Listen, I'm not sure how to say this without sounding ignorant, so, toot toot, all aboard the self-immolation train: soot and spit kind of made me feel like I had autism. I entered the Galvi…
It was a sunny day in May and LA Stage Alliance was hosting LA Stage Day, a gathering of Los Angeles theater folk centered around inspirational presentations, workshops, and breakout session…
Can the Great American Novel become a great American play? When the novel is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , the answer would seemingly be a resounding, "No." All novels resist adaptation to s…
Ever since January of this year, NoPassport theater alliance and press in collaboration with twenty-six playwrights (twenty-four of which contributed plays, two of which contributed an essay…
Standing over a fifteen-foot birdie putt on the last hole of the 2008 US Open, Tiger Woods had to make it. If he made it he'd get into a playoff. If he missed, he was out. "I kept telling my…
Beyond the Capitals, a project of the Center for International Theater Development , aims to create meaningful encounters between new generations of theater animators in Russia and the Unite…
But once the Culture Coin bank opened, things began to change. Now the small companies could purchase things like goods and services in the cultural sector with Culture Coins, instead of cas…
In the Canadian national mythology, the story of the War of 1812 is, as noted Canadian historian and author Pierre Berton once wrote, the story of "the war that Canada won, or to put it more…
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…
"My head was full of misty fumes of doubt." "Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road In 1990, I was organizing union farmworkers in Deland, Florida. I had just graduated with a master's de…
Imagine having a year of rehearsal and the hope of a five-year run. Imagine meeting one to three times a week to explore a classic text, or creating a new play and having months to hone it i…
However, after some thought and post-panel vino, I realized my fatigue isn't racial at all. It's much more about ownership fatigue"a fatigue informed by holding up the conversation around ow…
The mission of the Great Plains Theatre Conference at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska is to enable playwrights and theater artists to share time, energy, and talent in the …
Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents a livestreaming performance of Tori Keenan-Zelt's new work The Egypt Play, or The Misses Blake on a Holiday Jihad . Watch it live o…
We frequently heard people refer to it"often pejoratively"as a "museum city." And perhaps, it seemed to us, the museum-like quality of the place did influence the work being made there"two s…
Help co-create Culture Coin! Dear HowlRound reader: We've made it to the semi-finals in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual National Challenge ! To move forward to the finals we need your help. Cul…
Since the polls closed on election day, the fate of the Republican Party remains front-page news. "Demographics will doom Republican Party," the Chicago Sun-Times blared the day after the el…
What's bubbling up under the sidewalk of the American theater? Shifting demographics. Institutional regional theaters cannot continue to program exclusively for an audience of white, baby bo…
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…
Dramatists Guild of America presents Social Media from the Playwright's Perspective. This event will be live on HowlRound TV on Tuesday, May 21 at 2:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4:30pm CDT (Au…
A. Rey Pamatmat: In the lobby for a production of my play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them I overheard a woman say, "This play would get done everywhere if the main characters weren't Asi…
Note: I participate in the Creative Producers in Training program in the Office of the Arts at Emerson College . The program aims to build a cohort of creative producers through mentorship a…
In his eagerness to cross genres, Byrne is like a much more talented, much less irritating James Franco. Conceptual art is best left to the professionals, but rock is Byrne's beat, and Here …