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 Thursd…
Brad : Gender parity and other kinds of diversity issues seem to be so front - burner right now, but it's not like people haven't been thinking and talking and writing about this for a long …
The day after Christmas, I sat in our organization's closed offices with Cindy Im, Theatre Bay Area's development manager, to go over some upcoming grant proposals. The rest of the staff was…
A couple of months ago we announced that we would add criticism to the HowlRound site. The idea met with both great enthusiasm and deep skepticism. We expected this. When we originally discu…
You can't be in Austin very long without hearing someone wax lyrical about the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you're not familiar with that legendary venue, just know that the grandiose na…
I'm going to take the precarious position that, as designers, what we put on stage in front of an audience should never be an apology. Why should lack of resources become an excuse for shodd…
I had been dreaming about Austin long before I met it. Austin was the Valentine you wish was in your class. The cool one, lean, long, with the shiny eyes, copper brown skin, silver smile, ra…
We're lucky to live in Austin. We're lucky to live in a community that's creative and hard working and confident and intelligent. All this new work and all these open minds. We're lucky to l…
ArtsEmerson , Boston is pleased to invite online viewers to watch a special Viewpoint Workshop led by SITI Company Member Leon Ingulsrud and that will include Emerson College students. You c…
It is then the honorable responsibility of those theater makers most concerned with the cultural impact of digital media on our lives to live in the belly of the beast, to hammer out what th…
The Dramatists Guild of America is thrilled to announce the fourth event in the new Conservatory series: a bookwriting seminar with celebrated librettist, and former Dramatists Guild preside…
We've brought puppeteers from New York, Boston, California, and Chicago to present short works, and featured local companies The Hey Lollies and Private Lives Puppet Theatre. Glass Half Full…
Whether it's the next hot band coming out of SXSW, a promising tech start-up, or the latest fusion cuisine, Austin has a love for creating and consuming the new. Less formal and more liberal…
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 Thursd…
Because well, here's the thing"Austin isn't a theater town. So why in the world would I recommend you move to Austin, or extended-visit Austin, or not leave Austin? Because Austin is a maker…
The Bottom Line: A theater's community extends further than its weekly payroll list"if your staff or leadership prey on artists using institutional access as cover, you've got a problem, and…
Jody Christopherson: What sparked your interest in "geek" theater? Crystal Skillman : Geek theater, while a movement of its own, is something that is very personal to me. I was made fun of u…
Arizona State University in Tempe's School of Theatre and Film presents the w orld premiere of soot and spit written by Charles Mee and directed by Kim Weild. Watch the livestreaming of the …
I was a theater critic for five years. Then I got better. Okay, that's a cheap shot. The fact is, I'm thankful for my time as the lead theater critic for Seattle Weekly from 1995 to 2000. Fo…
The Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, Tempe presents its third biennial symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking on Friday, April 12 a…
A few months ago we put out a call for Commons Producers to help us track the activities of the fourteen playwright residencies HowlRound is charged with documenting. The response was overwh…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thursday, April 11…
This keynote address was delivered on March 25, 2013 at The Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op at University of Texas-Austin. Watch it here . There've been times in m…
Some thoughts on San Francisco-based Mugwumpin's The Great Big Also. Prophetic movements are part of our marrow as Americans. We are the country of John Winthrop's City upon the Hill, of Sha…
Panglossian Productions will present the second installment in its new Plays in Progress series: a live and on-line developmental reading of Steven Young's new play, The King's Face , hosted…