By Fitz Patton. "I think that there is still a prejudice that sound design is not artistic, that it is purely technical. I think that's the crux of the matter, for some people.""Cecilia Frie…
By Stephan Wolfert. We as a nation, much like Shakespeare's plays, are brilliant at using camaraderie to: define masculinity, create and dehumanize an enemy, and to motivate our men and wome…
By Maggie Sulc. We are building a shared vocabulary that may not ever fit into a dictionary or any static form, but will give us a foundation to work toward into the future. The playwrights …
By David Dower. Today I cheated a little bit and just called Marc Kudisch, a great friend who is in the middle of the run of a show we made together. I won't link it here so that it's not a …
By Martha Steketee. The art of theater director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is enormous and embracing and currently evident in "The Mysteries", a retelling of The York Mystery Cycle at the Flea The…
By Megan Reilly. The term "gamification" refers to using game mechanics in non-game situations. Many believe that understanding what draws people to games can be used to draw in audiences th…
By Jean Ann Douglass, Eric John Meyer. There is much that can be done in a truck that cannot be done in a conventional theater"and vice versa. The shows we create for a truck will forever on…
By Chantal Rodriguez, Jose Luis Valenzuela. The Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC), is proud to announce the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A Nat…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "What's Your Relationship to Your Audience?" and will be moderated by Ian Hylands @8inky"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content …
By Alice Stanley. The director implores in the playbill, "If 'Red Planet Respite' inspires you to investigate what's happening outside of your major, or your comfort zones, it will be a succ…
By HowlRound TV. The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will livestream the 24th TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders, in San Diego, California June 19-21 on the HowlRound TV network. T…
By Justin Tyler Lewis. My maturation as a young theater practitioner has nothing to do with finding and knowing the answers. I don't know them. Trust me. It has everything to do with facing …
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 pro…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. My hope is that for an issue as important as this one, we'll all extend our collaborative impulses beyond the rehearsal room. (We're not always so good at that.) Instea…
By Robert Kaplowitz. My Tony Award has not granted me any special powers. It has had no effect on my fees (so that can't be why producers would want to abolish it.) It came with no cash awar…
By Kate Kremer. Writers and directors such as Robert Wilson, MarÃa Irene Fornes, Richard Foreman, Caryl Churchill, Elizabeth LeCompte, Judith Malina, Julian Beck, Peter Brook, Ed Bullins,…
By David Dower. So my friend Clyde ValentÃn is my guest today on the Friday Phone Call. I seem to be in a mood around friends in transition. As with Deb Cullinan and Todd London, Clyde re…
By HowlRound TV. Lorella Loftus in association with The VORTEX presents Cuchulain (pronounced Kuh-HOO-lin), a re-telling of the myths of the Hound of Ulster, inspired by the plays of W.B. Ye…
By Douglas Clayton. The answer is not to sweep them under the rug, refuse to acknowledge their contributions, and hide from our own lack of understanding. And we especially cannot do this wh…
By Victoria (toy) Deiorio. Last night there was an outpouring of disgust, sadness, confusion, anger, and frustration over a decision to again treat our field as though we are not as importan…
By Jonathan Mandell. Has "diversity" become a word like "patriotism" used to be"something you need to support, and will be attacked if you question, but something that means so many differen…
By Stephan Wolfert. Reading Henry VI, parts one, two and three, I was in awe. Aside from the usual chromosomal explosion that I always get from Shakespeare's verse, I was in awe because I re…
By Chris Garza. I found myself thinking that Theatre Unbound was trying to play it safe by partnering a new artist like Isabel Nelson with Anne Bertram, a theater veteran; in Nelson's previo…
By Natalie Sanchez Valle. Theater for students of color is needed in the University: to speak about these issues and at the same time to break the "Berkeley Bubble" by showing that issues st…
By Hannah Wolf. So what has the drive to make work in Romania taught me? I learned that art that has nothing to lose makes for theater that is fierce and always has something to say.