6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone writes about the effects Hurricane Harvey has had on the theatre community in Houston, Texas.
By Cynthia P. Schneider. Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, who attended the AsiaTOPA Performance Festival in Australia, reflects how as the United States devalues diversity and imposes restri…
By Michael Lueger. David Coates talks about his research into amateur theatricals in the nineteenth century.
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents Ocean " a new play written and performed by Ebony Stewart, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network…
By Maia Kinney-Petrucha. Maia Kinney-Petrucha examines the theoretical and applied science of creating empathy through theatre
By Viviana Vargas. Viviana Vargas compares West Side Story and La Carreta by looking at the history of Puerto Ricans migrating to New York to better understand an example of cultural appropr…
By Patrick Gaughan. Patrick Gaughan interviews Christian Appel and Renée Imperato about how they used applied theatre, writing, and utopian world-envisioning to create the all-trans, ensemb…
By Georgina Escobar. Georgina Escobar reflects on the past four years of Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) convenings, and developing an understanding of "Latinx aesthetics."
By Sophia Skiles. Theatre practitioner and educator Sophia Skiles interrogates unconsciously artificial and increasingly antiquated casting practices and urges understanding of casting pract…
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, introduces us to the treasures in the cent…
By David Diamond. David Diamond, curator of the La MaMa Umbria International Symposia, visits St. Petersburg and presents a look at Russian theatre artists today.
By Ashley Marinaccio. Ashley Marinaccio shares her experience working with seniors through a four-month residency with the Queens Theatre.
By Brendan McCall. In the third installment of this series, Brendan McCall discusses the work of Øystein Elle and his company Capto Musicae . Originally a classically trained opera singer…
By Alyssa Sileo. High school performing arts student Alyssa Sileo discusses how creating a theatre advocacy project based on The Laramie Project helped her unite communities in the face of a…
By David Dudley. David Dudley talks with Maria Striar and Michael Bulger of Clubbed Thumb about how they curated a program directly after the election.
By Aaron Sawyer, Terri Lynne Hudson. Aaron Sawyer and Terri Hudson reflect on what they learned from the Access Auditions, and offer tangible steps theatres can take to become more accessibl…
By Michael Lueger. The Staging Napoleonic Theatre project is working to study and stage early examples of melodrama, a theatrical genre that was widely popular in the nineteenth century.â₅
By Joan Schirle. Joan Schirle, Founding Artistic Director of Dell'Arte International, presents an overview of the history of Dell'Arte's Rural Residency Program and the program's relationshi…
By Brendan McCall. In the second installment of this series, Brendan McCall discusses the work of Cliff Moustache and Nordic Black Theatre.
By Talleri McRae. Talleri McRae summarizes a breakout session she co-led at the 2017 Theatre Communications Group Annual Conference.
By Nora J. Williams. Following the controversy around the Public's Shakespeare in the Park Julius Caesar production, Nora Williams provides a parallel story about a play that was censored an…
By Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza. Rehana Lew Mirza and Mike Lew document their first year as parents and Playwrights-in-Residence at Ma-Yi.
By HowlRound TV. Gale Theatre Company and The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents TWENTYEIGHT " a new play by Tyler English-Beckwith , livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced H…
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Stacy Wolf reveals the hidden feminist history of the Broadway musical in this discussion of her book Changed for Good .
By Lilian Mengesha. Lily Mengesha reports on the 2017 session of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research, "Research, Pedagogy, Activism," June 5"16, 2017 at Harvard University.
