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I remember sitting in a theater history course in college and my professor telling the story of Richard and Cuthbert Burbage tearing down The Theatre with the help of The Lord Chamberlin's M…
With Culture Coin, we aim to put the "equity" back into "sweat equity." Who does the current arts economy serve? If the answer is: "just a few," why don't we, as culture workers, collaborate…
One of my all-time favorite play titles is Christopher Durang's 'dentity Crisis. It's minimalist genius: the personal crisis, the dropped "I." Well, it's 'dentity crisis time in the nonprofi…
Though the integration of theater and performance work in journals like PAJ and TDR has ostensibly addressed the rift between these practices, we are still reluctant to regard performance ar…
Arena Stage presents the third annual Voices of Now Festival of new plays written and created by thirteen youth ensembles from the Washington DC metropolitan area. 175 artists, ages eleven t…
Prior to the opening night performance of Beneatha's Place by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, join CENTERSTAGE from Baltimore for a discussion with playwrights on "Expanding the African …
A Conversation With Bartlett Sher co - hosted by Dramatists Guild of America and Harvardwood will livestream on HowlRound TV on Thursday, May 16 at 3:30pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30pm CDT (Aus…
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…
I have spent my professional life in intersections of the commercial and not-for-profit theater. I started work in the mid-seventies when the not-for-profit theater and the commercial theate…
Got issues? Of course you do. Keep'em coming"write to me at holler@howlround.com . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, I need some help. I am a theater maker running a small …
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…
What's complicated…is the underlying assumption about the role of theater in society"that theater is an art form that can affect people's lives. Michael says he considers Cornerstone to be…
Tennessee Rep in Nashville presents the Ingram New Works Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV at Saturday, May 11 through Tuesday, May 14. The Ingram New Works Project was created by Tenne…
Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota presents the annual Young Playwrights Festival livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, May 11. This event is the culmination of Florida Studio Theatre's…
Like most critics I'm sure, I think of myself as open-minded; in my more prideful moments, I even call myself a champion of the little-known. But one recent show, Theatre Rhino's A Lady and …
I was in search of a place where I would be surrounded by nurturing and supportive women where together we could create and share our stories free of fear and judgement. When I could not fin…
Ah, but once that inner censor/critic gets going, it can be pretty hard to shut him down. And that's when being a playwright feels the loneliest. Because once that dragon of insecurity (as 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…
The women write, they write ferociously, they write what they're feeling"they're doing their part. And through us, they do get a chance to submit to festivals, they stay on top of what's goi…
The Wild Plan was founded in the summer of 2011 by Eric Powell Holm and myself. From the very beginning, when Eric and I set out to devise our next round of projects, we often conceptualized…
I'm currently less than a week away from one of the biggest opportunities of my career as a young actor. As a recent graduate from one of the top MFA programs in our country, I'm now prepari…
Participation is the core of social media. Individuals share, like, pin, drop hashtags and handles, and otherwise create virtual word-of-mouth. As theaters like New Paradise Laboratories, Ne…
"How many of you have ever used the n-word?" asked Shá Cage at the informal talkback after her show to which a few people raised their hands. "How many of you have never used the n-word?"…
What do Mike Daisey, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Palin have in common? Each has bent history's facts to serve their dramatic needs. For that matter, nearly every playwright"and politician"does. …
