By Stephan Wolfert. In the modern military, weeks and weeks are spent tearing the "civilian" out of civilians-turned-recruits. Ripping out the thoughtful, compassionate, human response and r…
By Jonathan Mandell. Eight months after his release from prison, Joseph Assadourian is portraying some eighteen different characters in "The Bullpen", a play he wrote that has just opened. T…
By Brendan McCall. These personal experiences of Belarus Free Theatre"what they have endured, and what they are willing to sacrifice for what they believe in"humbles me. I cannot imagine bei…
By Shebana Coelho. In 2012, eleven young theater students succeeded in starting Ashtar's first youth festival. Ashtar Theatre, which was founded in 1991 by Iman Aoun and Edward Muallem, desc…
By Polly Carl, Julie Crosby. With all of the conversations about gender parity, I have been thinking a lot about women and leadership and the particular problems that pertain to women at the…
By Mark Jackson. Three key values"dialogue, diversity, and quality"figure into every aspect of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival with a consistency that has made it the powerful engin…
By HowlRound TV. A significant debate over how to approach new works has energized theatre-makers in the past year. Should critics publish their reviews of new plays with a different standar…
By HowlRound TV. Discover what New Dramatists has to offer playwrights; also, live demonstration of how to apply online. Learn about the selection process, what and how to submit application…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "Brigadoon". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced …
By Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez. It is commendable that TCG is doing this daring work around diversity and inclusion and we all should acknowledge that they are one of the leaders in the field…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Engaging Volunteers for Your Arts Organization" and will be moderated by Christian Carter @cdcarter"who like all of our moderators, authors, …
By Caridad Svich. Writing for the theater is an act of resistance. It is also an act of folly, daring, and one that asks of its makers and emancipated spectators alike to consider potentiali…
By HowlRound TV. The Living Room Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri presents a livestreaming performance of Master of the Universe written and directed by Kyle Hatley on Sunday, June 29 at 6pm…
By Catherine Trieschmann. My feelings are more complicated than merely wishing my children would share my love of theater, however, because what I really want is for my children to love the …
By Stephan Wolfert. Although written in the early 1600s in England and set in ancient Rome, Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" elucidates the difficulty of reintegration back into society for our ve…
By David Dower. Today my guest is Tracey Scott Wilson. Her play Buzzer recently closed at The Goodman and she's also a writer on my favorite television show "The Americans". Tracey and I hav…
By Bertie Ferdman. It was by now quite obvious that this was the beginning of the show we were all there to experience: Cynthia von Buhler's immersive staging of her grandfather's unsolved 1…
By Zak Berkman. This is the fifth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of People's Light & Theatre Company's (Malvern, Pennsylvania) New Play Frontiers. I will share…
By Gabriel Jason Dean, Lindsay Amer. The aim of this article is not to point fingers. Though we were both angry at being censored, the director of the Purple Crayon Players production, Linds…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Theatermakers, playwrights: What's the best way to get feedback?" and will be moderated by Angela Eden @angelaeden116"who like all of our mod…
By Dani Snyder-Young. The Chicago Home Theater Festival, now in its second year, creates participatory performance events in private homes with the goal of crossing borders, creating opportu…
By HowlRound TV. City Theatre in Miami, Florida hosts CityWrights 2014"CityWrights: A Professional Weekend for Playwrights"which will be livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produ…
By HowlRound TV. Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas will hold its 2014 annual international conference in Boston, USA: "Building the Future" and will livestream five events o…
By Andrew Roblyer. Sometimes, the best way to study a theory or philosophy is to implement it and learn from the results. This twelve-part series is the year-long account of one young artist…
By Joy Meads, Carla Ching, Annah Feinberg, Kelly Miller, Polly Carl. On June 11, 2014, The Kilroys, an independent Los Angeles-based advocacy group of female playwrights and producers, relea…