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The modes of universalization that contest those regimes of power most effectively are the ones that simultaneously expose the "inassimilable" as the precondition of a current mode of univer…
USF School of Theatre and Dance is excited to bring you a livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV of a reading of playwright Marcus Gardley's work the rocks are gonna cry out on Monday, February 18, 20…
New Dramatists presents “Over There, Over Here”: A Forum on New Play Development in the United Kingdom. Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, February 19 at 4pm PST (San Franc…
The Past Television of the twentieth century variety required massive amounts of resources and capital investment for producing programming. It was a classic top-down, pyramidal model of pro…
Interim Writers is a Boston-based collective dedicated to fostering and supporting area playwrights. They produce monthly staged readings and host a residency program called The Accomplice. …
Why a New Play Map? Theater holds a mirror up to human existence; audiences see themselves, their stories, and their worlds reflected back to them on stage. And these narratives unfold, impe…
City Council Meeting is a participatory theater event about empathy, democracy and power. Created by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay, and Aaron Landsman, the project combines local government t…
An announcement introducing The Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College went out in December 2011. Soon after an artistic director asked, "How does one become a Citizen of the Comm…
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 seco…
This blog is In Response to Virginia Grise's Interview with Patricia Ione Lloyd, and  continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (L…
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…
This piece continues a partnership between HowlRoundand the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatr…
This post is the thirteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask question…
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 am a college student in a relatively small (but m…
The One-Minute Play Festival and EMP Collective Present: The 1st Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival Livestreaming on the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Sunday, February 10 at 5pm PST (Sa…
Breaking String of Austin, Texas presents the New Russian Drama Festival, featuring: Strike: Two plays by Yury Klavdiev as well as a post-show discussion: “Klavdiev Performances in Rus…
Jim Brown of the Actor's Fund will speak about the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act"its implications for artists, arts businesses and arts not-for-profits as part of  Atl…
Okay: I'm a self-proclaimed arthead with only the feeblest grasp of economics. But after several seasons planning artistic programming and then seeing how many patrons actually show up for i…
This is the second post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here. I want you to take a moment to think about the first moments of your …
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater this spring for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The firs…
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…
It is not enough to demand from the theater mere perceptions, mere images of reality. The theater must arouse our desire to perceive, it must organize the fun of changing reality. Our audien…
Robert Frost famously professed the benefits, when approaching a point of divergence in a journey, of taking the road "less traveled by." Yet: I've found the travels that made all the differ…
We don't look back in order to go back, but rather to better choose what going forward looks like…In this post-election bliss for many of us, it makes sense for us to consider why we value…
When we started HowlRound a couple of years ago we intentionally avoided reviewing plays. We didn't want theater artists to wake up in the morning to a bad review. And two years later, we st…
