The Radar L.A. Festival presents a Professional Symposium convening live on on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, September 26th and Friday…
Connections between the professional theater women of the past, the present, and the future worldwide are germane here. Most people have never heard of names like Rosamond Gilder, Martha Coi…
The Dramatists Guild of America presents the Dramatists Guild Academy Seminar An Evening With the O'Neill which will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network…
Bienvenidos! I would like to welcome you to Café Onda, an online gathering space in partnership with HowlRound that will feature regular content of the Latino/a Theatre Commons . Why a Lati…
We watch the bell, silent and expectant. Her fingers keep brushing it, but it doesn't ring. As in any durational work that turns on failure, there is a Beckettian element: as the artist jump…
HowlRound held a conversation for students and faculty last year at Emerson College to discuss the creation of a theater commons. The conversation, however, quickly turned to how the school'…
Around the Teapot in Los Angeles presents a performance gathering Adventuring Together: Ensembles, Collectives, Laboratories & Networks livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open s…
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, VA presents a reading of David Jacobi's Mai Dang Lao livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on …
From 2008 to the present, playwright Adrienne Kennedy and Egyptian scholar Nadia Maher were in correspondence. This is an edited selection of emails they exchanged while Nadia was working on…
I was hoping to encounter a global story that could be turned into a tremendous play about a greener, smarter global future. But, yet again, my imagination did not match reality. Bangalore, …
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 network at howlr…
The play is set in Nabers' hometown of Houston, just after Hurricane Katrina sent a flood of mostly Black refugees to seek shelter there in 2005. Racial anxieties simmer and bubble, as the c…
The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage present a panel discussion on the presence of race and class disparities in media respon…
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…
ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage , Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma" a conversation with PJ Paparelli, the co-writer and director of columbinus , Betty Shoels, a…
We all want to be makers. And the biggest miscalculation of the not-for-profit arts institution in building its infrastructure is its belief that some people make things and some people just…
Analyzing data would let us give audiences, in other words, what they really want, not what they say they want. It would let us look at people's cravings and aspirations and desires and sele…
One of the hardest tasks for me to perform as a dramaturg is relinquishing my work to an audience. I've known the time was coming; I've been working towards that first read-through for month…
One board chair commented, "We cast the board like you cast a play: diversity of skills, people who get the mission, people who have a relationship with the theater."
The Minnesota Fringe (MN Fringe) Festival is the largest nonjuried festival in the United States where this year an estimated 16,493 people were in attendance. Every applicant pays a non-ref…
There is a growing recognition that the more board members are engaged and exposed to the artistic life of the theater, the more effective they are as board members, and the more able they a…
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 network at howlr…
Why are so few boards taking advantage of the powerful legitimacy of their governance role to provide proactive leadership to their organizations by engaging in the generative work that is a…
O'Rowe's play, which is set in Dublin, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2007, as Ireland, too, was "perching precarious." The Celtic Tiger era, which began in 1994, was both at its height a…
I'd love to hear your thoughts on credibility and how you see that playing a role in your work as artists. For those at larger, established theatres, do your efforts to position yourself to …