By Polly Carl, Gypsy Snider, Shana Carroll. When I was eighteen and deciding to do circus, I was involved in a form where you take a risk on a daily basis. I became a trapeze artist. I think…
By Steve Yockey. The nerves about future productions depending entirely on the success of this first one are wiped away. It just pushes all of the anxious noise into the background. A lot of…
By Tom Buderwitz. I could certainly choose not to work at a lot of small theaters. I could also try and negotiate higher rates. I have done both. But I like to work with good theater artists…
By Jorge Luis Morejón. Despite profound decentering from its source, Cuban theater has had a consistent representation in Miami. Mirrored by a repertoire of embodied theatrical practices,…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "Smokefall". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced …
By Stephen Quigley. After the play, I raised this question to my theater companions, and all tried to explain to me the obvious humor behind the song. I nodded my head…yes…I get it. Of c…
By Brighde Mullins. There were two modes of preparation for a soiled soul: one was to go to a sporting event and, by rooting for an athlete, profound and cleansing emotions would be activate…
By Douglas Clayton. The kind of open, honest, rough-and-tumble way that we often approach our art-making seems to be inhibited, or even actively stifled, when it comes to addressing larger i…
By HowlRound TV. Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania presents a new musicals talk-back livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround…
By Dani Snyder-Young. The expectations of audience behavior are different in park spaces than in formal theater spaces. Children can dip in and out of the performance, running off to play ne…
By Patricia Davis. All you have to do, for ten days, is look at beauty and create. If you need to talk your ideas through, you have a teacher available, ready to listen and help. If you want…
By Todd London. Your experiment"these three-year residencies"is part of a fix"a fix made necessary by the unintended consequences of good intentions. Our young theaters, brave and optimistic…
By Yussef El Guindi. It was instructive to watch the same comedy handled by different casts and directors, each offering different rhythms and approaches to the same comic beats. It is start…
By Brendan McCall. While I was reaping the benefits of working internationally, my Belarusian friends were living as a theater company in exile. What could I do to help make a difference? Wh…
By HowlRound TV. Lark Play Development Center in New York City presents "Meet the Writers", the public kick-off event of the 21st Annual Playwrights' Week. Meet the seven writers"Mando Alvar…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents the panel discussion "Writing for Disability" on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tue…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "The World of Extreme Happiness". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons…
By Derek Goldman. The project speaks deeply to us both because of its extraordinary artistic merit and because we feel that the voices of these women, and by extension the voices of over two…
By Jonathan Mandell. "I want to reinvigorate the idea of this neighborhood being a destination for theater," David Van Asselt, artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, told me l…
By Anne Towns. Accurately describing what Collision means to the young men and women who participate each summer is challenging. Part coming-of-age experience, part artistic awakening, part …
By Solimar Otero. Whether it is race, place, ethnicity, or personhood, Cuban and Cuban diasporic performances push the boundaries of linear logics of the body towards a tapestry of experient…
By HowlRound TV. The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and the Syria: The Trojan Women Project in Amman, Jordan present a livestreamin…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents "Spirit" by Bonnie Cullum and the VORTEX ensemble livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlr…
By HowlRound. This week's Twitter conversation topic is "Ferguson and What Can Artists Effectively Do In the Context of Social Justice Issues, Crises, & Conflicts?" and will be co-modera…
By HowlRound TV. The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, the Indian Law Resource Center, and the National Congress of American Indians present "Sliver of a Full Moon", a powerful ne…