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I had an opportunity to talk to Lily this morning and I know she shares in this apology with me. I believe so strongly in the work of HowlRound because I long for open and transparent conver…
The Playwrights Foundation's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco presents " Playwrights' Roundtable: Mapping Your Career, Taking Action " which will livestream on the global, peer-p…
What is it about puppets that charm, disarm, and delight? Is it, as Heinrich von Kleist said in his seminal essay "On the Marionette Theater," that puppets "lack [the] self-consciousness" of…
Graduate school was intense. I moved three times in four years. At least twice, someone yelled the n-word at me as I walked to (or near) campus. I was broke. While my friends from college we…
I'm not trying to say that my liberal colleagues aren't in the communities; they are. But I do believe that the grand stages leave audiences as passive observers, and this isn't what a liber…
By creating in New Orleans, I hope to be a charger for the new American theater movement. A movement where regional theater returns to the idea of what theater can be: art designed to serve …
Watch this performance of The Shakespearean Jazz Show livestreaming on the global, peer-produced, opensource HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Thursday, July 18 at 5pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7p…
In the past few years, California Shakespeare Theater , under the direction of Jonathan Moscone, has been moving toward being as much about California as it is about Shakespeare. No more doe…
Midway through orientation week"awash in a sea of new acronyms and small talk"the seventy-some new students of the Yale School of Drama are herded into a theater to hear speeches from the he…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project at …
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…
The more time I spent in Rwanda and Uganda, the more inexpert I became. I didn't know how to negotiate for a good price for chapati in the market. ...I didn't know how to spend long, unstruc…
The Living Room Theatre of Kansas City, MO presents the livestreaming of The Death of Cupid: A Whiskey Musical on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv …
A single review can change everything, and it often does. That's not news to the theater community"even Alec Bladwin acknowledged it in an insightful and straightforward article in The Huffi…
There has been much talk in recent years about the lack of "diversity" in American theater. This four part series is meant to redefine the conversation in a way that will move us past the bu…
Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers present The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours , bringing together the Boston theater community to write, rehearse, and mount an evening of new…
The Rule of St. Benedict, which has guided those in religious life for approximately 1500 years, says: "Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, 'I came as …
I remember halfway through my first term I forced my dramaturgy professor to admit he didn't know my name. There were six of us in the class. As I remember it, later that that same day, a di…
The Latino Theater Alliance/Los Angeles is group comprised of Latino theater artists and professionals based in the Greater Los Angeles area, whose individual and collective voices contribut…
The last time I wrote for HowlRound , in October 2011, I was director of new play development at a theater. Since then, I have turned to the work of solitary writing. I have been in a kind o…
If you are thinking of getting an MFA and are fortunate enough to be accepted, don't go. I write this presuming you have to pay for the degree somehow. I write this also acknowledging that I…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. Th…
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…
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep'em coming"write to me at holler@howlround.com . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, Help! I'm at my wit's end. I just finished grad school …
When you are possessed by a dream, when you are the inhabitant of a dream, you are driven by this, by a kind of heart beating."Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous I dream m…
