6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Jeffrey Mosser. foolsFURY is a theater ensemble from San Francisco that sees advantages in working with playwrights and devisors, and seizes opportunities to become a touring company. As …
By David Dower. My guest for this call is the Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Deb and I have worked alongside each other for decades now"though that m…
By Bruce Norris. In the last couple of seasons I've become aware of a ticket scheme already practiced by some of our larger regional theaters, and currently under consideration at some where…
By Alice Stanley. In the talkback following "Amnesia", someone asked a pertinent question: "Have you ever gotten into any trouble telling this story because you're white?" The conversation o…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents a conversation with Anne Bogart livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlR…
By HowlRound TV. NoPassport and Louisiana State University Department of Theatre present the 8th annual NoPassport Theatre Conference"Dreaming the Americas: The Diasporic Imagination livestr…
By Paula Vogel, Blanka Zizka. Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq is the result of two years of development, beginning with a conversation between Paula Vogel and Blanka Zizka during a playwriting…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Storytelling in the digital age is a complex task. On the web, we need to embrace a more interactive version of storytelling than we embrace on our stages. Consumers of…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Next Theatre Company presented the Midwest premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's "Luck of the Irish". The multigenerational drama revolves around a house that is "ghost-bough…
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 Hannah Wolf. I sit in theaters today and I question who this contemporary audience is and if they find themselves represented onstage. The demographics of the audience are different, thea…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Solo Work" and will be moderated by Laura Steinroeder @SoloNewWorksLA"who like all of our moderators, authors, and content producers"self-sel…
By Michael Rau, Will Davis. Rather than rely on a production model where the script has all the answers, what if we assumed the script was a powerful tool among many powerful tools? What if …
By Bradley Diuguid. I grew up entranced by Jim Henson's Muppets. Performing with wry but gentle humor, they pulled back the curtain to snicker at backstage life and deftly expressed all the …
By Meron Langsner. Stage combat is the art of creating the illusion of violence for the sake of storytelling. Some illusions are easier and/or less expensive than others. One thing I've foun…
By HowlRound TV. The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson at Emerson College, Boston present a performance and book launch for Daniel Beaty's "Trans…
By David Dower. One of the dimensions of practice at ArtsEmerson that shapes this environment is the direct connection to the students at Emerson College. We are in our second year of an eff…
By Stephen Sachs. When Joseph Campbell spoke of the power of myth he didn't have LA stage actors in mind. Yet a powerful and prevailing myth has spread for years in theater centers throughou…
By Lily Janiak. "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.""Mahatma Gandhi. If we applied Gandhi's metric to theater, we'd be judging ourselves by how we treat"n…
By HowlRound TV. How did Actors Theatre get started? Where did the idea come from to create the Humana Festival? Why Louisville, Kentucky? Through a collection of anecdotes, memories, tall t…
By HowlRound TV. New approaches and new ideas for the American theater are increasingly in demand. But where do we look for inspiration? And what steps do we take once the spark ignites? Thr…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana present the "1st Indianapolis One-Minute Play Festival" livestreaming on the global, co…
By HowlRound TV. University of Wales Trinity St David (UK) presents "Barbie Caerdroia""a Welsh translation of "Trojan Barbie" by Christine Evans. Translation by Elinor Wyn Reynolds and perfo…
By Meg Taintor. This relationship to the college is central to my work. As the student engagement coordinator, I am constantly trying to find authentic ways to connect our students with our …
By Akiba Abaka. The twenty-first century American theater is a communal experience where artists and audiences are bound in an existence which deems them equal parts subject, spectator and b…
