6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Dillon Slagle. Eco theater as simply theater. It is not meant as a protest or an art installation at a climate change conference. It is a complete and independent artistic practice that h…
By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America presents a livestreaming discussion about "Immersive Theater" with Pittsburgh's Bricolage Production Company on the global, commons based, pe…
By Paul Meshejian. I've been working in the American theater, making my living, such as it is, for the past forty years. In all that time, I'm not ashamed to say I've never earned more than …
By Adam McKinney. As educators, our interests lay in providing the space for students to be leaders in their own processes of learning. We developed a site-specific dance curriculum and stud…
By W.M. Akers. In Marie Antoinette, playing through November 24 at Soho Rep, David Adjmi gives us an ego that would make Morrissey's look small. She's also got her name writ large, stretchin…
By Zuzka Sabata. Call me a convert, but theater is not literature, though there can be literature in theater. Acting is a physical function. It starts with the body. The body is the instrume…
By Mitch Mattson. In 2008, the Community Engagement Department at Arena Stage in Washington, DC hosted its first two-day Public Speaking Workshop for Cultural Attachés of the US State Depar…
By Carrie Wood. For the past twenty plus years I have been teaching theater in small-town Texas. Teaching theater in a rural school is sometimes a challenge. Theater is not always held in hi…
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 Patrick Maley. The "August Wilson American Century Cycle" series' dramatic success was no less substantial than its emotional impact. Wilson's cycle"ten plays set in the ten decades of th…
By Joel Sugerman. When we devise theater with students instead of starting with a script (and roles you have to fill them into like square pegs into octagonal slots), we can work with what i…
By Caridad Svich. What would happen if ALL, and I mean, ALL of the US Latina/o theatres in this country actually banded together to create shared programming, touring of productions and arti…
By Michael Rohd. The purpose of the Catalyst Initiative is to serve individual and ensemble artists who are interested in work that brings arts-based practice into collision with community a…
By Jennifer Bryner. There are many reasons why teaching theater is fantastic"the main reason is the kids. I get to watch them discover who they are and develop as people. This happens in mom…
By HowlRound. Wednesday's topic is "High School Theater" and Thursday's topic is "Artistic Risk" moderated by The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis @pwcenter. Both days' conversations start…
By Wyckham Avery. Let's be honest, I didn't have the slightest idea how to grade students. How do you compare a naturally gifted actor with no work ethic against a hard working but not-so-en…
By José Carrasquillo. The recent National Convening of Latina/o theatre artists hosted in the city of Boston by HowlRound at Emerson College was a significant event in the evolution of Amer…
By Kai Green. I feel a pang, sometimes, that you are not mine. I long for my own child, to be responsible for a life, to begin the writing of a new story with another human being, helping to…
By Ariel Baker-Gibbs. English playwright Nina Raine's Tribes garnered rave reviews at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, where it made its North American opening last fall, and is now ma…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Steven Simoncic's "Broken Fences", directed by Ann Filmer and Ilesa Duncan, is a nuanced and sophisticated look at gentrification. It focuses on the Garfield Park neigh…
By Alexis Clements, Black Eyed Susan. Oftentimes, when theater critics or historians talk about Black-Eyed Susan, they speak about downtown impresario Charles Ludlam , founder of the Ridicul…
By Cheryl Lynn Bruce. I act, yes. Write, too. Direct and adapt as well. I've also narrated, designed, stage managed, worked box office and the bar, proofed copy, and handled the press. I've …
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 Lily Janiak. When I first encountered Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", which was just in a production at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, I was a sophomore in high school recently moved to Tex…
By HowlRound TV. Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco presents "35 and Counting, a Symposium on Theatre & Social Justice" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound…
