By HowlRound. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with support from ArtPlace America, is hosting a convening that examines how performance-based organizations, and the artists they en…
By Will Davis. This method of working through the unknown and working with a bit of grace with the imperfect is the only way I have managed to arrive at a sense of self in my life. I've had …
By Polly Carl. I'm at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the women's restroom washing my hands. A woman walks in, "I must be in the wrong place," she says and walks out. Then she walks b…
By Chris Garza. The night I saw the show, members of Gazillion Voices, a magazine for adoptees, were also in attendance. At the talk back, a Korean adoptee in the audience revealed, "I didn'…
By Annie Danger. …you begin with hope. Not dependence on false hopes. Not faith in some distant heaven. But real, hard, daily belief that we can make the drastic, bone-deep changes necessa…
By Dominic Bradley. I gravitated towards performance art. Many questions emerged from my practice. What am I on fire to do? What gender(s) can I explore? Where is the niche for performers li…
By David Dudley, John Culbert. The Theatre School at DePaul University has been around for a long time. It's no wonder, given that they offer degree programs in nearly every discipline one c…
By Bianca Leigh. I was often cast in small roles or the chorus. I learned to watch and listen. Creating a point of view about everything that happens onstage"even when I didn't have a single…
By Martha Steketee. There are many theater festivals and conferences that select participants and winners carefully behind closed doors. Some of these programs have public performances, and …
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space Productions in London presents a staged reading of "Flight" by Boston-based writer Patrick Gabridge on Monday, October 27 at 7:30pm GMT (London) / 3:30pm EDT (…
By Azure D. Osborne-Lee. Imagine, if you will, a slumber party. A group of tweens huddles around a television in the carpeted family room of a two-story house. Most of them stare, mouths sli…
By HowlRound TV. How do different creative disciplines construct a narrative around ecology and environmentalism? CultureHub in New York City presents the discussion "The Mirror up to Nature…
By MJ Kaufman. I hear in theater constantly: a talented artist can write or act anything. Suggesting that an artist can only express their lived experience is limiting. While a cisgender wri…
By Kate Kremer. The rise of artistic multi-functionalism, and the open, assimilative, and collaborative values it implies, has coincided with the emergence of devising as a major theatrical …
By Café Onda. The 2014 Latina/o Theatre Commons Second National Convening at Los Angeles Theatre Center's Encuentro 2014 runs November 6-9, 2014 and is open to all theatermakers, artists, s…
By Trevor Boffone. My experiences doing archival research in Austin led me to question the current state of Latina/o theater and the growing need not only to return to the archives to learn …
By Julie Rada. When we teach, how do we discuss something truly important? Specifically, how could I talk about the murder of an unarmed black man the same age as my students? What is taught…
By Jonathan Mandell. 1.) Never wait for permission to practice your art. You cannot wait to get a job to be an artist. 2.) Study your art. Never stop studying. 3.) Find a spiritual practice …
By Andy Boyd. Tragedy arises not because of one character's flaw, but because of the irresolvable clash of mutually exclusive value systems: family loyalty clashes with patriotism, sexual gr…
By Evan Caccioppoli. It dawned on me that the message of {my lingerie play} is a message for the masses. I decided to do the public underground performance installations because they would b…
By Haley Honeman. How do we harness the power of arts to inscribe places with cultural value? How does that valuing affect the wellbeing of our communities? That day, many of us brought with…
By HowlRound TV. The Los Angeles Theatre Center in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) proudly present Encuentro 2014: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival livestreaming on t…
By Lavina Jadhwani. I offered to cut "Henry IV, Part One" down to ninety minutes, schedule two rehearsals and one performance, and find a part for anyone who wanted to participate. Eighteen …
By Robert O'Hara, Ronee Penoi. …my concerns were how much time would I have to be in residency in DC and will they allow me to continue my directing career. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it. So…
By Brian Herrera. Café Onda can't make all our virtual dreams come true, but this space can celebrate the dynamic creativity and connectivity of Latina/o theatermakers as together we build …