By HowlRound TV. Don't miss this pioneering experiment from one of America's leading visionaries for the stage. "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the globa…
By Dara Weinberg. We need to spend a little time talking about the Julia Child of Polish theater"Jerzy Grotowski"before we can get on to the contemporary companies which have emerged from th…
By Lily Janiak. San Francisco: Repurposed Theatre's production of Rachel Luann Strayer's "Drowning Ophelia" offers a critic's greatest pleasure: discovering a new company of merit.
By Amanda Boyle. When I spoke to the students about types of LGBT characters that they are familiar with, many found that the characters fall within a limited range. Student 5 said, "Trans a…
By Holly L. Derr. This particular framing of the conversation about the need for diversity in the American theater has been happening since the 1980s, and all of the participants at this pan…
By Hannah Wolf. This year held the first ever National Independent Theater Festival. Independent theater here is a young community, about 18 years old, but in the last ten years it's explode…
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Stage to Screen/Screen to Stage: Lost in Translation?" which will be about the transition of a work from stage to screen and vice-versa, and …
By Polly Carl. The deleterious effects of criticism are underscored by mainstream writers such as Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood in the New York Times, who revel in their power to destro…
By Jonathan Mandell. The conversations about the film adaptation of the play August: Osage County and the live television broadcast of the musical The Sound of Music have not been kind. But …
By HowlRound TV. The 2014 Under the Radar Festival Symposium and Culturebot's Scanning the Landscape discussions will broadcast live on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV …
By Kyna Hamill. I've been asked to do a soldier cutting off their own hand and a character's tongue being cut out and replaced with a new tongue that speaks a magical new language…; a char…
By HowlRound TV. Don't miss this pioneering experiment from one of America's leading visionaries for the stage. "The Disinherited": Live Cinema Performance Event will livestream on the globa…
By Patrick Gabridge. In theater, it's easy to mistake weather for climate. If I have a string of productions, I suddenly think the world has turned around and good things are happening all o…
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. So the first lesson we've taken away from becoming The Welders: the world isn't really against us. In fact, the world seems to have wanted something very much…
By HowlRound TV. The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) present The 3rd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based,…
By Jack Serio. If a high school's production of "Rent" has been cancelled, that director certainly isn't going to push for a David Mamet play next season. These high school administrators ar…
By HowlRound TV. Circus Chickendog's show at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on at Friday, Januar…
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. I…
By Chris Garza. According to Abbey Swafford, in the playwright's notes, the seed of "Parhelion" came from a day ten years ago when Swafford saw what she thought was a sundog after she climbe…
By Stephen Spotswood. A while back, a fellow theater artist who has considerable experience working with seniors told me that it's a lot like working with inner-city middle school students. …
By Tom Horan. What people imagine less often is a playwright-in-residence who relates only tangentially to the business of a theater (either out of disinterest or lack of access), who desper…
By Dara Weinberg. Great Polish theater has scraped its way into existence from stateless, state-in-exile, or state-straightened circumstances. European Union coffers can't take credit for th…
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the blog this past year.
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. For now, we leave 2013 by offering you an assortment of quotes from the HowlRound's NewCrit this past …
By HowlRound. January 2014 marks the three-year anniversary of the launch of HowlRound. Since our beginning, we have published nearly 600 theater artists who have contributed a journal artic…