By Paula Donnelly. "California: The Tempest" is performing in ten communities around the state. Ten is a lot of towns: ten unique environments, climates, venues, population demographics, and…
By HowlRound TV. CultureHub presents "Staging the Network: A Discussion about Telecommunications for Performance" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV networ…
By Dara Weinberg. Many Polish theaters seek to explore Poland's diverse heritage or to connect with other cultures in Europe, but lack immediate access to a large multiethnic pool of actors.…
By Douglas Howe. It was clear from the first gathering on September 30, 2013 that this was not going to be your typical playwriting class. It was not about process, but ontology. It was spec…
By Dani Snyder-Young. "All Our Tragic," adapted and directed by Sean Graney and produced by The Hypocrites at the Den Theatre in Chicago, features all thirty-two surviving Greek tragedies by…
By Jane Jung. From the very beginning, there has been a struggle on the part of actors of Asian descent to assert their humanity in the face of a history and culture deeply entrenched in exo…
By Gayle Isa. I was inspired to believe in the power of the arts to mobilize people and sway emotions and opinions and build community in ways that petitions and protests couldn't. I decided…
By HowlRound TV. Linda Mary Montano appears as Mother Teresa for three nights of endurance performance at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas"livestreaming on the global, open source HowlRound TV ne…
By Brighde Mullins. Andrei Belgrader directs this riveting, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking production of one of Beckett's masterpieces. Playing a Beckett heroine is a departure for …
By Mashuq Deen. Home is not a shared skin tone, language, religion, location, orientation, or political sensibility, though those all play a small role. It's a sense of history, of being kno…
By Mike Lew. I would posit that when it comes to writers of color, we're being subjected to an anthropological gaze that places our plays under the context of "ethnic work," some kind of cat…
By Victor Maog. In the recent review of Broadway and nonprofit theater by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Asian Americans were the only major minority group to have their num…
By HowlRound TV. The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists and the Asian Arts Initiative presents the 2014 National Asian American Theater Conference & Festival in Philadep…
By Steven Dietz. All theater is local. That is what is inspiring and instructive about the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, as opposed to the notion of a "national tour." In…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Smell can instigate imagination because it sparks multiple visceral possibilities. Our brain takes in a smell, and connects it to a collage of memories logged from th…
By John Perrin Flynn. If we truly want Los Angeles theater to grow and provide more jobs that pay, let's examine what that will take. Help from the unions is certainly part of it, but the id…
By Jonathan Mandell. Most people these days understand intimacy to be: 1.) A euphemism for sex, 2.) A synonym for love, 3.) Physical closeness, 4.) Emotional closeness"or some combination of…
By Dámaso Rodriguez. In 1999, I arrived in LA in a Ryder truck with the contents of several friends' apartments and the unit set for a play we had just successfully produced together in C…
By Alan Berks. In Minnesota, your bank teller, plumber, and doctor all have opinions about whether they like the Guthrie Theater's season. All of them may have seen your last Fringe show or …
By Ember Flynne, Michael Mucciolo. Circus artists Ember Flynne and Michael "Mooch" Mucciolo discuss their work as professional fire performers in Boston, and shed some light on what it takes…
By Diana Wyenn. Truthfully, as a Los Angeles-based theater artist working almost entirely under the 99-seat agreement, at a certain point I just gave up on earning my Equity card, and the St…
By Martha Steketee. He fought two guys; beat the crap out of them. And I looked around, and everybody had just stopped training.. And I thought: oh, my god, this is the show. There's that ma…
By Elizabeth Dwyer Sandlin, Amelia Ampuero. Albuquerque, New Mexico: We have a varied company, and we're always looking to put on kick ass plays. It's pretty cool that we have a company wher…
By Emma Wiseman. Today Westport has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the United States. A hedge fund responsible for $120 billion of the world's money is nestled in the woods there. In thi…
By HowlRound TV. The National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and the Spider Web Show present "From Where I Stand, A Forum of Perspectives on Canadian Theatre" livestreaming on the glob…