6,634 stories from HowlRound
By HowlRound. We are proud to introduce the new HowlRound Fellow, Emma Baar-Bittman! Emma will play an integral role in the HowlRound team, providing key support for all of our knowledge pla…
By Maegan Clearwood. As someone who lives and works with fifteen other young professionals, I know that brilliant conversations are being had on both sides of the generational line"but the f…
By Stephan Wolfert. Questioning the meaning life, and contemplating an offer to go back into active duty military service, I hopped on an Amtrak and weaved my way around the western states. …
By Mike Lew. #RightsWeek post: While I think the databases may be useful for schools and small companies, at the highest level I question whether access to plays is really the rate-limiter b…
By Alice Stanley. The humorous satire on masculinity is just one stop on the wild ride of gender exploration, narcissism, and longing in Chris Danowski's "end of play/7".
By Sean Patrick Flahaven. The #RightsWeek Series on HowlRound: What is the state of intellectual property? What are the rights of theatre artists and new work? In this series, Samuel French,…
By Amanda Friou. #RightsWeek post: No one gets into directing new plays because they want to copy someone else's work. For me, the fun is in solving a monumental problem in a completely uniq…
By Dani Snyder-Young. "Generation Sex" was directed by Alexandra Meda and developed by a team lead by Abigail Vega over a seventeen-month process of workshops in cities and on university cam…
By Isaac Butler. Creativity and collaboration both rely on trust and on the work of other people. But the law seeks to make the murky concrete, and the complicated simple. This is why we sho…
By HowlRound. As part of the "#RightsWeek: Protecting & Sharing Your Intellectual Property" series on HowlRound, this week's Twitter conversation topic is "Publishing Your Work in New Me…
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 HowlRound TV. Create the Vote, a coalition of artists and arts, cultural, and creative institutions based throughout Massachusetts, will host the Gubernatorial Forum on Arts, Culture, and…
By Amy Rose Marsh. Our community needs to come together for a broader discussion on the rights of playwrights and theatermakers. As a play licensor, we face piracy and rights challenges on a…
By Morgan Greene. The TYA branch of theater for, by and with young people offers a rare intersection of authorship, representation and inverted hierarchies. When the lack of youth voices in …
By David Dower. Today my guest is Ed Herendeen, Artistic Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The Festival is gearing up for its 24th seaso…
By Stephan Wolfert. I believe that here, Lady Percy describes the effects of combat on the veteran. I also believe that she shows, first-hand, the effects of war on the veteran's family. I f…
By HowlRound TV. One-Minute Play Festival and Round House Theatre presents an evening of micro plays by over 50 of the DC area's best playwrights livestreaming on the global, commons-based p…
By Morgan Gould. What if you knew that a major critic's favorite play was "Life is a Dream?" Maybe you would think about their review of an avant-garde movement piece and context it differen…
By HowlRound TV. Samuel French, Inc in New York City presents four livestreaming panel discussions for #RightsWeek: Protecting & Sharing Your Intellectual Property on the global, commons…
By Daniel Talbott. I believe that theater at its heart is a peasant's art form. It's an art form of the dirt, the ocean, fire, air, and animals. It grows out of the elements and the very act…
By Patricia Davis. Director Stevie Zimmerman didn't know what to expect on moving to Washington, DC, in 2010. She feared she might find a rather traditional theater scene, with little use fo…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Within the bigger picture of "openframe", I define myself as an immersive storyteller. My text is that of playwrights, space, and senses. I am adamant about crafting …
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. The Welders is a new DC-based playwrights' collective whose mission is to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play development and production. Ove…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Is your company playwright-driven, director-driven, actor-driven? A conversation about aesthetics, authorship, and companies". This hour-long…
By Carlos Murillo, Henning Bochert. I attempt as best as I can to embed the way I "hear" the language in the way it's shaped on the page. In my experience with the plays, it seems to have th…
