6,634 stories from HowlRound
By JosÂŽé Torres-Tama. I hold steadfast to a belief that artists can be instrumental in creating work that serves as the conscience of our times while forging a divine marriage between po…
By Jamie Gahlon, Georgina Escobar, Abigail Vega. We want it to be for everybody. I think that we have to make it so that our readership sees us as a chapter in the narrative, not a separate …
By Patricia Davis, Richard Washer. Richard Washer is a Washington fixture, having worked in the Washington, D.C. area for more than thirty years as a playwright, director, dramaturge, and ed…
By Emily Morse, Srila Nayak. Six years ago, New Dramatists in New York was able to realize an extensive commission-development-production initiative. Thanks to a generous grant from The Andr…
By Dani Snyder-Young. At this historic moment in which it is still quite dangerous to be a black man in the United States, "Native Son" offers an important provocation. For all the world has…
By Brendan McCall. In addition to new works by Belarusian playwrights, writers as far-flung as Europe and the United States, Australia and New Zealand, ended up making excellent contribution…
By Jorge Huerta. This is a historic and life-changing event that few people realize has its precedents in the annals of Chicana/o theater history. A theater festival is the natural manifesta…
By HowlRound TV. ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage in Boston presents the talk "Essence of Polish Contemporary Theater Life Until Yesterday" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer pro…
By Lou Harry. The reality is that nobody is going to be monitoring the ethnical line but me. And in a constantly changing media landscape"a place where an anonymous blogger may well be the b…
By Teresa A. Fisher. Yet after reading about staged readings and their role in play development, I hit a roadblock. I couldn't come up with a definition that addressed every possible scenari…
By Café Onda. The Carnaval endeavors to increase the visibility of work by Latina/o playwrights and to encourage the production of that work in the nation's theaters. The event will include…
By David Taft, John Kendall Wilson. With no assistance from outside their group, several student performance groups devise their own work as a solution to the posted problem. The problem is …
By HowlRound TV. The Network of Ensemble Theaters presents Intersection: Ensembles + Universities livestreaming from LaMama and New School University in New York City on the global, commons-…
By Cynthia Ling Lee. Over the past seven years, the Post Natyam Collective's creative practice has transitioned from in-person collaboration to web-based collaboration. Often our process is …
By Emma Wiseman. Founded in 1973 by a group of poets, playwrights, and musicians of color whose work was underrepresented in the mainstream arts community of New York City, the Nuyorican Poe…
By Julián J. Mesri. The painful step, though, is realizing that to exorcise those demons is to perhaps challenge the very notion of an identity. Perhaps the solution is to do away with tr…
By Joan Lancourt. Having been an executive coach in a Kennedy School Executive Development program, I had found the Chait, Ryan and Taylor "Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of No…
By Matthew Glassman. What we really needed"and received"was a place to develop an unfinished work in a professional touring locale with Chicago audiences, and to prototype a student chorus t…
By HowlRound TV. Theater Emory, the professional producing organization of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, presents a panel discussion on Harold Pinter in conversation with contemporar…
By Bertie Ferdman. I made the show to bring people who have served together with people who know nothing about war, beyond what they read in the papers. What we wanted to do with "Basetrack …
By HowlRound. This week's conversation will be in Spanish and topic is: "Diferencias culturales y de idioma en teatro" This conversation will be moderated by Inés Gubba-Tejeira @Ineika"who …
By Marisela Orta, Tony Garcia. There is a very gentle story at heart about a boy who wants his mother. We all feel that separation; we all want to return to that place in our lives where our…
By Polly Carl, Carson Kreitzer, Matt Gould. Recently, I spent two days in a convening learning, among other things, about the partnership between Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould. I was enchan…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Touch has an important place in open-frame work. It is our most powerful resource"but we must craft it with the care we craft each other element. In fact, with more c…
By Basil Kreimendahl. I don't want to write an article about how we don't see enough of a certain kind of people on stage. We are all working within an unfortunate system that, for the most …
