This Spring Eisa Davis was announced as the theater winner of the Alpert Award In the Arts, joyful and sad proof (yet again) that we have to look to funders and awards committees to celebrat…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where …
Today I talk with Bill O’Brien, the Senior Advisor for Program Innovation at the National Endowment for the Arts. This call is one you have to put down what you’re doing and real…
When I was recommended for the Playwrighting and Drama Teaching Assistant position at Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development (CTD) I knew I wanted to document the experience…
When Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' play Water by the Spoonful won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many called it an "upset." It seems that not many people thought a play about a Puerto Rica…
Most of us grew interested in theater because we loved to play games as children. I remember playing make-believe at eight years old with my neighbor Alan. We used felled tree branches as sw…
Quick, name five modern Canadian playwrights (Canadian natives, put your hands down). Can't do it? OK, name five Canadian plays that aren't The Drawer Boy or The Drowsy Chaperone. Having tro…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where …
The first time I went to Harlem was when I was about ten years old with my family. It was electric. Being from Alabama, I felt like I had been transported into another world, a world with bo…
The ongoing goal of Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) has always been to elevate and offer fruitful and sustainable art to the community through Hip-Hop Theater. We reach these goals by empowe…
As part of Harlem Week here on HowlRound I am speaking to a number of producing artists in the neighborhood. Here’s a conversation with yet another bundle of bright Harlem energy, J.J.…
Today I talked with three of the producers of Harlem9, a collaborative producing organization working in Harlem: Sandra A. Daley-Sharif, Bryan E. Glover, and Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly. They a…
As I walk down Striver's Row, at 139th between Adam Clayton Powell and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard, gazing upon the architecture of what is hailed as some of the most valuable real estate in…
Actor-Producer Bridgit Antoinette Evans in conversation with Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem. "You need to audition for this. It's a great play.
my place when i need my fix my deep shot my theatrical hit an artistic uplift i know where to go to find it there’s this space this place where wide, spiritually high people who stay f…
As I prepare my play for a workshop production this summer in Harlem, three memories from the village that blossomed Malcolm, Zora, James Baldwin, Immortal Technique and so many others perva…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Radha Blank continues this series. What makes an Artistic Home? For m…
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week on HowlRound is dedica…
My first few days visiting New York City, I believed I was pre-destined for Harlem. The first New Yorkers to be nice to me were Harlemites. This was years ago. Pre-Starbucks. I went into a s…
Harlem is a neighborhood that has historically been a pressure cooker for the creation of dynamic arts exploring the black experience in America. It was the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissa…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where these …
As folks are gathering in Boston this weekend for the annual TCG Conference, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with the indefatigable Laurie Baskin, TCG’s Director of Gover…
Jeremy: Kwame and Chay, though you both have a long and deep history as playwrights and directors in this country (and others), you've recently stepped into artistic director roles at Center…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Teresa Eyring continues this series. What makes an artistic home? "I …
Catch the Wall‘s workshop will be presented June 21 and 22 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. On Friday, June 22 it will be broadcast live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info…