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By Dara Weinberg. The last two posts of this series have documented the kinds of rehearsal scheduling and breaks that some of the Polish post-Grotowski theaters use. However, in addition to …
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "The Playwright and The Panel: Improving Theatrical Discourse" and will be moderated by Doug Howe @NITEcorp"who like all of our moderators, au…
By David Winitsky. Jewish theater? What does that mean? Is that redundant (insert your "theater would be dead without the Jews" joke here). Is it just old fashioned (are we talking Yiddish t…
By Guy Ben-Aharon. #JewPlay: What is the future of Jewish theater in the United States? In this series , co-curators David Winitsky, Artistic Director of New York's Jewish Plays Project and …
By Melinda Lopez. I have been making apple scones / For a friend who died / Doug, my neighbor, whose last name / I don't know
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around w…
By David Dower. Today I have the great fun of spending time on the phone with Lana Lesley and Kirk Lynn of Austin's Rude Mechanicals . We've been talking to each other for years, and you may…
By Lindsay Timmington. People kept telling me, "There are no small parts, only small actors" and "small roles can steal the show." And the more I heard it the more I convinced myself I was d…
By Meron Langsner. What Playwrights and Dramaturgs Need to Know About Staging Violence. These two articles are based on a workshop I've taught at venues that include ATHE (Association for Th…
By HowlRound TV. The Public Theater & British Council present The Artists Exchange featuring Tarell Alvin McCraney and Kwame Kwei-Armah livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer pr…
By Marcina Zaccaria. Theater is always a place for community. Often, a festival can provide a rigorous forum to investigate issues surrounding community. What is the need for stories? What i…
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
By Jonathan Mandell. Can Edward Albee save the Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant? Can theater change the world? Those are the questions I asked after I attended an early perfor…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How Does your Life in the Arts impact your Relationship(s)?" and will be moderated by Hilary Bettis @HilaryBettis"who like all of our moderat…
By Jess K. Smith. Clear direction, followed by "does that make sense?" Clear direction, diluted by "is that ok with you?" Clear direction, undercut by "can we try that?" Clear direction, und…
By Hannah Hessel Ratner. Jess Smith calls for a "revolution of language" and a revolution is necessary. However, the revolution is not about language, it's about creating a world built on re…
By HowlRound TV. Join Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what mo…
By Holly L. Derr. This dispatch, however, may be of particular interest to my colleagues in Los Angeles, where the explosion of cable TV and web-based content has created a thriving job mark…
By Aditi Kapil. A case for an open access theater culture. Backstory: Since the 2011"2012 season, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis has practiced Radical Hospitality, providing no-cost acce…
By Bostin Christopher. Perseverance Theatre has a long history of creating new work. A great deal of that new work embodies one of Perseverance's core values: regional voice. In 35 years, Pe…
By Noel Raymond. We completed our ArtPlace funded Arts on Chicago initiative in June of 2013. Arts on Chicago engaged forty artists in twenty placemaking projects to turn a ten-block stretch…
By Jim Lasko. The Great Chicago Fire Festival is a new signature event for the City of Chicago. It is a citywide spectacle, co-produced by Redmoon Theater and the City of Chicago. It will be…
By Jamie Bennett. "Creative Placemaking" describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities' social…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Rivendell Theatre Ensemble's premiere production of Joel Drake Johnson's "Rasheeda Speaking" (January 9-February 15, 2014), directed by Sandy Shinner, explores racial t…
By HowlRound TV. The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco presents a livestreaming staged reading of playwright-in-residence Andrew Saito's "Stegosaurus" on the global, commons-based peer p…
