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By Nancy Garcia Loza. The ALTA Unified General Auditions reminded us, and the theater community at large, of the breadth of Latina/o theater talent that is multiplying and thriving in our be…
By David Dower. Today I talk with three people involved in the Catalyst gathering at the National Black Theatre: Jonathan McCrory, Sade Lithcott, and Deadria Harrington. Evolving out of a se…
By Patricia Davis. The festival at Roundhouse unfolded as a kind of discourse on life in metro DC. Artistic director Dominic D'Andrea, who founded the OMPF in New York, noted as he introduce…
By Catherine Trieschmann. Nothing stirs my blood quite like the soft knock of toe shoes on a wood floor during a piqué. And so I admit, I may have exhibited a little too much enthusiasm whe…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company present The Second Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source …
By Emilie Whelan. The DISTILLERY is a creative residency for mid-career New Orleans-based performing artists to utilize while they are crafting a new performance. The DISTILLERY values local…
By Pardis Mahdavi. I had become exhausted from fighting the trafficking fights... The result has been policies that do more harm than good, and wide scale media misrepresentations of the pro…
By Morgan Greene. In About Face Youth Theatre's rehearsal space, there is a cluster of post-it notes on the wall titled "Where I Started." The ensemble's first impressions range from "not be…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Josh Sobel. The onus is on the artist to create an atmosphere and scenario for an audience to be open to an interactive experience, and to understand the techniques and considerations nec…
By Kate Kremer. There is a prevailing sense that the millennial avant-garde is not creating political, activist theater to the same extent as the avant-garde of the '60s and '70s. I don't th…
By Chiori Miyagawa. I have been terrified to even put down the word 幽玄. I had to ask Google to write these characters for me. According to Google Translate, yugen means "subtle an…
By Stephan Wolfert. Our modern military and Shakespeare's plays are both infused with honor"a powerful tool in recruiting and building camaraderie. But what exactly is honor?
By David Bollier. The three-year occupation of Teatro Valle in Rome is now legendary: a spontaneous response to the failures of conventional government in supporting a venerated public theat…
By Allison Vanouse. Connecting experimental drama, drag, the claimed ancestry of the French symbolists, Pride week in Boston's South End: none of this was coincidental or exploitative market…
By Maya Malan-Gonzalez. As part of the Café Onda soft launch this summer, we asked five authors from different places in the generational map, at different stages of their career, to open t…
By Idris Goodwin. Is a successful jukebox musical featuring rap music possible? I think it's inevitable, but not without a certain amount of consideration towards rap's unique and specific p…
By Armando Huipe. This tidal change in demographics is a drastically different environment for nurturing allyship than that of the LGBT community. Deeper intercultural relationships will dic…
By Lisa Portes. Artistic curiosity is an interactive discipline. It requires the deliberate practice of moving beyond the comfort of recognition towards the startling and unforeseen. I wonde…
By Olga Sanchez. Our journey across the border provided personal encounters, self-reflection, inspiration, challenges, and nourishment.
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco presents four panels at the 37th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer-produced HowlR…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Luis Alfaro. It has been fifteen years since I have gone to a TCG conference. I always liked them, but for this playwright of color, they were always lonely affairs. This used to be a con…
By Georgina Escobar. We are committed to providing a safe, crowd-sourced space for online dialogue and discussions around the topic of Latina/o theater. As the definitions of Latinidad and L…
By Shebana Coelho. In a volatile, war-torn place, things change quickly and recurring issues of conflict, occupation, and survival dominate"all the more reason to have festivals like this an…
