By HowlRound TV. Inspired by pioneer British filmmaker, artist, gardener and gay rights activist Derek Jarman, known for such controversial films as "Sebastiane", "The Last of England", and …
By Bertie Ferdman. Where "This Was the End" stood out was in playing with age in two ways. The first was with the presence of older bodies onstage, having an elder cast be their age and all …
By Kevin Becerra. No amount of research or conversation can quite prepare you for a play where eleven deaf-blind actors are telling their own stories and dreams while baking bread. Adina Tal…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston was started by four people: Andrea Genser, Susan Kosoff, Jane Staab, and Tony Hancock. The mission of the theatre was to make a prof…
By HowlRound TV. Re-imagined 20th-century music and original video projections swirl with neuro-physics dream music built from oscillating fields and statistical mechanics in this new chambe…
By Bess Rowen. The New York Neo-Futurists are a group of performers who are best known for their long-running show "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", which is their attempt to do 30 s…
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 Christine Bruno. Not only is the portrayal of disability by an able-bodied actor equivalent to blackface"what we in the disability community derisively call "cripping up" (pretending to h…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presents a conversation with author Soman Chainani livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced H…
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 Ariel Baker-Gibbs. The landscape of theater accessibility for deaf people bears a lot of questions, many that lead back to the question of art and its purpose. Theater and art inspires us…
By Miranda Craigwell. HowlRound is working with playwright residency sites around the country to track the impact of what it means to have a playwright on staff. At each of the fourteen thea…
By Garrett Ayers. Over the course of my freelance directing and teaching career, I have observed a troubling trend. The professional actors I direct, and the undergraduates I teach, are havi…
By David Dower. Today my guests are Deb Stein and Suli Holum. Together they are Stein|Holum Projects and ArtsEmerson is about to premiere their second piece, The Wholehearted. Their earlier …
By Jonathan Mandell. March and April are always the most frenzied months for New York drama critics, with nearly half of the entire Broadway season's openings crammed into the few short week…
By HowlRound TV. T he One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) (Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Arti…
By Jeffrey Mosser. So what is the model? Where is the Venn Diagram? Which flowchart should I follow to start my ensemble theater? From the similarities of these three case studies I've attem…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents The Art of Collective Invention conversation livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer p…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents Perspectives in Theatre Criticism livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced How…
By Matt McGeachy. The idea to theatrically explore the theme of forgiveness came to director Soheil Parsa and writer/performer Peter Farbridge while travelling in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2…
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 Casey Cipriani. But this particular day I was walking uphill in ninety-five degrees heat wearing hosiery, a corset, a silk slip, a long sleeved collared shirt, a wool skirt and a wool coa…
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 Jennifer Lane. Last week was one of those weeks where a handful of organizations decided to send out their rejections on the same day, a sort of "kick 'er while she's down" conspiracy. I'…
By HowlRound TV. The Foundry Theatre, New York presents Radical Imagination: A Conversation with Robin Kelley & Taylor Mac livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRo…