By HowlRound TV. South Coast Repertory's 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in Costa Mesa, California presents the panel "What is the role of the playwright?" livestreaming on the glob…
By Jonathan Mandell. The most prolifically produced living playwright in New York this season lives in Texas. I saw five works of theater by Kirk Lynn in four different New York venues over …
By Sara Guerrero. The project's success has been due to a number of factors, including (but not limited to): playwright-in-residence José Cruz González, someone I have looked up to since…
By Julie Marie Myatt, José Cruz Gonzaléz. José Cruz González interviewed by Julie Marie Myatt, two of South Coast Repertory's playwrights-in-residence. José Cruz González is the pl…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How do you translate theater into other languages and into other cultures?" and will be moderated by Playwrights Foundation @pwfoundation"who…
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 Kelly Miller. There is a community and artistic engagement revolution happening at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California right now. And it's being led by our playwrights. José …
By Joelle Jameson. The neglect of playwriting as a genre in what I'll lovingly call the creative writing industrial machine"poetry, fiction, and non-fiction/memoir are the ruling three"hasn'…
By Loy Webb. We cannot be preoccupied before or during a show with differences of race, class, sexuality, etc., and assume because of these differences the lives of those we see before us ar…
By David Dower. Many of you have already read the story of my first meeting with Olga Garay-English in 2002 in Portland, Oregon. A TCG-sponsored gathering called New Works, New Ways. From th…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Across the festival, every production I saw had a multi-racial cast; "brownsville song" and "Steel Hammer" deal explicitly with race and cast accordingly, and all the o…
By Deborah Stein, Suli Holum. The second time I worked with my boxing trainer, I burst out crying. I don't know what set me off, I know that it was at the end of the session and I was exhaus…
By Sam Marks. But maybe the reason I obsess over sports is because of how very different they are from what I have chosen to do. In sports, there's the illusion of fairness and opportunity. …
By Patricia Davis. "One of the most important things the occupation has succeeded in doing," Nabil Al-Ra'ee says, "is to kill hope, to shut down the mind, and to kill the imagination. You ca…
By HowlRound TV. Join SMU from Dallas, Texas as they present the conversation Transforming Arts and Culture Nationwide livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV n…
By Will Power. Isn't boxing just like writing a play? First, you have to train (the muscles in the gym if a boxer, the mind facing the screen if a writer). Then you have to fight! (What we i…
By Srila Nayak. Based on an actual photograph, the main action of Lucy Kirkwood's play is an American photojournalist's unyielding quest to unlock the mystery of a photograph taken by him du…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Dramaturgical Collaborations in Devised Work" and will be moderated by @ArtsEmerson"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content prod…
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 Mat Smart. In an age where so much can be recorded and on-demand, theater is an antidote to spending our day looking at a screen, to watching the YouTube videos and television shows anyti…
By Greg Redlawsk. A sampling of some of the major non-profits suggests that there are at least, on average, 8 to 10 unpaid interns working at any given time in the average mid to large sized…
By HowlRound TV. Theatre Bay Area presents three livestreaming sessions from their annual conference on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) & Perseverance Theatre present the 1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced Howl…
By David Dower. Today I get a chance to talk to a team of brothers who have been making work together for decades: David and Jeremy Wilhelm . There's such hybridity in their creative partner…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. We did "Pippi", and we had American Sign Language interpretation every weekend. This is because Wendy Lement, the producer at Wheelock, directed the play herself, and w…