By Michael Malek Najjar. When the history of intercultural theatre is written, we will always remember the directors that created these works (i.e., Brecht, Barba, Taymor, Ninagawa, Ong), bu…
By HowlRound TV. Get advice and get to work! Livestreaming on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv from The Public Theater, NYC this Wednesday, February 5 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) /…
By Jacqueline E. Lawton. As an African American woman playwright from a poor, working class, racist, country town in East Texas, I learned early in life that I am part of a community of peop…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Parenting and the Arts" taking place on Thursday, February 6 on Twitter hashtag #newplay at 11am PST " 12pm PST (Vancouver) / 1pm CST " 2pm C…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Race and Representation in American Theater" taking place on Thursday, February 6 on Twitter hashtag #newplay at 11am PST " 12pm PST (Vancouv…
By Rebecca Stevens. This week at HowlRound we ask the questions: Can a white person write, adapt, direct, or perform stories from a different culture or race? Is it a huge step forward when …
By Talleri McRae. While NBC's continued commitment to a live broadcast is to be commended, I also believe some thoughtful reflection is necessary to improve the quality of its future program…
By Marcina Zaccaria. In "Dust to Dust," Elizabeth Hess explored the violence and fears surrounding the systematic rape of women in Bosnia. The war in Bosnia took place between 1992-1995. Bos…
By Karen Malpede. Relatively recently, the climate modeling of climate scientists has allowed us to see into the future. While we don't know everything we know enough to ask if we wish to da…
By Catherine Trieschmann. It seems to me that the problem is not my over-emotional creative personality, but my choice to pursue a living in the theater. Clearly, no one in their right mind …
By Allison Vanouse. Actor's Shakespeare Project believes that Shakespeare's words "are urgently relevant to our times." Significantly, ASP carries the torch for a genre of Shakespeare perfor…
By HowlRound TV. Get advice and get to work! Livestreaming on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv from The Public Theater, NYC this Wednesday, January 29 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) /…
By Ebony Noelle Golden. I direct The Ballad of Zimmerman for this production. Ballad is a difficult piece that asks viewers to step inside the mind of George Zimmerman, as he reveals his tho…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Marketing the New Play" and will take place on Thursday, January 30 on hashtag #newplay at 11am PST " 12pm PST (Vancouver) / 1pm CST " 2pm CS…
By Annah Feinberg. In order to bring culturally relevant theater back to America's stages, nonprofit theater organizations must change in a radical way. In many cases, I believe that this ch…
By Dara Weinberg. Yes, some rehearsals (not all, mind you) are paid, and have to be regulated, legally, as work. But why did we decide, as US practitioners, that theater rehearsals fell so w…
By Dani Snyder-Young. This collaboration is a very real crossing of boundaries, bringing together artists, craftspeople, and audience members who might not otherwise have any access to each …
By Sarah Kahrl. This is the dilemma that was front-of-mind for us when we set out two years ago to create the Kenyon Playwrights Conference. There seems to be a vulnerable moment, early in t…
By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre, Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for Rebecca Gilman's play "Luna Gale". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced How…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and The Deering Estate At Cutler present the 2nd South Florida One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer …
By HowlRound TV. Arena Stage in Washington, DC and Voices of Now: India present two original plays livestreaming from Chennai, India at the Sri Karpagavalli Matriculation School, Mylapore in…
By Summer Banks. And as the performance went on, the human-power component continues to shape and inform the text. Lower energy from the actors translates nearly instantaneously into lower l…
By Sarah Katherine Bowden. So I ask, is there a way to make disability a part of the world of a play, without reducing it to stereotype or "triumph-over-adversity" tales? Is there a way to m…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX and Gale Theatre Company present a performance of W.K. by Katherine Wilkinson livestreaming from Austin, Texas on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRoun…