6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Meron Langsner. "Fightaturgy" matters. Because it's the moments of violence on stage that are among the most direct expressions of conflict and objective, and because if they're done well…
By Meron Langsner. " Professional Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor " is apparently one of the best jobs one can possibly have when attending a cocktail party (though for the record…
By Danielle Rosvally. Theater is stressful, and (especially in the amateur world where jobs get done when volunteers have time and resources to do them) often changing. This can create a gre…
By Bess Rowen. For those of us who love Tennessee Williams for his early and later work, Christmas has come early this year. As soon as I learned that renowned avant-garde artists Mink Stole…
By Linda López McAlister. According to theater historian Brian Herrera, when the first expedition arrived from Mexico in 1598 to establish a permanent Spanish settlement in what is now Ne…
By Catherine Trieschmann. The theater tends to attract mercurial, volatile people who seem perfectly rational one day and in desperate need of meds the next. During the hatching period, I do…
By HowlRound TV. Dramatists Guild of America presents a seminar on "Consolidating Student Loans" livestreaming on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.t…
By Patricia Davis. T.S. Eliot called Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus "one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written…" Samuel Johnson deemed it impossible to produce""the barba…
By Joe Markesbery. I've been in acting school for three years at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and have a measly eight months before I make the leap myse…
By Catherine Mueller. I am most interested in how this program can empower its participants to become Activated Artists, a term I am developing to describe artists operating with a sense of …
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 HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" at the Public Theater in New York will livestream for the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv this Th…
By Holly L. Derr. I managed to take in five shows, including two solo performances, a collaboration between a Los Angeles theater company and one from the Netherlands, a deconstructed versio…
By HowlRound TV. Liminal Space Productions, London presents the European Premiere of Olives and Blood by US playwright Michael Bradford directed by Prav MJ at Brixton East, London. A play ab…
By Hannah Wolf. "Is all new theater here about communism?" I ask my friend and host, Ioana Moldovan, after seeing yet another play about the fear, terrible transgressions, and bloodshed that…
By Michael Rohd. A few years ago I started writing at HowlRound about my ideas for Civic Theater , which turned into my ideas for Civic Practice , which turned into the Center for Performanc…
By Srila Nayak. What is it that your mind was looking for? Where is your heart? For this you give your heart to everything Your heart is without direction You are destroying your heart You s…
By Srila Nayak. "To never hear again: 'There's not enough money to do a Mexican American Play.' Do we say the same about Norwegians for Ibsen?" "Artist or Latino artist? Am I one or both?" "…
By Srila Nayak. The Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening has finally arrived in Boston. October 31 saw 78 Latina/o actors, directors, playwrights, scholars, producers/administrators, …
By Lisa Portes. In 2004 and 2005, two seminal Latino/a theatre incubators closed down: the Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Latino Theatre Initiative at …
By Jose Luis Valenzuela, Chantal Rodriguez. What are the unique needs of U.S. Latina/o theater companies and artists? How do our works reflect the changing landscape of the American theater?…
By Allison Vanouse. Like the earlier project (a memorable smash), The Jungle Book employs a seasoned and celebrated figure of the theater world, Zimmerman following in the foosteps of Julie …
By Georgina Escobar. Lo que cae mal, es la obsesión con la identidad. Presiento que debemos hablar honestamente sobre la paradoja de este tema. Por ejemplo, soy mujer gay Mexicana, si--pe…
By Tlaloc Rivas. April 1978. It is a warm summer day in Barrio Logan, San Diego. My father and I are attending the annual Chicano Park Day celebration, and I am about to meet my godfather, R…
By Marisela Orta. We heard people wanting to work, but struggling against categories that others were imposing on them. We heard people longing for connection, excited to be in a room full o…
