By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
By Jonathan Mandell. Can Edward Albee save the Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant? Can theater change the world? Those are the questions I asked after I attended an early perfor…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Does your Life in the Arts impact your Relationship(s)?" and will be moderated by Hilary Bettis @HilaryBettis"who like all of our moderat…
By Jess K. Smith. Clear direction, followed by "does that make sense?" Clear direction, diluted by "is that ok with you?" Clear direction, undercut by "can we try that?" Clear direction, und…
By Hannah Hessel Ratner. Jess Smith calls for a "revolution of language" and a revolution is necessary. However, the revolution is not about language, it's about creating a world built on re…
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
By Holly L. Derr. This dispatch, however, may be of particular interest to my colleagues in Los Angeles, where the explosion of cable TV and web-based content has created a thriving job mark…
By Aditi Kapil. A case for an open access theater culture. Backstory: Since the 2011"2012 season, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis has practiced Radical Hospitality, providing no-cost acce…
By Bostin Christopher. Perseverance Theatre has a long history of creating new work. A great deal of that new work embodies one of Perseverance's core values: regional voice. In 35 years, Pe…
By Noel Raymond. We completed our ArtPlace funded Arts on Chicago initiative in June of 2013. Arts on Chicago engaged forty artists in twenty placemaking projects to turn a ten-block stretch…
By Jim Lasko. The Great Chicago Fire Festival is a new signature event for the City of Chicago. It is a citywide spectacle, co-produced by Redmoon Theater and the City of Chicago. It will be…
By Jamie Bennett. "Creative Placemaking" describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities' social…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Rivendell Theatre Ensemble's premiere production of Joel Drake Johnson's "Rasheeda Speaking" (January 9-February 15, 2014), directed by Sandy Shinner, explores racial t…
By HowlRound TV. The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco presents a livestreaming staged reading of playwright-in-residence Andrew Saito's "Stegosaurus" on the global, commons-based peer p…
By Jonathan Mandell. The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University asked us to consider the history of theater to realize how much more theater can be"and sho…
By Tenara Calem. The idea that there are profound plays of political content, and then there are "relationship plays" is an attitude I have encountered many times in many places. It seems to…
By Alice Stanley. In a city that provides tough soil for any theater, how does an experimental company navigate creating something that is both innovative and accessible? The answer: remarka…
By Jeffrey Mosser. How do you work as a group? How do you work without a script? How do you ask someone to fund a group without a script? And how are you still together"financially, artistic…
By HowlRound TV. ArtPlace America hosts the 2014 Creative Placemaking Grantee Summit in Los Angeles livestreaming on the commons-based, peer produced HowlRound.TV network this Monday, March …
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
By Holly L. Derr. Today, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, local artists are again asserting control over the means of production and claiming American theater for themselves…
By Srila Nayak. In his autobiography, Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934, describes a stunned moment of self-discovery after reading a poem in the New Yorker. Baraka, then a 22-y…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Universal is Your Writing?" and will be moderated by Ross Howard @rhplaywright and Samuel French, Inc. @mrsamuelfrench"who like all of ou…
By Polly Carl, Lear deBessonet. Director Lear deBessonet dazzled audiences and critics with her direction of the Foundry Theatre's production of Brecht's "Good Person of Szechwan" first pres…