6,634 stories from HowlRound
By HowlRound. "The field is not yielding the actors I need yet, and I'm wondering why this is so. So they're either not being trained properly or the pool is not diverse enough. For example,…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. We develop waterfall marketing campaigns, we sell waterfall tickets (bought far in advance of the intended date… by which time a theatergoer might not feel like atten…
By Thea Rodgers. So the Romeo and Juliet that just premiered on Broadway"you know the one featuring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in the title roles"in some ways is the consummate modern …
By Danielle Rosvally. In the Boston area alone, there are several community theaters which would fall within her parameters of "professional"; these theaters are run by dedicated staff of lo…
By Eleanor Regan. I am not interested in seeing who can yell their opinion the loudest while an infinite number of people yell their own only slightly different opinions. I am interested in …
By HowlRound TV. Saturday, October 19 from 10:30am-5:30pm EDT"The central question for our conference using Open Space Technology is: How can we, as emerging arts leaders, drive innovation a…
By Lily Janiak. Do their female characters represent as wide a range of the human experience as their males? In a world in which we actually have to ask this question, to make your young fem…
By Kacy O'Brien. What would happen if a conference could be planned as one long coffee break? What kinds of insights and actions would come from a full day of coffee-break connections? Our c…
By HowlRound TV. October 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Southern Theater , the organizational predecessor to Junebug Productions in New Orleans. Talkin' Revolution is a historic…
By Jonathan Mandell. Anne Washburn started watching The Simpsons and writing plays at about the same time, and didn't think they had anything to do with one another until she wrote Mr. Burns…
By Michael "Quess?" Moore. "We propose to establish a theater in the deep South… a combination of art and social awareness… through theater, we think to open a new area of protest."
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, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV…
By Allison Vanouse. Even more than the other cultural encampments that dot Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow enchants. It is a green place that seems unreal, folded into the fo…
By Francesca McKenzie. Arts organizations can no longer solely depend on traditional means of fiscal support such as federal money, grants or corporate sponsorship, and must look to more inn…
By Kelvin Dinkins, Jr.. Though I didn't get my MBA and opted for the more practical path of an MFA (wink), I am certain that understanding mergers and collaborations is essential when consid…
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 Karina Mangu-Ward. I believe that questioning assumptions about how we conduct our organizations is essential, that innovation should be considered a core competency for all organizations…
By HowlRound. "I don't know what Latino aesthetics are, and don't teach them, but I would love to learn! Challenges to educators (me) are tied to the number of Latino plays produced in a yea…
By Patricia Davis. Theater J, whose mission is to produce plays that are politically engaged and thought provoking, as well as personal, passionate, and entertaining, could not have selected…
By Jeremy Stoller. I spoke with several individuals who possess a broader view of the arts in New Jersey to get a better perspective for myself and for the New Jersey City Series. Here are s…
By Dan Swern. The future of artistic development in New Jersey is in partnerships and resource and space sharing. Institutions can island-hop, just like their patrons, and in the process inc…
By Jon Barker. It is odd to define New Jersey actors as "local" actors. So many of my fellow theater artists that live 'in state' constantly work on the other side of the Hudson River and vi…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV…
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 Holly L. Derr. Though Shakespeare created around 798 male characters, his dramatic corpus contains only about 149 female ones. That's a ratio of roughly sixteen to three. Yet every year t…
