6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Jonathan Greene. I have to wonder why Berliners are willing to bring their children to film or theater like "Pluto". Why are they more apt to present for their children's consideration an…
By W.M. Akers. Take two minutes to listen to Al Hirt's theme for the failed 60's television show, "The Green Hornet". A funky "Flight of the Bumblebee," it's as irresistible as electric shoc…
By HowlRound. Los Angeles Theatre Center Encuentro: A Festival of National Latina/o Theatre will be held October 12-November 10 2014 and will feature ten companies from around the country, p…
By Kevin Becerra. Boston's neighborhoods, some of whose origins can be traced to the 1630s, have been home to myriad political and cultural shifts over the centuries"a concept that blew my C…
By Rick Davis. As a former fellow-traveler, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale than the summiteers, all of this got me thinking: For the twenty two years of Theater of the First Amendment's …
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How hard is it to get a comedy produced?" and will be moderated by playwright Ken Ludwig @ken_ludwig and Samuel French, Inc. @MrSamuelFrench"…
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space in London presents a staged reading of "Sket" by Maya Sondhi livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at http://howlround.…
By David Dower, Alan Dupont. Zelda Fichandler once said that the institution was, for her, a context for her questions, a container for her inquiry"that she woke up every morning with things…
By Jeffrey Mosser. Alvina Krause, one of twentieth century's most famous teachers of acting, believed, "if you can act Chekhov, you can act anything!" In the summer of 1976 she was 83 years …
By Holly L. Derr. Sheryl Sandberg, author of "Lean In", has just launched a campaign to "Ban Bossy," so that girls who used to be called bossy start to be told instead that they are leaders.…
By David Dower. Today I am on the phone with Matthew Glassman and Amrita Ramanan of Double Edge Theatre , located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. We all had engagement on our minds, and I asked …
By Yoni Oppenheim. As a response to the realities of the current state of the theater for religiously observant theater artists, I co-founded 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company with likeminded a…
By Allison Vanouse. It is fascinating to see the experimental plays of Suzuki's generation, like Berkoff's "Metamorphosis", or the "Alice in Wonderland" of André Gregory's Manhattan Theatre…
By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons presents a panel discussion "On Kisses and Chemistry: A Discourse on Stage Kiss" featuring "Stage Kiss" playwright Sarah Ruhl, actor Hamish Linklater, p…
By HowlRound TV. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and CultureHub in New York present a performance of "Bum Phillips All-American Opera" by Monk Parrots livestreaming on the global, commons-…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for David Ives' play, Venus in Fur, featuring director Joanie Schultz. This conversation will livestream on the globa…
By HowlRound TV. Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents "The Power of Hip Hop Culture: A Conversation with Clyde Valentin and Will Power" livestreaming on the global, common…
By Douglas Howe. We've all been there. The curtain call is over, the house lights come up, and a representative from the theater comes out on stage to inform the audience that, in a few minu…
By Deborah Yarchun. Culturally specific theater is particularly powerful when it subverts a stereotype, or offers a story much different from what audiences are used to seeing. This is what …
By Shirley Serotsky. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the meaningful questions it raises about the parameters of identity. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the revealing and re…
By HowlRound TV. Emerson College in Boston presents a livestreaming conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and acclaimed author Ayad Akthar on the global, commons-based peer pro…
By Aaron Henne. What make theater Jewish? This strikes me as just as complex a query as, "What makes a person Jewish?" or, for that matter, "What makes theater?" To any of these questions, s…
By Patricia Davis. Stephen Temperley's "Souvenir: a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins", is a tender send-up of delusional self-belief. The British playwright sets the action in…
By Paul M. Davis. I would like to see deeper and more fruitful engagements between artists and technologists within the civic sphere. In practice, civic technologists could learn much from a…
By Seth Rozin. Despite the fact that I have never thought of myself as an artist engaged in an exploration of my own background, I have somehow, almost inadvertently authored a trilogy of pl…
