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In March, HowlRound hosted the first cohort meeting for the Mellon Foundation's playwright residencies . While we had folks in Boston, we decided to ask some of them just how their particula…
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…
This focus on the business of running institutional theaters, and the attendant administrative impulses towards standardization and optimization, tend to flatten the diversity of structures …
We always remember "where we were" when tragic news is delivered. When the two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15th, I was at a play. I was at Shakespeare's Love…
This post is the fourteenth column 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 and…
I open with two examples"let's call them "behind-the-scenes snapshots" for dramatic purposes"from the devising frontlines of dog & pony dc, the ensemble company I co-lead. Shortly before…
Here is grand spectacle on a limited budget, a few seconds of gravity-defying joy tempered by the moment of terror experienced as the characters fall. It is everything that is wonderful abou…
One of my strongest motivators for choosing theater was my heartfelt belief that the theater business was one in which your gender, look, sexual preference, ethnicity, religion, and politica…
"A gorgeous, great play. American theater at its most engaging." Could a producer invent a more perfect pull-quote?...Funny thing is, the line...comes from a review of another production. An…
Here's the thing"theater should lead culture, not follow it. If the theater we are making today solely reflects society, then we're failing it. We are not a mirror, we are a lens. We see wha…
South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California presents a new addition to the 16th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival : a playwrights' panel delving into the question "Why this play, now?"…
…in the post-performance talkback I attended, an audience member asked actor Jonathan Majors if he would take off his shirt again. This audience member viewed the actor's body, like his ch…
Lauren Gunderson: Do you think about gender parity when writing a new play? Lydia Diamond: I don't really. I take it for granted that I have a sort of built-in consciousness around gender, b…
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…
This latest push for parity for female writers (and directors, designers, choreographers, and actors for that matte) began for me in 2001 with Susan Jonas and the NYSCA study . I remember ho…
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 Thursd…
Brad : Gender parity and other kinds of diversity issues seem to be so front - burner right now, but it's not like people haven't been thinking and talking and writing about this for a long …
The day after Christmas, I sat in our organization's closed offices with Cindy Im, Theatre Bay Area's development manager, to go over some upcoming grant proposals. The rest of the staff was…
A couple of months ago we announced that we would add criticism to the HowlRound site. The idea met with both great enthusiasm and deep skepticism. We expected this. When we originally discu…
You can't be in Austin very long without hearing someone wax lyrical about the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you're not familiar with that legendary venue, just know that the grandiose na…
I'm going to take the precarious position that, as designers, what we put on stage in front of an audience should never be an apology. Why should lack of resources become an excuse for shodd…
I had been dreaming about Austin long before I met it. Austin was the Valentine you wish was in your class. The cool one, lean, long, with the shiny eyes, copper brown skin, silver smile, ra…
We're lucky to live in Austin. We're lucky to live in a community that's creative and hard working and confident and intelligent. All this new work and all these open minds. We're lucky to l…
ArtsEmerson , Boston is pleased to invite online viewers to watch a special Viewpoint Workshop led by SITI Company Member Leon Ingulsrud and that will include Emerson College students. You c…
It is then the honorable responsibility of those theater makers most concerned with the cultural impact of digital media on our lives to live in the belly of the beast, to hammer out what th…
