene Fornes, Marsha Norman, Anne Bogart, Tina Shepard, and Chris Durang. Irene and Marsha were the two biggies th…