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This post is the fifteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
I was twenty-three years old when I applied to grad school. That part matters. I was more than a year past my college graduation, long enough to have a real job and a reasonable-for-New York…
The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz takes as its premise a replaying with variation of the final scene from The Seagull . Nina, an actress, returns to the town where she grew up. She meets K…
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents their next Plays in Progress program with an in-person and online developmental reading of Andrew Kramer's new play Crying for Lion…
"What do you need?" Sarah Bellamy asks the awed group of students from Twin Cities' high schools gathered in a circle on Penumbra's main stage. The stage where children have been born, where…
The central set piece in Ragged Wing Ensemble's Time Sensitive is made of one of the most challenging materials to use in theater. It's heavy. It's messy. It's slippery. You can touch it, bu…
When I entered the New London Theatre just near Covent Garden to see War Horse in November 2011 four years after its world premiere, the Tuesday evening performance was most assuredly sold o…
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde This Wilde quote introduces the script for Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, produced by Walking Sh…
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was wary of attending the theater. LA is an industry town, and if there's one thing I'm not interested in, it's staged screenplays. Don't get me wrong"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…
My hesitation in writing this post is analogous to my skepticism of MFA programs. Both carry the implication that there is some sort of practical path, a series of choices by which one can i…
This piece continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatre (WIT).…
Strange Attractor Theatre present their latest original performance play, Enlightenment on E Floor North , livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm AKDT (Juneau) / 10:30pm…
Dear HowlRound Readers, Conversation Curators, Mappers, and Livestreamers: Be a part of building a new arts economy that will support the creative lives of artists in a dignified and equitab…
At the end of a good play, many people give praise to the playwrights, actors, directors, and technicians who have contributed to the piece as a whole. Few audience members think about the p…
A few years ago, both of us decided to apply to graduate school. Though Annah was living in New York at the time and Whitney in Chicago, we had traveled fairly similar paths: internships at …
It's strange to be writing about Vancouver's theater community right now. The movers come tomorrow and my little family starts a trek to Ottawa, Ontario. Leaving Vancouver is very difficult …
Jeremy Stoller: Can you describe the LMDA community? Vicki Stroich: There's a real mixture. There are academic dramaturgs, who are working at universities and teaching dramaturgy, theater hi…
As a born and bred Vancouverite who's built his entire professional career here (and there aren't too many people like me around, Vancouver being a city of transients), I'm not equipped to a…
New Dramatists in New York City will be livestreaming their Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv o…
"Living in the most visually stunning city in the world makes it hard to create." Or, "No one in the outdoor capital of Canada wants to come inside to sit in a dark black box." Or "Vancouver…
Heading to Andersonville to see The Miss Neo Pageant , a "feminist play for accidental feminists", I was totally preoccupied by an enormous zit that had erupted on my chin. At thirty-five, I…
Elaine: Can you describe Vancouver for our international colleagues? Heidi: Playwright Hiro Kanagawa gave a fantastic talk looking at our colonial history, the technological history, and the…
I feel like we're in a reality moment. In the theater - and in the culture at large. I wonder if the fact that I've been speaking about it a lot lately might might mean that this particular …
I have read countless coming-of-age stories. As a teenager and young adult many of those stories were lifesavers. I still struggled but I didn't feel alone anymore. I'm discovering now a sub…
