6,588 stories from HowlRound
By Ash Marinaccio, Zoe Lafferty. Ash talks with Zoe Lafferty, founder of Artists on the Frontline, about artist-led citizen journalism in Palestine's Jenin refugee camp and the role of polit…
By Kristin Marting. Basil Twist is an award winning puppeteer (including MacArthur and Rome prizes) and director of HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program.
By . This energizing gathering convenes global arts leaders, cultural innovators, and a vibrant community of more than 350 professionals to explore bold ideas for strengthening the live and …
By Martin Boross, Tara Khozein, Diana Delgado, Hope Orange. What makes us want to immerse, and what makes us want to flee?
By Munroe Forbes Shearer. In May 2025, the International Presenting Commons (IPC) convened to discuss the state of international cultural exchange.
By Jamie Gahlon. Outgoing HowlRound director Jamie Gahlon reflects on fifteen years of commons-based learning, organizing, discourse, and gathering with HowlRound Theatre Commons.
By Shereen Saif. Mrichchakatikam (The Little Clay Cart) is known globally, but it had never been performed in Koodiyattam until this year. Shereen Saif reflects on G.
By Georgia "George" Evans, SB Tennent. Iranian Girlfriend explores the complex relationship between fact and fiction"a dynamic that played out in its journey from autobiographical essay to a…
By Ash Marinaccio, Camille Simone Thomas, Khristián Méndez Aguirre, Lyndsey Bourne, Phoebe Corde. Ash Marinaccio and the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group discuss investigative theatre, …
By HowlRound Theatre Commons. Beginning in January, HowlRound Theatre Commons will operate independently and with new leadership, as co-founder and director Jamie Gahlon steps into an adv…
By . Hear directly from the creators about what inspired them to write the plays, the creative process in bringing them to life, how they fit into the contemporary play landscape, and what w…
By Jose SolÃs. Since 2020, the BIPOC Critics Lab has trained dozens of emerging critics in craft of criticism.
By Sayda Trujillo, Madeline Sayet.
By Ash Marinaccio, Baha Sadr, Chris Ackley, Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Eve Kerrigan, Noga Paulino. Ash Marinaccio speaks with the Creative Pathways team at the Genesis Center in Providence, RI, ab…
By . Join us for an evening celebrating Malpede's Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths and 4 by Malpede plus an Intervention (introduction by Marvin Carlson), as well a
By . Behram Khan, set amid the brutal trenches of World War I, follows an Indian soldier in the Lahore Light Infantry who finds his faith in Islam and renounces violence.
By . A panel discussion on the role of arts and culture in the socio-political milieu of the Balkans.
By Ash Marinaccio, Greg Pierotti, Cristiana Giordano. Ash Marinaccio takes a deep dive into how anthropology and theatre collide as Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti share the origins of …
By Elizabeth McQueen, Sara Porkalob. What levels of change and accountability are we responsible for?
By Tomi Endter. Playwright Tomi Endter imagines a future fifty years from now when American theatre has finally centered Native voices.
By Madeline Easley. Madeline Easley details an experience working with the Wyandots of Kansas while writing a new play for Kansas City Repertory Theatre that touched on deep, nuanced, multi-…
By Chingwe Padraig Sullivan. Chingwe Padraig Sullivan shares findings and impacts of the recent Native Theatre Community Town Hall on representation, erasure, and accountability in the Ameri…
By . In today's Europe, can culture defend freedoms, nurture engagement, and contribute to a vibrant, open, and shared democracy?
By Ash Marinaccio, Peter Hussey. Ash talks with Peter Hussey of Crooked House Theatre about the ways interviews and personal stories shape their youth and documentary theatre, and how interg…
By Quita Sullivan, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Betsy Richards. Native theatremakers have been combatting harmful representations of Native people in theatre for many years.
