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We frequently heard people refer to it"often pejoratively"as a "museum city." And perhaps, it seemed to us, the museum-like quality of the place did influence the work being made there"two s…
Help co-create Culture Coin! Dear HowlRound reader: We've made it to the semi-finals in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual National Challenge ! To move forward to the finals we need your help. Cul…
Since the polls closed on election day, the fate of the Republican Party remains front-page news. "Demographics will doom Republican Party," the Chicago Sun-Times blared the day after the el…
What's bubbling up under the sidewalk of the American theater? Shifting demographics. Institutional regional theaters cannot continue to program exclusively for an audience of white, baby bo…
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…
Dramatists Guild of America presents Social Media from the Playwright's Perspective. This event will be live on HowlRound TV on Tuesday, May 21 at 2:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4:30pm CDT (Au…
A. Rey Pamatmat: In the lobby for a production of my play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them I overheard a woman say, "This play would get done everywhere if the main characters weren't Asi…
Note: I participate in the Creative Producers in Training program in the Office of the Arts at Emerson College . The program aims to build a cohort of creative producers through mentorship a…
In his eagerness to cross genres, Byrne is like a much more talented, much less irritating James Franco. Conceptual art is best left to the professionals, but rock is Byrne's beat, and Here …
I remember sitting in a theater history course in college and my professor telling the story of Richard and Cuthbert Burbage tearing down The Theatre with the help of The Lord Chamberlin's M…
With Culture Coin, we aim to put the "equity" back into "sweat equity." Who does the current arts economy serve? If the answer is: "just a few," why don't we, as culture workers, collaborate…
One of my all-time favorite play titles is Christopher Durang's 'dentity Crisis. It's minimalist genius: the personal crisis, the dropped "I." Well, it's 'dentity crisis time in the nonprofi…
Though the integration of theater and performance work in journals like PAJ and TDR has ostensibly addressed the rift between these practices, we are still reluctant to regard performance ar…
Arena Stage presents the third annual Voices of Now Festival of new plays written and created by thirteen youth ensembles from the Washington DC metropolitan area. 175 artists, ages eleven t…
Prior to the opening night performance of Beneatha's Place by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, join CENTERSTAGE from Baltimore for a discussion with playwrights on "Expanding the African …
A Conversation With Bartlett Sher co - hosted by Dramatists Guild of America and Harvardwood will livestream on HowlRound TV on Thursday, May 16 at 3:30pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30pm CDT (Aus…
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…
I have spent my professional life in intersections of the commercial and not-for-profit theater. I started work in the mid-seventies when the not-for-profit theater and the commercial theate…
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep'em coming"write to me at [email protected] . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, I need some help. I am a theater maker running a small …
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…
What's complicated…is the underlying assumption about the role of theater in society"that theater is an art form that can affect people's lives. Michael says he considers Cornerstone to be…
Tennessee Rep in Nashville presents the Ingram New Works Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV at Saturday, May 11 through Tuesday, May 14. The Ingram New Works Project was created by Tenne…
Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota presents the annual Young Playwrights Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, May 11. This event is the culmination of Florida Studio Theatre's…
