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The last five years have been about letting go of some new work development assumptions. One primary assumption is that new work in regional/LORT theaters is only about developing single aut…
I was a young father living in Boston over a barbershop called Jumbo's. I was a full-time substitute teacher at an elementary school by day and a fancy waiter by night. I moonlit as a playwr…
In honor of the Boston City Series running on HowlRound next week, the Center for the Theater Commons is hosting a potluck for the Boston theater community! Join Polly & Jamie (and their…
In November 2011, twenty-five theater professionals gathered in Washington, DC to discuss nonprofit and commercial collaborations aimed at the development of new theatrical work. In spirit (…
NEFA, as a nimble New England-based regional arts organization working to connect extraordinary artists and communities, also serves the region with national and international programs. For …
Care to win an awesome prize from the HowlRound crew while helping us beta test the latest Map iteration? Participate in the New Play Map Scavenger Hunt! Â Three winners will be announced …
In October of 2010 we were in tech for ReEntry at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE when I got the great news that American Records and ReEntry would be one of six participants in the New England Foun…
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of th…
This conversation with Jocelyn Prince, Connectivity Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in DC, epitomizes what I was trying to articulate in my recent HowlRound post and the conver…
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative is a grassroots advocacy group of women and men whose mission is to promote female theater artists in LA and beyond. We've been around for two a…
A treasure trove of the new work community’s data has been uncovered in this third development week. We released a set of features that displays every relationship between organization…
The documentary film A People's History of 13P will soon be available on our website. It’s intended to benefit future do-it-yourselfers who seek to take their artistic fates into their…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that hap…
Since before our implosion commenced with the closing night of Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl (p#13), the staff and playwrights of 13P have been fully engaged in the company having a kind of …
From his home studio in Brooklyn, New York"songwriter and recording producer Felix McTeigue will conduct this practical, do-it-yourself seminar on how to set up a home recording studio. He w…
Dear Holler readers, Thank you for all your excitement and support for this new column! As you know, every month I will respond to your questions about any and all things personal/profession…
On an afternoon in early August, forty people kicked a soccer ball across a field in central Massachusetts. Led by Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theatre, we kept moving in an improvised swarm…
I just turned se…seven…seventy years old. There"I said it. I got it out. But I am not retired, because I still find every minute of every hour of every day as interesting and as exciting…
Today my guest is Noah Siegler, who is the artistic director of StageNorth in Washburn, Wisconsin. There is such fresh air in this discussion"around the ways StageNorth connects with its nei…
It is well known that rural communities today face many challenges, such as declining and aging populations, youth retention, limited economic and social opportunities, depleting natural res…
The borders between farming and performance art are wonderfully blurry for me. Actually, I think we are better farmers when we approach agriculture through the arts because we can engage our…
About one-hundred years ago, George Pierce Baker, then a professor in the English Department at Harvard University, helped integrate theater production into the university first by creating …
Q: What does a “knowledge commons” look like? A: Here’s an example. Q: How is the content and data produced? A: By the community of users. “Community-sourcing” …
Dedicated to integrating culture and agriculture, the Wormfarm Institute is an evolving laboratory of the arts and ecology and fertile ground for creative work. Planting a seed, cultivating,…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happen…
