The Dramatists Guild of America is thrilled to announce the fourth event in the new Conservatory series: a bookwriting seminar with celebrated librettist, and former Dramatists Guild preside…
We've brought puppeteers from New York, Boston, California, and Chicago to present short works, and featured local companies The Hey Lollies and Private Lives Puppet Theatre. Glass Half Full…
Whether it's the next hot band coming out of SXSW, a promising tech start-up, or the latest fusion cuisine, Austin has a love for creating and consuming the new. Less formal and more liberal…
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…
Because well, here's the thing"Austin isn't a theater town. So why in the world would I recommend you move to Austin, or extended-visit Austin, or not leave Austin? Because Austin is a maker…
The Bottom Line: A theater's community extends further than its weekly payroll list"if your staff or leadership prey on artists using institutional access as cover, you've got a problem, and…
Jody Christopherson: What sparked your interest in "geek" theater? Crystal Skillman : Geek theater, while a movement of its own, is something that is very personal to me. I was made fun of u…
Arizona State University in Tempe's School of Theatre and Film presents the w orld premiere of soot and spit written by Charles Mee and directed by Kim Weild. Watch the livestreaming of the …
I was a theater critic for five years. Then I got better. Okay, that's a cheap shot. The fact is, I'm thankful for my time as the lead theater critic for Seattle Weekly from 1995 to 2000. Fo…
The Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, Tempe presents its third biennial symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking on Friday, April 12 a…
A few months ago we put out a call for Commons Producers to help us track the activities of the fourteen playwright residencies HowlRound is charged with documenting. The response was overwh…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thursday, April 11…
This keynote address was delivered on March 25, 2013 at The Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op at University of Texas-Austin. Watch it here . There've been times in m…
Some thoughts on San Francisco-based Mugwumpin's The Great Big Also. Prophetic movements are part of our marrow as Americans. We are the country of John Winthrop's City upon the Hill, of Sha…
Panglossian Productions will present the second installment in its new Plays in Progress series: a live and on-line developmental reading of Steven Young's new play, The King's Face , hosted…
The NYT Critic Watch project was designed to gives us some numbers about modern theater criticism. We are awash in opinion, in curiosity, in hurt feelings, in hopes for a hit, and in the dua…
I get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much…
So have I got a job for you? You get paid next to nothing, but if you work hard for many years, refine your craft and get lucky, then you will still probably earn less than a first-year asso…
While I was the theater critic for The Denver Post , I never quite understood the malicious glee so many seemed to be taking in the irreversible downward slide of the corporate newspaper ind…
Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays presents a livestreaming panel discussion Charting the Course: New Play Directors in Conversation . This panel will lives…
Asked to consider criticism in the American theater, my mind kept bouncing back to two distinct factors that it seems critics never mention. The fact that makers of the work may not pay cons…
Once, outside a performance, an actor/director/playwright (I'll never tell who) approached me in a kind of passive-aggressive fervor. S/he began asking how I became a critic, what were my qu…
On Wednesday, April 3, there will be two events at Emerson College in Boston involving Suzan-Lori Parks. Both events will be livestreamed on the global, open-source, peer-produced #NEWPLAY T…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thursday, April 4 …
Say you walk out of the theater having seen a show you hated, that you experienced as an assault on your senses, a waste of your time, or both. Who can you tell about it? If you're lucky eno…