By Holly L. Derr. As Co-Artistic Director John Sloan of The Antaeus Company, who also acts with the company, put it, "You are instantly that much more alive and awake and listening that much…
By Marshall Botvinick. The indefensible cannot be defended, which means that we are ultimately left with the disturbing yet undeniable paradox that terrible people often create works of unim…
By Alex Ates. Has the American regional theater betrayed its audiences by not telling their stories, by not telling stories about the world around us? Has the mission of the not-for-profit r…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. For my own part, I'm excited by the thought of using a speech-to-text tool of some kind to "take dictation," as it were, during an improvisation exercise. Imagine the m…
By Jonathan Mandell. Why are so many accents on stage so awful? They aren't in the movies. I first noticed this problem as a child on a family trip to London, where my parents for unfathomab…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents The Holiday Hip-Hop Theatre Explosion "a full evening of family-friendly performance, hosted by Zell Miller III and featuring DaShade Mo…
By Alice Stanley. The Mighty Vandals is successful from a different standpoint"one of cultural celebration and education. New Carpa Theater Company was founded in 2002, dedicated to creating…
By Kyle A. Thomas. With every conference I attend and every person I talk with currently holding a PhD in theater… the mantra is always the same: there are vastly more PhD graduates in the…
By HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" livestreams for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday, December 19 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
By Allison Vanouse. One is likely to be familiar with some work of the Chinese-born American choreographer Shen Wei without knowing it: it was Wei who created the spectacular opening ceremon…
By Pearl Cleage. My sister took two of her grandchildren to see the production of "A Christmas Carol" at the Alliance Theatre and reported back to me her surprise at the multi-colored childr…
By A. Nora Long. I know a number of extraordinary artists in the country who give up making art, because they want a family, they want to go to the dentist, they want to eat vegetables. This…
By HowlRound TV. In partnership with the United States Department of State, Arena Stage teaching artists have been working in Zagreb, Croatia with young adults with physical disabilities to …
By Ezra LeBank. I would like to argue that it is urgent that the national community of university theater departments shift the processes and expectations in our production seasons in order …
By Patrick Gabridge. In my life as a farmer, there really is a time to plan, a time to sow, a time to weed, and a time to reap. In theater, there are periods to think up new ideas, to write …
By Lauren Gunderson. The first question from an audience of about sixty who stayed for the talkback of one of my new plays came from a guy who looked post-middle-age, glasses, uncool hair, j…
By HowlRound TV. The Playwrights Foundation presents The 4th Annual San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at h…
By Matt McGeachy. Taking a similar view as their starting point, creators/performers Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir created a show exploring myriad components of gay heritage, …
By Iulia Popovici. But what interested me in that scene, besides the actual incredible fact that in a Romanian city somebody had decided to build, in 2011, a wall between "white people" and …
By HowlRound TV. Join the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and members of the Latina/o Theatre Commons as they share ideas and outcomes from a recent 2013 national convening of the Latina/o artist…
By Andrea Tompa. As everyday life worsened in Romania, food, public services such as electricity, water, and gas started to disappear. Anything with a concrete reference to these problems co…
By Andrew Haydon. Earlier this year I went to Romania, ostensibly to watch the excellent National Dance Showcase. Contemporary dance is, by and large, a wordless form. Okay, a lot of contemp…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Paul is a controversial figure, and Silk Road Rising's extensive dramaturgical materials paint a compelling picture of a controversy. Paul has been characterized in man…
By HowlRound. If you have an idea for a topic or if you want to moderate the discussion, contact us on Twitter @HowlRound or post a comment here. Our next Howl will be on Thursday, December …
By Ioana Mălău. Fast-forwarding to our times, Ivan Vyrypaev, award winning Russian playwright and filmmaker, described the current period as an era of vague criteria, unset rules, and …