2,710 stories by "Howlround"
We know that, in the aggregate, incomes and life expectancies in rural America are significantly lower; infant mortality rates and drug abuse significantly higher. Presently there is insuffi…
Six years ago, I moved to New York City and went about making new friends. As I would get to know people and start swapping stories as new friends do, I realized I would get the same reactio…
I interviewed my friend, the playwright, Catherine Filloux, by email. We email often, in any case, between Berlin, where I am based, and her home in New York. During this exchange,, though, …
Last week, the Theater Communications Group Circle Blog (U.S.) published data from their member theaters entitled Top 11 Most-Produced Playwrights of 2012-13 Season. Commenting on this li…
On a moist Miami weekend in June, I attended CityWrights, a conference spearheaded by City Theatre. Polly Carl, editor of HowlRound, gave the keynote. Long after the weekend was over, her wo…
As we wade through the very compelling data coming at us from the surveys on New York Times Critic Watch a few things have emerged: 1) We need a few more surveys to get to our optimal number…
Work on the New Play Map version 4 has kicked off! And we want you to help us. Seriously. We have completed the first of five "sprints" with the web development cooperative Quilted�…
This post is the eighth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow’s recent article, “The Value of Collaboration.” The most rewarding feelings in life are often results of experiences we ha…
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow's recent article, "The Value of Collaboration." For me, there is no better joy than collaboration when it's working well. And if you've work…
I Blues by Italy’s MatèTeatro is presented as part of The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Watch the performance live on #NEWPLAY TV on Saturday, Septembe…
Shortly after my play The Children premiered this past spring at The Theatre @ Boston Court, an incredible thing happened: I got a job copywriting. Thirty hours a week. A permanent writing g…
The following is re-posted from David Lan, Artistic Director at London’s Young Vic regarding supporting the case of David Cecil. Read more about this case here and here. As you may …
It's fall and I'm reading plays. I know it's fall because the silly pirate hoodie is out. I like to sit on the couch on crisp fall days with the hoodie hood up, football muted in the backgro…
We are local, national, and global communities and networks of people doing similar work. What do we share amongst ourselves at every level? And how can we do this better? What are the value…
Recently a short, sharp, shock of a Twitter exchange broke out over this video of music educator Eric Booth drawing a distinction between art and entertainment. Here is the snippet at issue,…
Though we’ve been a bit quiet here at NYTCriticWatch, we are working through our many responses to understand the patterns. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, we’d …
Here’s video and social media experiment that we’re dying to test out on you. For the best results, have your smartphone fired up with a free QR code scanning app on Android o…
For the past eighteen years, PlayGround has been working to promote and support the San Francisco Bay Area’s best new playwrights through a unique collection of new play incubator prog…
Today I talk with Jeni Mahoney about the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho where she is the Artistic Director. If this group is new to you, take a look at their New Play M…
Our Toes Grip the Edge: Where Prophecy Meets the Abyss Presented by Mugwumpin, Theatre of Yugen, and hosted by Z Space (San Francisco, USA). Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, Se…
I've been wondering about us… About artists. And artist institutions. Not only as creators of or sites for creating products, but as entire organisms that participate in the making and rem…
Join us for a discussion between two exciting and prolific writers"Moisés Kaufman (Gross Indecency, The Laramie Project) and Rajiv Joseph, author of the Pulitzer-finalist Bengal Tiger at th…
Before my sophomore year in college even began, I was already aware of my destiny for the summer after: an internship. There was no way to wheedle out of the prospect; it seemed as if every …
What problems could we solve if we had a billion little magical instruments that could locate useful things and ideas that other people could make use of and benefit from, and then be able c…
