6,634 stories from HowlRound
By Desi Shelton. So this has to be a calling, because if not, I need to check myself in and be examined. Especially because I built an African American theater company even as I watched Afri…
By Polly Carl. The last time I wore a skirt was in 1987 for Junior Parents Weekend in college. In some moment of self-awareness, seeing myself in full makeup and girl clothes, I knew I had t…
By EM Lewis. Everything was instantly better when I was invited to join the Passage Theater Play Lab. I had found my people. My new play people. I began to think of New Jersey as home.
By Mara Isaacs. I moved to Princeton, New Jersey from Los Angeles in 1995 for an opportunity to produce plays for McCarter Theater . I moved from a flagship institution (the Mark Taper Forum…
By Jeremy Stoller. Included in this series are the stories of people who have made strong, wholehearted commitments to their neighborhoods, alongside those of people who have managed quite s…
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"It has lit a fire in me; I can clearly see my role as an artist now. It has brought more attention to Latina/os as a growing population"one that must be not only contended with, but underst…
Dramatists Guild of America presents DG Conservatory: Behind the Music-al presents MuTube"The role of New Media in Contemporary Musical Theater livestreaming on the global, peer produced, op…
In my mind, we were a small ensemble company in a small city with no artistic reputation and, at that point, still no ensemble. I was hoping for fifty submissions, and that was if we were ex…
The pace in baseball is alternately a meditation and a flash, with attention pricking on a central drama between the pitcher and the batter, while allowing for unbelievable performances (Wil…
There are many problems with an industry that functions on the "love or money" model. In theater, this practice is most commonly expected on the fringes of the trade; the places closest to t…
This is a look at the impact a critic can and does have on an entire community, how critics can nurture that community, and how the shrinking of the critical landscape in Chicago and elsewhe…
Is ensemble a group of people working together over a long duration? Is it a non-hierarchical organizational structure? A way of being and working together with a shared sense of priorities?
British Council USA Arts presents The Illusion of Power and the Power of Illusion: Viewing Media Through an Artistic Lens , a livestreaming panel discussion on the global, peer produced, ope…
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 .* Join us Thurs…
These contemporary installations forcefully connect past injustices to the present-day debates over how Africans are treated in the EU. These are not characters, but the actual people themse…
I think about paradoxical needs this experience embodies"for community and solitude; structures and flexibility; stability and change"and the need for all of it, simultaneously, in our lives…
We have a particular kind of creative and enterprising expertise that we should recognize as abundance. Focusing on ourselves as exceptionally resourceful, rather than under-resourced, allow…
Casting gets at the very root of how we tell our stories. The bodies we see onstage make our experiences visible. For invisible people, like trans and gender nonconforming people, it is nece…
We had to keep stereotypes at bay. Not just that we reject them but enough has been said about the India-America relationship in media, books, and the rapidly imported mass culture. Can ther…
Brian Herrera's solo show, "I Was the Voice of Democracy" bravely explores the ways we betray our best selves. Caridad Svich's gorgeous plays do everything from confronting our most pressing…
The world has gone dark, and no one will ever watch The Simpsons again. This is a melancholy thought, especially for someone who has been watching The Simpsons his entire life. That caustic …
I wonder what kind of seismic shift would occur in our field if we measured impact beyond percentages of resources and audience members. How can we better value the deep reverberations of ge…
The piece is not only a morality play focusing on issues of vengeance and justice, or a play that weighs the value of one man's life versus the good of the many, but it is also an examinatio…
As time passed, my cynical eye grew more nuanced not only as I began to recognize and remember award names, but also value the work of both winners and other nominees. Still, I couldn't quit…
