We shouldn't be surprised that Walt Disney has something up his sleeve. He is a showman, after all, and a showman always keeps something clever in reserve. So when Walt"moustachioed, imperia…
A Conversation With Luis Valdez, Founding Artistic Director Of El Teatro Campesino . This event will be livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7pm CDT (…
Establishing Latino Theater Alliances within Texas and Across the Nation Watch this meeting live on HowlRound TV on Friday, June 7 at 2pm-4:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4pm-6:30pm CDT (Chicago…
HowlRound TV will be livestreaming the following six events from the 2013 Theatre Communications Group (TCG) National Conference in Dallas, Texas. For real-time conversation, use Twitter has…
I wrote my first play under the guidance of Paula Vogel and Donna DiNovelli at Brown University. I'd been making plays as part of a collaborative ensemble with the Pig Iron Theatre Company f…
Anne GarcÃa-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Kristina Wong: My best playwriting teacher has been trial by fire. Learning by doing has taught me everything. Most of my work is creat…
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…
Anne GarcÃa-Romero: Who were your teachers/mentors? Daniel Alexander Jones: Dr. Constance E. Berkley at Vassar; John Emigh and Aishah Rahman at Brown were great teachers. I apprenticed wi…
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…
Every citizen has at least one dramatic arc that is her or his life. Some are so agitated by it that they care to write it as a play. Spoken text gets separated out from movement and action,…
Listen, I'm not sure how to say this without sounding ignorant, so, toot toot, all aboard the self-immolation train: soot and spit kind of made me feel like I had autism. I entered the Galvi…
It was a sunny day in May and LA Stage Alliance was hosting LA Stage Day, a gathering of Los Angeles theater folk centered around inspirational presentations, workshops, and breakout session…
Can the Great American Novel become a great American play? When the novel is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , the answer would seemingly be a resounding, "No." All novels resist adaptation to s…
Ever since January of this year, NoPassport theater alliance and press in collaboration with twenty-six playwrights (twenty-four of which contributed plays, two of which contributed an essay…
Standing over a fifteen-foot birdie putt on the last hole of the 2008 US Open, Tiger Woods had to make it. If he made it he'd get into a playoff. If he missed, he was out. "I kept telling my…
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…
But once the Culture Coin bank opened, things began to change. Now the small companies could purchase things like goods and services in the cultural sector with Culture Coins, instead of cas…
In the Canadian national mythology, the story of the War of 1812 is, as noted Canadian historian and author Pierre Berton once wrote, the story of "the war that Canada won, or to put it more…
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…
"My head was full of misty fumes of doubt." "Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road In 1990, I was organizing union farmworkers in Deland, Florida. I had just graduated with a master's de…
Imagine having a year of rehearsal and the hope of a five-year run. Imagine meeting one to three times a week to explore a classic text, or creating a new play and having months to hone it i…
However, after some thought and post-panel vino, I realized my fatigue isn't racial at all. It's much more about ownership fatigue"a fatigue informed by holding up the conversation around ow…
The mission of the Great Plains Theatre Conference at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska is to enable playwrights and theater artists to share time, energy, and talent in the …
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents a livestreaming performance of Tori Keenan-Zelt's new work The Egypt Play, or The Misses Blake on a Holiday Jihad . Watch it live o…