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 …
The first thing I noticed when I visited at SPACE on Ryder Farm is the quiet. It's quiet at SPACE on Ryder Farm. You could spend all day writing in the gazebo, and the only sound you'd hear …
A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. The historical moment of the disciplines was the moment when an art of a human body was born, which was directed not …
In college, I found myself not getting cast in many plays, so I decided to produce my own. At the time I was taking a required Directing course, so to fulfill the credit my friend and I prod…
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of th…
These are particularly tough times for live theater; even John Moore says it in a recent post: Live Theater Ranks Among 10 Worst Industries for 2013 (and he was named one of the twelve most …
Somewhere along the way, American higher education picked up the duty of professional preparation. The Jeffersonian ideal of the liberal arts education as an end in itself, an inherent good,…
First off, a huge thank you to everyone who applied to write for our NewCrit initiative. We have been impressed by the quality of applicants from Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, and…
It has been fifteen years, two published versions, five translations, innumerable productions and tours both nationally and internationally, since the first production of Joe Calarco's radic…
The One-Minute Play Festival and Mixed Blood Theatre Present: The 1st Minneapolis One-Minute Play Festival at Mixed Blood Theatre This event will livestream for the open source #NEWPLAY TV p…
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 open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The thir…
"It’s so much not enough. It’s so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life." ― spoken by Prior Walter in Tony Kushner's, Angels in America I read Maria Goya…
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, Februa…
"After Nora, Mrs. Alving had to come," Ibsen says about his own progression from A Doll's House to Ghosts. Though he anticipated the storm of criticism Ghosts would illicit from all but the …
NoPassport and NYU Gallatin present the seventh annual NoPassport theater conference: Dreaming the Americas Staging New Theaters/Challenging Hierarchies A one-day conference exploring the in…
ArtsEmerson will livestream The Shakespearean Jazz Show, part of the The Next Thing (TNT) Festival live on #NEWPLAY TV Saturday, February 23nd at 7:45pm PST/ 9:45pm CST/ 10:45pm EST. …
UNIVERSES and Double Edge Theatre co-facilitated a workshop sharing process as part of ArtsEmerson’s The Next Thing (TNT) Festival on Friday, February 22nd, 2013. This w…
New York City Players and Los Angeles Poverty Department co-facilitated a workshop sharing process as part of ArtsEmerson’s The Next Thing (TNT) Festival on Thursday, Fe…
It's the allowing that art makes possible. We traditionally think that it's the patron who gives the artist an allowance. Yet it's the artist who gives society a large allowance. The artists…
This column, published every 4-6 weeks, examines issues of translation as they relate to the field of theater and its intersections with other public and civic sectors. See previous posts he…
Jeff Becker and Nick Slie from Mondo Bizarro/ArtSpot Productions and Oliver Butler and Paul Thureen from The Debate Society co-facilitated a workshop sharing process as part of A…
The Dramatists Guild of America is excited to announce the third event in the new DG Conservatory series"a Songwriting Workshop with celebrated composer/lyricist/conductor/arranger Jason …
Shop Floor Theatre Company of Flint, Michigan presents: State of Emergency Livestreaming on the opensource #NEWPLAY TV channel on Saturday, February 23 at 4pm PST / 6pm CST / 7pm EST f…
Join HowlRound live from The Next Thing (TNT) Festival in Boston for three process sharing workshops live on #NEWPLAY TV February 20-22 featuring The Debate Society, Double Edge Theatre,Å
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, Februa…