By HowlRound TV. Let's Geaux, Y'all! The National Performance Network Annual Meeting in New Orleans will be livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at …
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 12 at 2pm PST (Vancouve…
By Ioana Tamas. Even though after the fall of communism in 1989, the democratisation of artistic life gave an immense opportunity to accept new forms of expression and organisation, it also …
By HowlRound TV. This information session will introduce the Many Voices program's two tracks (Mentorships and the recently expanded Fellowships), share helpful tips and insights into applyi…
By Iulia Popovici. Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism"playing the monkey for the zoo visitors tha…
By HowlRound TV. Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents " Aristotle was a Man! ", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic struct…
By Holly L. Derr. But Katy Perry is certainly not the first Westerner to misrepresent the geisha. The history of the Japanese geisha is long and complicated: The term has not always meant th…
By Holly L. Derr. Before they do their own fair share of shooting, the characters in Anton Chekhov's unfinished play "Platonov" (1878), an early dramatic work written while he was a schoolbo…
By HowlRound TV. Seth Lepore presents "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names""a theatrical web-a-thon spectacle that will look at the meta-examination of both failing and succeeding in real time"live…
By Jacob Richman. There is a mixed lineage of performance work involving audience movement, from ancient parades and processions, to Fluxus non-genre "Happenings," to Punchdrunk's wildly suc…
By Chelsea Pace. Each fight must be run through at least twice prior to any run of a scene or piece. And then swings and understudies need to do it twice as well. I know it takes longer than…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which is livestreaming for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound …
By Alice Stanley. Faithful to its name, A Good Death is about, well, death, but mainly about how we choose to view it. In particular, the play examines how who might be termed "professionals…
By Pearl Cleage. The day after the opening, I get an email from a lawyer friend who says: "Okay, Pearl, you're the expert. Explain the second act of that play we saw last night." I sigh and …
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 . …
By Ira Gamerman. Because the indisputable fact is, you guys are in charge, and I'm not. You guys work for the organizations and theaters, which are in a position to not only help me and othe…
By Meron Langsner. While historical documents and techniques relating to the practice of dueling are invaluable resources, and their study greatly enriches the practice of theatrical combat,…
By Adam Burnett, Jud Knudsen. We contend that contemporary theater is largely a false market supported by philanthropy's phantom seats and unless we want to really invest in letting it fail …
By Andrew Roblyer. I have trust issues. This is an important realization for me, especially when I'm managing artistic and organizational development. So I've decided to dedicate this month'…
By Allison Vanouse. Alfred Jarry's Pere Ubu embodies the horrifying insensitivity, violence and banality of the distant powers that run the modern world. But David Thomas' Pere Ubu is an org…
By Jack Reuler, Aditi Kapil. Over 50 percent of the people entering by way of our Radical Hospitality program are under thirty, 37 percent of them make less than $25,000 a year, 30 percent a…
By Matt McGeachy. In the Daniel MacIvor short scene, "Kevin," featured in The Wrecking Ball #15 " To Russia with (Gay) Love , an impossibly cute little boy tells us that the problem is that,…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Technology both reflects and changes the ways in which we think. The interactivity of the internet is embedded inside of us. The internet is inside of us, even when we …
By Tlaloc Rivas. This is a list of plays that educators, theater practitioners, and students should have access to. I believe these 101 works mark only the beginning of a comprehensive surve…
By Daniel Kelin. I have not conducted a scientific study comparing scripted work and devising, but my experiences have pointed up one dynamic that feeds my dedication to a devising-based pro…