The NYT Critic Watch project was designed to gives us some numbers about modern theater criticism. We are awash in opinion, in curiosity, in hurt feelings, in hopes for a hit, and in the dua…
I get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much…
So have I got a job for you? You get paid next to nothing, but if you work hard for many years, refine your craft and get lucky, then you will still probably earn less than a first-year asso…
While I was the theater critic for The Denver Post , I never quite understood the malicious glee so many seemed to be taking in the irreversible downward slide of the corporate newspaper ind…
Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays presents a livestreaming panel discussion Charting the Course: New Play Directors in Conversation . This panel will lives…
Asked to consider criticism in the American theater, my mind kept bouncing back to two distinct factors that it seems critics never mention. The fact that makers of the work may not pay cons…
Once, outside a performance, an actor/director/playwright (I'll never tell who) approached me in a kind of passive-aggressive fervor. S/he began asking how I became a critic, what were my qu…
On Wednesday, April 3, there will be two events at Emerson College in Boston involving Suzan-Lori Parks. Both events will be livestreamed on the global, open-source, peer-produced #NEWPLAY T…
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 4 …
Say you walk out of the theater having seen a show you hated, that you experienced as an assault on your senses, a waste of your time, or both. Who can you tell about it? If you're lucky eno…
There is nothing like an existential crisis to get one popping up with a newsroom like Engine31 . When arts journalists started losing their staff jobs by the bushel load (around fifty perce…
This is the second in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process of s…
Dear esteemed HowlRound readers and theater makers, Just over two years in to publishing HowlRound , we've launched a new and improved website that now features an archive, and a more robust…
Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays presents a livestreaming panel discussion The Playwright as Teacher and Student. This panel will livestream on the peer-p…
This is Dario Fo's 2013 International Theatre Institute's World Theatre Day Message translated from the original Italian version by Mirko Grewing (Milan) and Douglas Howe (New York). This En…
But no, not all practices are built on these foundations. Jobbing in artists, short rehearsals, top-down administration, black history month diversity, chatting with a guest artist on the fi…
It was a cold and familiar shift. This group, when introduced to my six-foot-tall, African American, Ivy League"educated, world-traveled self, had perceived me as one thing. I could see they…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions, in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, many…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions, in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, many…
Emma Rice is quite right to identify music and dance as hallmarks of her aesthetic style because these are the elements that make her work stand out. Through popular music, like the blues in…
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, March 2…
In this digital age, where technology has led to increased globalization and cultural exchange, it is not rare to find theater companies who tour their work abroad. How does this travel impa…
The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance announces the 2013 Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op and will be livestreaming the official commencement cere…
In honor of World Theatre Day, the NYCWTD Coalition presents a reading of the Around-the-Globe Chain Play at the Lark Play Development Center . This reading will livestream on # NEWPLAY TV o…