I had offered to host Caridad Svich's Gun Control Theatre Action in New York City after the project"which coincided with the March on Washington for Gun Control"had successfully concluded in…
No one prepares you for how sad life gets. People you love start dying like crazy. Better to be miserable from the word go. Arm yourself for sorrow. This is something Julie Harris would have…
I don't know how to begin this, because my uncle is sick. He's fighting cancer and it's a very big uphill battle. Yesterday I sent him one of my funny monologues in hopes of making him laugh…
This summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival . I plan to use these dispatches to share…
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…
This blog series focuses on personal perspectives from a select group of practitioners on theater and social change, the nature of artistic efficacy, and on past and ongoing gun control thea…
This three-part series chronicles the musings of a twenty-something college grad making theater in London, trying to figure out what to bring home. I. Our writer is flying in from America. H…
And so Shakespeare & Company has decided to present the history cycle, and Artistic Director Tony Simotes is jocund in announcing the decision. When a theater company chooses its season,…
Three works of the Lisbon-based filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes were shown at the MIT List Center throughout May and June. All three are worth something, but I want to concentrate here on one pie…
(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
Atlanta can get hot this time of year, but for the past three summers, dancers in the Atlanta-based company gloATL have hit the streets and public spaces of the city for "Liquid Culture," a …
Dramatists Guild of America presents the 2nd Annual National Conference in Chicago "Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future" livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound…
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 project at howlr…
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 . If you have an…
What is it to direct a play? Is it archaeology: digging and digging until you find the truth of a script? Is it sculpture: shaping performance and design until it conforms to the images in y…
I was recently looking for a TYA play to produce for the 2013 Tennessee Theatre Association Theatre for Youth Festival when I realized that I was a gatekeeper. I was rereading The Stones by …
What I Want I want an Arab American theater movement. I want an Arab American theater movement that is vibrant and visible and daring and unafraid of its own power. I want an Arab American c…
We often consider technology an imposition on both our craft and our business: social media putting pressure on everything from marketing to performance, for example, or IT budgets draining …
This summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival. I plan to use these dispatches to share …
This is the fourth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process of s…
How should theater artists be trained? Recently this question seems to have been interpreted primarily as a question about the viability of MFAs and the ethical questions surrounding MFA fin…
(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
Playwright Carlos Murillo says that his 2005 play Dark Play, or Stories for Boys , now in a Do It Live! production, takes place "now," but I'd place it more in 1997. The play is steeped in t…
At the Playwright's Festival of new student work in Roanoke, VA last summer, guest responder Robert Ross Parker (Co-artistic Director of Vampire Cowboy Theatre) gave the MFA playwriting stud…
TheatreWorks' New Works Festival in Silicon Valley, CA presents a livestreaming panel discussion with Charles Vincent Burwell, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, Sharon Kenny, Laura Marks, J…