6,634 stories from HowlRound
By David Dudley. Since 1984, Steppenwolf Theatre Company has offered internships to students, graduates, and others to experience the inner workings of a professional theater from every angl…
By Talya Kingston. At this moment, the play transcended its story; the play was Scotland, and all of Scotland was the play... The climax of over seven hours of theater, this felt like the po…
By Zak Berkman. It is a thoughtful, celebratory, ambitious season, filled with giant heart and profound humor. Four new works. Three iconic classics. Two family productions. It is a season t…
By Deborah Zoe Laufer. What I imagine the greatest impact of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere was to "End Days" was the buzz, publicity, approval it got before it even st…
By Morgan Greene. When it was founded in 1969, Free Street Theater (FST) was one of Chicago's first racially integrated ensembles and since its inception has taken its art and activism to th…
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons in New York City presents the Bootycandy Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Mond…
By HowlRound TV. Oregon Shakespeare Festival's CultureFest presents a livestreaming conversation "Creating Inclusivity in the American Theatre: A Conversation with Carmen Morgan, Sarah Bella…
By Ira Gamerman. I feel fairly confident that if some sort of census was to be taken from the last decade of American theatermaking, counting up the total number of productions by playwright…
By Georgina Escobar. The problem with drinking too much coffee is that, eventually, the tolerance for the caffeine becomes counter-intuitive. And at that ungodly hour, on my way to JFK airpo…
By Todd London. There is so much to say about Kia, because Kia herself has so very much to say, and because what she says in her work is always so urgent, so vital. Because to fail to listen…
By Marisela Orta. There is so much that we, the new Latina/o playwrights, can learn from those who came before us. And if we as a cultural community are to keep working at diversifying the A…
By Marcina Zaccaria. The Lincoln Center Festival is a breathtaking annual event which ran this year from July 7-August 16. From extraordinary Kabuki Theater to Russian ballet, the festival f…
By Melinda Lopez. I wrote this summer, but all channeled through the Lorca lens. Translating when you are sad, I can say, is a very good thing to do. You can experience wild creativity withi…
By Kimberly del Busto Ramirez. While "Hortensia's" sibling protagonists remain displaced, frozen in time, their limbo is markedly different than is typical for exiles. The characters share a…
By Sarah Ruhl, Polly Carl. Playwright Sarah Ruhl's collection of short essays is called "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, …
By Taylor Gruenloh. I'll always be fighting for my voice to be heard. That's why we need more eyewitness accounts. People saying I was there. I saw everything. I know the truth. And that'll …
By Claudia Alick, Danny Bryck, Mica Cole, Rebecca Martinez, Katy Rubin. The Ferguson Moment was born from the impulse of theater makers across the nation to spark and organize artistic respo…
By Tom Gibbons. The Playwrights, Rewrites, Multiple Productions Series is a weekly series of interviews examining the process of developing a new play through a National New Play Network Rol…
By Meropi Peponides. The book as a whole is a deeply moving, authentic, and relatable piece of writing. It begins by relating "The Panza Monologues" authors' personal and social history, and…
By Don McClendon, Jacqueline Thompson. On Sunday, August 24th at the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, St. Louis-based theater artists Jacqueline Thompson and Don McClendon participated…
By Lauren Ferebee. Over my time in Spartanburg, I learned firsthand that South Carolina is not a homogenous place. There are all kinds of people in South Carolina, people with voices and pow…
By Will Arbery. Miranda Wright doesn't want to be pegged " not yet. The theatrical environment that she's creating is both local and global"theater for a world that is simultaneously more co…
By HowlRound TV. The National Playwright Residency Program cohort meeting"a program funded and administered by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"will livestream on the global, commons-based pe…
By Jonathan Mandell. More than a decade ago, A.R. Gurney, who had written some forty plays over forty years, wondered whether he would be forced to retire. Now, at age eighty-three, Gurney h…
By Polly Carl, Michael Garcés. Polly Carl recently talked with Michael Garcés, artistic director of Cornerstone Theater, about their touring production "California: The Tempest", which rev…
