"You might leave feeling sweaty, manhandled, or in need of a shower""not necessarily encouraging words to hear from an MC, but certainly intriguing. 7 Minutes in Heaven is a reoccurring thea…
Emerging from the One Theatre World conference on plays for young audiences, this past May, well-blended with the International Children's Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, life was pretty wondro…
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents the Art and Survival Convening livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Saturda…
Giver of Light is a new opera. It is also a liberal adaptation of the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. It is set in a landscape that is a plastic and suburban generalization from …
To date I've had fifty-four productions of my full length plays. But I've had nearly twenty-five productions that were planned and never happened. Some of these shows were supposed to happen…
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…
I hadn't planned to self-dramaturg my entire collection of work. I certainly hadn't planned for the process to deeply impact the way I think about my writing going forward. But this is what …
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…
Tasked with creating the text and structure of the piece, I knew only that I was writing for a solo actor and a small company of dancers. … I quickly settled on Irma as our lead player. Se…
My sister and I are sitting in the Metreon movie complex in downtown San Francisco and the lights have just lowered to start the latest Bond movie, Skyfall . I'm there for, let's be honest, …
This is a regular column featuring musings, observations, and strategies from the frontline of cultural theater-making in the 21st century. See the full column here . It's been two weeks sin…
"New York is the capital of no known foreign country," Saul Bellow once said, a view that New Yorkers might hold as deeply as people in the rest of the United States, but for us it's a reaso…
The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company p resent The First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV chan…
Longform improv is weird. Most audiences need a primer on what's happening before they fully absorb what the show is attempting to do"partially because the show is discovering what it is att…
The KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presents Story Slam livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Sunday, July 28 at 5pm PDT (Vancouver…
Our culture often has a negative view of the MFA degree. With no guaranteed return on investment and a high cost, many see it as a waste of time and money. One can write, act, direct, or dra…
Ghosts, the Ultimate Immigrants: Asian Ghosts in American Theater This symposium at Bay Area Playwrights Festival produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on th…
As I look back on the twenty-one years I've been with Mu Performing Arts (originally known as Theater Mu), and face the reality that I am soon to become the dearly departed (so to speak), th…
This symposium produced by the Playwrights Foundation , San Francisco will livestream on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Friday, July 26 at 2pm PDT (Sa…
Jacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright of growing renown"a 2012 Theater Communications Group Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena. In The Ham…
When I decided to apply to an MFA program it was 2006. I was living in NYC, working as a paralegal, and feeding a budding sneaker addiction. Even though I sat in a cubical checking briefs, I…
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…
And so, how do we to make art in a world that seems obsessed with surface"a surface that is, technologically, and, ironically, about to disappear? The answer for theater, I believe, lies in …
I knew I wanted to create theater, but what the hell did that even mean? There was something inside of me that was drawn to exploring a question or thought theatrically, but I wasn't really …
(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…