Breaking String of Austin, Texas presents the New Russian Drama Festival, featuring: Strike: Two plays by Yury Klavdiev as well as a post-show discussion: “Klavdiev Performances in Rus…
Jim Brown of the Actor's Fund will speak about the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act"its implications for artists, arts businesses and arts not-for-profits as part of  Atl…
Okay: I'm a self-proclaimed arthead with only the feeblest grasp of economics. But after several seasons planning artistic programming and then seeing how many patrons actually show up for i…
This is the second post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here. I want you to take a moment to think about the first moments of your …
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater this spring for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The firs…
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, Februa…
It is not enough to demand from the theater mere perceptions, mere images of reality. The theater must arouse our desire to perceive, it must organize the fun of changing reality. Our audien…
Robert Frost famously professed the benefits, when approaching a point of divergence in a journey, of taking the road "less traveled by." Yet: I've found the travels that made all the differ…
We don't look back in order to go back, but rather to better choose what going forward looks like…In this post-election bliss for many of us, it makes sense for us to consider why we value…
When we started HowlRound a couple of years ago we intentionally avoided reviewing plays. We didn't want theater artists to wake up in the morning to a bad review. And two years later, we st…
Victory Gardens Theater and League of Chicago Theatres host a town hall discussion entitled “Playing Race” livestreaming on the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Thursday,…
Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland presents Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology.…
I wrote a play called And Then Came Tango. A play inspired by true events. A play about penguins, love, family, and youth activism. A play that seeks to expand and deepen representation in 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, Ja…
In the world of theater for young audiences, the ground is shifting under our feet: unstable and unfamiliar, far less funding, and the zeitgeist is way different than just a few years ago. A…
Rabbi Zusya of Tarnopol told his disciples, "In the world to come, they will not ask me, 'Why weren't you Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why weren't you Zusya?'" I’m an old dramaturg, a Ya…
Last November, playwright Eliza Bent had a reading of her play The Hotel Colors at the Bushwick Starr. She felt good about the reading. She felt good about the play. And afterward, when she …
This is the first post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. A Double Dog Dare Fresh off the boat from Raleigh, NC with no job prospects and the grand implosi…
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, Ja…
The Dramatists Guild, in association with Harvardwood, is pleased to present the first DG Academy event of 2013. This event will livestream for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project on T…
After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I felt like I'd felt after 9/11: grief stricken, traumatized and voiceless. In all the categories I fall in: woman, mother, playwright, h…
When preparing a pot of gumbo, one must start with the roux. Every good Louisianan knows this. The roux is the bone marrow that binds this body of savory goodness together. The rubber glue t…
Did you see me? Did you see how high I held my head? Did you see how I swayed back and forth with the wind? "Carmen Demourelle This refrain weaves in and out of a new work-in-progress perfor…
A discussion on queer performance in New Orleans requires one understanding: "We are not talking about who you fuck," as Senora Grayson stated. Grayson along with everyone interviewed for th…
Carol Bebelle is a native New Orleanian and a proud product of the New Orleans Public School System. She has more than twenty years experience in the public sector as an administrator and pl…