There is nothing like an existential crisis to get one popping up with a newsroom like Engine31 . When arts journalists started losing their staff jobs by the bushel load (around fifty perce…
This is the second in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process of s…
Dear esteemed HowlRound readers and theater makers, Just over two years in to publishing HowlRound , we've launched a new and improved website that now features an archive, and a more robust…
Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays presents a livestreaming panel discussion The Playwright as Teacher and Student. This panel will livestream on the peer-p…
This is Dario Fo's 2013 International Theatre Institute's World Theatre Day Message translated from the original Italian version by Mirko Grewing (Milan) and Douglas Howe (New York). This En…
But no, not all practices are built on these foundations. Jobbing in artists, short rehearsals, top-down administration, black history month diversity, chatting with a guest artist on the fi…
It was a cold and familiar shift. This group, when introduced to my six-foot-tall, African American, Ivy League"educated, world-traveled self, had perceived me as one thing. I could see they…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions, in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, many…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions, in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, many…
Emma Rice is quite right to identify music and dance as hallmarks of her aesthetic style because these are the elements that make her work stand out. Through popular music, like the blues in…
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, March 2…
In this digital age, where technology has led to increased globalization and cultural exchange, it is not rare to find theater companies who tour their work abroad. How does this travel impa…
The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance announces the 2013 Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op and will be livestreaming the official commencement cere…
In honor of World Theatre Day, the NYCWTD Coalition presents a reading of the Around-the-Globe Chain Play at the Lark Play Development Center . This reading will livestream on # NEWPLAY TV o…
Join Company One , the Boston Center for the Arts , and some of the smartest artists around talking about gender and race in the new play sector. The XX PlayLab Festival features public read…
A convening of the Latino/a Theater Commons Steering Committee will take place at HowlRound : A Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College, Boston on Friday, March 22, 2013 and will l…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions , in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, man…
This is a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions , in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of multiple paths, man…
With art, ultimately it is about the invitation. How do you invite someone into the work? What is the essential spirit of the invitation? In the end, the invitation may be all you have. The …
This is the second post in a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions , in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of …
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, March 2…
The Dramatists Guild of America presents the next event in their new DG Conservatory series moderated by Tony-winning composer and Guild Council member, Stephen Flaherty. Technology for the …
This is the second post in a regular column exploring the junctions of ensemble theater and audience, my two paths, or rather passions, in life. I'm journeying to the convergence points of m…
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, March …