When I first met with Seattle Children's Theatre a few years go to pitch adapting one of the American Girl stories, the artistic director seemed momentarily stunned by my choice. She expecte…
Playwrights Foundation presents Des Voix…Found in Translation: A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation featuring plays by Marion Aubert, Nathalie Fillion, and Samu…
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin I have an imaginary goat named Valencia who loves Payday candy bars, …
Do you have a “tribe?” My first and most important tribe is a familial one, because I love these people and have crossed an ocean with these people and together we've settled in …
When I arrived, in 1998, to work at Children's Theatre Company, the largest children's theater in the United States, I knew very little about the field of Theater for Young Audiences. I arri…
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in the final installment of …
This trio"whose shows include The Book of Mormon (Bobby Lopez) and Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)"will discuss working in the musical theater today, from their days as classmates…
We at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community on Twitter"want to discuss in this week's Weekly Howl. Be the community’s idea generator and submit and vote on yo…
Today I talk with Ilana Brownstein, known to #newplay followers as @bostonturgy. She’s the founder of the Playwrights’ Commons in Boston and we’re going to be very involved…
Jamie: What are the technical residencies at Z Space? And what made you start offering them? Lisa: Our technical residencies subsidize artists' use of our theater, lights, sound system, tech…
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three pa…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Tlaloc Rivas continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in this three part series as she t…
Riffing off the “demand-side” concept that Cheryl Ikemiya talks about in the recent David Dower Friday Phone Call, we at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community…
This is local government filtered through the lens of art. Why is that a good thing? We hope seeing governance as a performance of power, rather than an application of it, can be liberating.…
Austin’s Hidden Room Theatre, Brisbane, Australia’s Anywhere Festival in partnership with #NEWPLAY TV invite you to enjoy a backstage sneak peek of the very first transatlantic r…
Do you read reviews? Sure you read the one that everyone posts on your Facebook wall with “congratulations!” next to it. And you know you’re not supposed to read any …
I am the founder and producing artistic director of Live Girls! Theater, a company that produces and develops new work by women in Seattle. Since most of my adult life has centered around bu…
I somehow had the good fortune to spend time on the phone with Cheryl Ikemiya, Senior Program Officer for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in the middle of a very busy seaso…
Braden Abraham, Associate Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory talks to me as part of the Seattle City Series this week. Contributors have been talking about the Writers’ Group there…
The recent census data reveals that Seattle is one of the "whitest big cities" in the country. Sixty-six percent of the people who completed the census here specified they were White. Intere…
Vince: When did you start writing plays in Seattle? Yussef: I began focusing on playwriting when I stopped all thoughts of becoming an actor"and later, a filmmaker (I made a short film in Se…
I came to Seattle in September 2005. Invited to ski in Leavenworth, WA, a lovely town in the foothills of the Cascades two hours from Seattle, I was struck by how perfect the venue was fo…
If you missed today’s live broadcast of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman speaking from Atlanta, Georgia, you can view it here as well as in the #NEWPLAY TV vide…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Liz Engelman continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…