6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Melisa Annis. Does my play choose the title, or does that first title inform my play? At fourteen pages in, who knows what will happen to these characters? Who knows what will happen in t…
By HowlRound. The Weekly Howl is a peer produced, open access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .*…
By Jonathan Norton. Local playwrights in Dallas have the difficult task of competing for that one slot against some of the most talented and well established playwrights on the national scen…
By Robert Neal. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was an actor's actor; the best, many said, of his generation. And yet, in the aftermath of his death, you realize that he was just like the rest of us…
By David Dower. So, today is something completely different. I talk with Leah Karpel, Marc Pierre, and Michael Anthony Williams"each of whom was involved in a production of Jackie Siblees Dr…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival & Victory Gardens Theater present The 4th Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
By Jonathan Mandell. This year, for the first time since the award began in 1976, the Regional Tony Award is going to a theater in New York City, the Signature Theatre Company. I was shocked…
By Polly Carl. Keynote speech delivered at North Dakota State University "Playing on Common Ground: Theatre and the Complex Communities of the 21st Century" celebrating 100 years of theater …
By HowlRound TV. VORTEX Repertory Company in Austin, Texas presents a livestreaming performance of "RoBoVoX" on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at http://howlro…
By Tlaloc Rivas. And although I'm proud of the production and from the nearly-all Latina creative team that gave "Mariela en el Desierto" an authentic voice, an issue arose as the last weeke…
By Holly L. Derr. Los Angeles' combination of working artists, technological development, and some of America's top universities means that some of the most innovative work in the country is…
By Catherine Trieschmann. A couple of months ago, HowlRound hosted a discussion about parenting and theater on Twitter hashtag #newplay, and perhaps the most interesting question to emerge f…
By Jamie Gahlon. Since the October 2013 Latina/o Theatre Commons ( LTC ) National Convening in Boston, the LTC has been moving forward on a number of upcoming planned initiatives. We have a …
By Jordan Butterfield. We produced "A Christmas Carol" and adapted our own versions of "Peter Pan" and "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". The students reveled in the attention from thei…
By Hannah Fisher. A friend or peer might see a show and say that the relationships felt true to life or true to her experiences, which makes for a satisfying evening in their eyes. While I c…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Writing & Producing New Plays for the Indie, High School, College, and Community Theatre Markets" and will be moderated by Amy Rose Marsh…
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 Rob Yoho. Franchising has had limited exposure within the American theatrical landscape. In fact, only a select few theater companies have experimented with independent franchises of thei…
By David Dower. If you don't know these guys and their work, check out their website. Michael and Abby are following their own muse and it is taking them along the road less traveled. I saw …
By Rick Gilbert. We usually consider a fight choreographer's job to be staging the fights so that they are safe. Certainly safety is essential: actors should not be getting hurt in the exerc…
By HowlRound. Are you the next HowlRound Fellow? HowlRound is looking for editors/writers/producers/entrepreneurs who make things happen"who are ready and passionate to dive into working on …
By Alice Stanley. "So long as it's got a cunt it's all right with you!" Stevie barks in Edward Albee's 2002 Tony-award winning play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" while interrogating her husb…
By HowlRound TV. StageSource, Boston presents the Defining Gender Parity Town Hall livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday, …
By David Dower. All of a sudden, I had the visceral sensation of a melting away, a fog lifting, a waking up. It was physical and it was emotional. It stopped my breath. …The moment I saw T…
By Rick Dildine. Shakespeare is credited with writing 38 plays. Some say as many as 43 and some say as few as zero; no matter what, all are in the public domain. I thought: "What if we gave …
