A New Approach to Othello: Shakespeare's Dark Lady by HowlRound

By John Hudson. By showing that Othello has similar content to her poetry, and Emilia bears multiple resemblances to Amelia Bassano herself, "Writing Othello" makes the case that the 'dark l…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 4:05pm on February 10, 2014☆⚑

Live on HowlRound TV: Musical Theater & Hidden Communities"Tues, Feb 11 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents "Behind the Music-al: Goes Behind Closed Doors" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at htt…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 3:28pm on February 10, 2014☆⚑

Twitter Chat: Raising a Family While in the Arts"Thurs, Feb 13 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Raising a Family While in the Arts" and will be moderated by Garlia Cornelia @garliacornelia on Thursday, February 13 on hashtag #newplay at …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 2:45pm on February 10, 2014☆⚑

On the Builders: Marianne Weems in Conversation by HowlRound

By Srila Nayak. The Builders Association: When we first started a lot of people would say, "Is this theater?""Producers, presenters and audience members alike. And our response at the time w…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 4:25pm on February 9, 2014☆⚑

A Polish Theater Cookbook: The Loose 20 Minute Break by HowlRound

By Dara Weinberg. Our US union regulations and laws require us to take breaks of a certain time, at a certain time. But nothing requires us to take *exactly* and *only* 5 minutes every hour …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 2:30pm on February 9, 2014☆⚑

Does It Matter that It Was Written by a White Guy? by HowlRound

By Andrew White. Theater artists (and institutions) in the U.S. today constantly grapple with this messy duality: caught between a belief in this idealized vision of infinite potential to ex…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 4:08pm on February 7, 2014☆⚑

National Center for Arts Research Livestream Their Inaugural Report"#NCARreport @artsresearch"Mon, Feb 10 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Join the National Center for Arts Research, Theatre Development Fund, and the Signature Theatre as they partner to present the Inaugural NCAR Report, Exploring the State of …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 3:11pm on February 7, 2014☆⚑

2nd Annual Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)"Sun, Feb 9 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival and E.M.P. Collective Present the 2nd Annual Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRou…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 1:44pm on February 7, 2014☆⚑

The Group Theatre, Revisited by HowlRound

By Jonathan Mandell. "The House of Connelly" by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Green remains a shocking play"indeed, it is in some ways more shocking now than it was in 1931, when Group co…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:49pm on February 6, 2014☆⚑

What is Cultural Appropriation: Revisiting Peter Brook's Mahabharata by HowlRound

By Tlaloc Rivas. By allowing only a European/Western perspective to lead the artistic presentation of stories about class, race, and gender, are we continuing to allow those narratives to be…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:35am on February 6, 2014☆⚑

Fears of the Artist Sustain a Dysfunctional System by HowlRound

By Jamil Khoury. The twenty-first century artist needs to be an artist entrepreneur. Once the artist more firmly controls artistic production, the threat of economic retaliation and banishme…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:49pm on February 5, 2014☆⚑

What makes an artist qualified to tell a story? by HowlRound

By Anjali Bhimani. To say that someone, anyone, is categorically unable to understand something about the human condition because it isn't part of their own experience or heredity is ludicro…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 4:54pm on February 5, 2014☆⚑

Audiences, Artists, Theaters: Livestreaming Triple Play Discussion Series"Thurs, Jan 6 by HowlRound

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…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 2:55pm on February 5, 2014☆⚑

Latino Theater in Los Angeles es Muy Bueno by HowlRound

By Holly L. Derr. Whether Latinos begin a theater movement of their own and/or begin to get produced on regional and Broadway stages in representative numbers, given that 49.9 percent of Ame…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:40pm on February 4, 2014☆⚑

Radical Compassion and the Ethics of Cultural Representation by HowlRound

By Michael Malek Najjar. When the history of intercultural theatre is written, we will always remember the directors that created these works (i.e., Brecht, Barba, Taymor, Ninagawa, Ong), bu…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:04pm on February 4, 2014☆⚑

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work"Wed, Feb 5 by HowlRound

By HowlRound TV. Get advice and get to work! Livestreaming on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv from The Public Theater, NYC this Wednesday, February 5 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) /…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 3:53pm on February 4, 2014☆⚑

Writing Towards the Specific by HowlRound

By Jacqueline E. Lawton. As an African American woman playwright from a poor, working class, racist, country town in East Texas, I learned early in life that I am part of a community of peop…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 4:01pm on February 3, 2014☆⚑

Weekly Howl Topic on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Parenting and the Arts"Thurs, Feb 6 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Parenting and the Arts" taking place on Thursday, February 6 on Twitter hashtag #newplay at 11am PST " 12pm PST (Vancouver) / 1pm CST " 2pm C…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 3:26pm on February 3, 2014☆⚑

Weekly Howl Topic on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Race and Representation in the American Theater"Thurs, Feb 6 by HowlRound

By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Race and Representation in American Theater" taking place on Thursday, February 6 on Twitter hashtag #newplay at 11am PST " 12pm PST (Vancouv…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00am on February 3, 2014☆⚑

Stomping on Eggshells: An Honest Discussion of Race, Identity, and Intent in the American Theater by HowlRound

By Rebecca Stevens. This week at HowlRound we ask the questions: Can a white person write, adapt, direct, or perform stories from a different culture or race? Is it a huge step forward when …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:13am on February 2, 2014☆⚑

Peter Pan in 2014: Notes For NBC's Creative Team by HowlRound

By Talleri McRae. While NBC's continued commitment to a live broadcast is to be commended, I also believe some thoughtful reflection is necessary to improve the quality of its future program…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 1:05pm on January 31, 2014☆⚑

Performance Art at the UN Conference on Gender Violence by HowlRound

By Marcina Zaccaria. In "Dust to Dust," Elizabeth Hess explored the violence and fears surrounding the systematic rape of women in Bosnia. The war in Bosnia took place between 1992-1995. Bos…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 3:55pm on January 30, 2014☆⚑

Climate Science's Challenge to Artists by HowlRound

By Karen Malpede. Relatively recently, the climate modeling of climate scientists has allowed us to see into the future. While we don't know everything we know enough to ask if we wish to da…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:25pm on January 29, 2014☆⚑

Playwriting and Parenting: New Year, New Me by HowlRound

By Catherine Trieschmann. It seems to me that the problem is not my over-emotional creative personality, but my choice to pursue a living in the theater. Clearly, no one in their right mind …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:04pm on January 29, 2014☆⚑

Some Fringe Conventions for Performing Shakespeare, and Romeo and Juliet by HowlRound

By Allison Vanouse. Actor's Shakespeare Project believes that Shakespeare's words "are urgently relevant to our times." Significantly, ASP carries the torch for a genre of Shakespeare perfor…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 5:20pm on January 28, 2014☆⚑