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The Summer Play Festival of 2005 was a watershed career moment for me. I landed my first agent, my first professional production, and got to share my production week with such remarkably tal…
Thus, our entire discussion about community-specific theater boiled down to one point: sometimes it is possible for an outsider to accurately depict a community to which he/she does not belo…
Over the past few months we've been in discussions about the possibility of moving the programs to Emerson College, which is a place that specializes in arts and media. And of course, colleg…
Not merely individuals, but communities and nations, put their cultural good taste in evidence by building opera houses, galleries, and museums. These show that a community is not wholly abs…
Are you familiar with any of these plays? Stand-Up Tragedy. Daytrips. Romance Language. A Place With The Pigs. From The Mississippi Delta. Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad. Pill Hill. Messiah. In…
Preventative care for theater practitioners starts with believing that creativity and imagination have to be rooted in all of the activities that surround that rehearsal room"a series of con…
But maybe art should hurt. It should certainly provoke. (If a work of art provokes nothing, can we even call it art?) The question is: what will galvanize audiences to believe that provocati…
I'm a musical theater composer. It's with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely aware of the stigma of the term "musical the…
Steven: Yeah. You need to know what you're writing about. I think you need to connect with the community on a personal level. If it ends up in the show, cool. But do it for yourself. I think…
By Keith Josef Adkins, Nathan James, Nathan Yungerberg. Keith Josef Adkins shares excerpts from "Hands Up: 6 Playwrights, 6 Testaments," ten-minute monologues commissioned in response to the…
By Will Power, Jonathan Norton. Commons Producer Jonathon Norton talks to playwright Will Power, the playwright in residence at Dallas Theater Center, about being on staff at a regional thea…
By Catherine Trieschmann. In her latest installment, Catherine Trieschmann explores turning forty, leaky roofs, advice for parents on how to save money on childcare, and what to do when you'…
By HowlRound TV. LaMaMa and CultureHub in New York City present Motus Theatre Company's (Italy) "Nella Tempesta""an adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Aimé Césaire's "Une TempÃ…
By Patricia Davis. Though set in 1988, Idris Goodwin's play's insistence on the power of words, creativity, and voice as a means of self-assertion, growth, and transformation is of timeless …
By David Dudley, Caridad Svich. David Dudley talks to Caridad Svich of NoPassport about the origins of the alliance, and what kind of education her model can offer potential collaborators.
By Lisa DiFranza. What would a twenty-first century Living Newspaper about homelessness look like? Chicago journalists, artists, and students and faculty at Columbia College, staff and resid…
By Jeff Augustin. Jeff Augustin talks about the luxury of time, how he gets to learn and grow through his residency, how an artistic home shapes both artist and art, and his desire for an ar…
By Marcina Zaccaria. Ariza spoke in depth about her work in an interview with Diana Taylor, Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at the Martin E. Segal Theatre C…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents the seminar "Contracts 101: Tax Information for Playwrights" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV n…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Based on interviews with local teachers and students about the current educational climate, "Forgotten Futures" creates space for discussion of the dysfunction plaguing…
By Heidi Schreck. Playwright Heidi Shreck comments on the importance of people who have faith in your work and want to watch your plays evolve, and how wonderful it is to have the resources …
By Elaine Avila. I highly recommend DISQUIET to all writers, but especially to those of Latina/o and Luso descent. I can't wait to see what stories come from connecting Café Onda readers an…
By Emily Schwend. Emily Schwend talks about how her residency can support her art, strange experience of knowing in what space her play will eventually come to life, and her view on artistic…
By A. Zell Williams. A. Zell Williams talks about how a resident playwright and a theater can affect dialogue together, and how the trouble when residencies happen without enough commitment.
By HowlRound TV. CultureHub SeoulArts/La MaMa present a special work in progress showing of "The Return" by puppeteer Tom Lee in collaboration with the Seoul Institute of the Arts and Sarah …
