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By Yoni Oppenheim. As a response to the realities of the current state of the theater for religiously observant theater artists, I co-founded 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company with likeminded a…
By Allison Vanouse. It is fascinating to see the experimental plays of Suzuki's generation, like Berkoff's "Metamorphosis", or the "Alice in Wonderland" of André Gregory's Manhattan Theatre…
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons presents a panel discussion "On Kisses and Chemistry: A Discourse on Stage Kiss" featuring "Stage Kiss" playwright Sarah Ruhl, actor Hamish Linklater, p…
By HowlRound TV. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and CultureHub in New York present a performance of "Bum Phillips All-American Opera" by Monk Parrots livestreaming on the global, commons-…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for David Ives' play, Venus in Fur, featuring director Joanie Schultz. This conversation will livestream on the globa…
By HowlRound TV. Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents "The Power of Hip Hop Culture: A Conversation with Clyde Valentin and Will Power" livestreaming on the global, common…
By Douglas Howe. We've all been there. The curtain call is over, the house lights come up, and a representative from the theater comes out on stage to inform the audience that, in a few minu…
By Deborah Yarchun. Culturally specific theater is particularly powerful when it subverts a stereotype, or offers a story much different from what audiences are used to seeing. This is what …
By Shirley Serotsky. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the meaningful questions it raises about the parameters of identity. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the revealing and re…
By HowlRound TV. Emerson College in Boston presents a livestreaming conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and acclaimed author Ayad Akthar on the global, commons-based peer pro…
By Aaron Henne. What make theater Jewish? This strikes me as just as complex a query as, "What makes a person Jewish?" or, for that matter, "What makes theater?" To any of these questions, s…
By Patricia Davis. Stephen Temperley's "Souvenir: a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins", is a tender send-up of delusional self-belief. The British playwright sets the action in…
By Paul M. Davis. I would like to see deeper and more fruitful engagements between artists and technologists within the civic sphere. In practice, civic technologists could learn much from a…
By Seth Rozin. Despite the fact that I have never thought of myself as an artist engaged in an exploration of my own background, I have somehow, almost inadvertently authored a trilogy of pl…
By Dara Weinberg. The last two posts of this series have documented the kinds of rehearsal scheduling and breaks that some of the Polish post-Grotowski theaters use. However, in addition to …
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "The Playwright and The Panel: Improving Theatrical Discourse" and will be moderated by Doug Howe @NITEcorp"who like all of our moderators, au…
By David Winitsky. Jewish theater? What does that mean? Is that redundant (insert your "theater would be dead without the Jews" joke here). Is it just old fashioned (are we talking Yiddish t…
By Guy Ben-Aharon. #JewPlay: What is the future of Jewish theater in the United States? In this series , co-curators David Winitsky, Artistic Director of New York's Jewish Plays Project and …
By Melinda Lopez. I have been making apple scones / For a friend who died / Doug, my neighbor, whose last name / I don't know
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around w…
By David Dower. Today I have the great fun of spending time on the phone with Lana Lesley and Kirk Lynn of Austin's Rude Mechanicals . We've been talking to each other for years, and you may…
By Lindsay Timmington. People kept telling me, "There are no small parts, only small actors" and "small roles can steal the show." And the more I heard it the more I convinced myself I was d…
By Meron Langsner. What Playwrights and Dramaturgs Need to Know About Staging Violence. These two articles are based on a workshop I've taught at venues that include ATHE (Association for Th…
By HowlRound TV. The Public Theater & British Council present The Artists Exchange featuring Tarell Alvin McCraney and Kwame Kwei-Armah livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer pr…
By Marcina Zaccaria. Theater is always a place for community. Often, a festival can provide a rigorous forum to investigate issues surrounding community. What is the need for stories? What i…
