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By Dara Weinberg. This period of shared, relaxed time puts the performers in harmony with the theater, the rehearsal, and their fellow actors. It's like musicians tuning in the same room tog…
By David Dower. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via R…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America with Harvardwood present a livestreaming conversation with André Bishop, Producing Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater in New York C…
By Jon Wojciechowski. Cape May Stage is a small Equity theater in Southern New Jersey"about as far south as you can go before your hat floats. Geographically, we are isolated from our collea…
By Kate Homan. When we do a talk back after our public performances of a Shakespearean play, there's a particular question that frequently comes up. This one question does a fair job of iden…
By Allison Vanouse. "Conspiracy" is an adaptation from the only surviving transcript of the Wannsee Conference, a secret meeting at a villa north of Berlin where Nazi officials and high-rank…
By Tom Horan. Phoenix Theatre seemed like one those theater companies that could teach a thing or two to the business world about efficiency and sustainability. For over thirty years the Pho…
By Ben Asaykwee. We often discuss originality at Q Artistry, an Indianapolis based new works theater organization. We debate it and comb over it with dirty, bloody brushes or pluck at it wit…
By Bertie Ferdman. As the performing arts continue to expand and broaden, it is exciting to hear a curator (Marc Bamuthi Joseph) speak about creating art as opposed to witnessing it, openly …
By Lou Harry. Indy Actors' Playground also gives working actors a chance to see their peers at work, a chance for theater professionals in the audience to see other sides of these actors, an…
By HowlRound TV. Emerson College presents a lecture entitled MarÃa Irene Fornés: America's Greatest Living Playwright by Dr. Scott Cummings, Chair of the Theatre Department at Boston Col…
By Diane Timmerman. Our Shakespeare productions have become beloved Indianapolis events that draw over one thousand people per evening. We offer pre-show bands, food trucks, and beer and win…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. The truth is, I'm a sucker for the well-timed arrival of useful data: just the right information, just when you need it. It's the surest way, if you ask me, to make any…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Can Theater Get Political Influence?" and will be moderated by Alan Katz @dcdramaturg"who like all of our moderators, authors, and conten…
By Courtney Sale. Defining "new" and locating our reach takes a tremendous amount of dialogue and messaging and collaboration. As art makers here our work can be only be as brave and as tire…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre, Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for Tracey Scott Wilson's play "Buzzer". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
By Taylor Gruenloh. Starting a theater company is much like getting ready to write a book report in the sixth grade. Before you get to the nitty-gritty, you first have to figure out the "Fiv…
By HowlRound TV. 90 plays, 50 playwrights, 1 minute... and counting. Walking Shadow Theatre Company and Mixed Blood Theatre present the 2nd annual One Minute Play Festival in Minneapolis liv…
By Matt McGeachy. But what happens when the question of beauty and the question of identity are fused into one? What if the question when we saw our own faces was not, "Who am I?" but rather…
By Alan Dupont. I'm not sure a business degree is practical anymore. It depends on the program, I suppose, but if colleges are preparing students for the workforce"and I've argued that that …
By Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly. Before I was a mother, I was a mini-revolutionary. I say was, because I currently feel as if my politics are lost in a world of Elmo and potty-training... That i…
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 Chris Garza. Underneath all of the comedy "Muy Very Authentico" is about imitation and escape and this starts the moment you walk into the theater. The box office at Open Eye Theater is u…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Bianca Sams. Amiri Baraka's work taught me that as an artist you could be brash, political, irreverent, and even obnoxious if you liked. Baraka's words could take the audience by the thro…