Victory Gardens Theater and League of Chicago Theatres host a town hall discussion entitled “Playing Race” livestreaming on the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Thursday,…
Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland presents Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology.…
I wrote a play called And Then Came Tango. A play inspired by true events. A play about penguins, love, family, and youth activism. A play that seeks to expand and deepen representation in 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, Ja…
In the world of theater for young audiences, the ground is shifting under our feet: unstable and unfamiliar, far less funding, and the zeitgeist is way different than just a few years ago. A…
Rabbi Zusya of Tarnopol told his disciples, "In the world to come, they will not ask me, 'Why weren't you Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why weren't you Zusya?'" I’m an old dramaturg, a Ya…
Last November, playwright Eliza Bent had a reading of her play The Hotel Colors at the Bushwick Starr. She felt good about the reading. She felt good about the play. And afterward, when she …
This is the first post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. A Double Dog Dare Fresh off the boat from Raleigh, NC with no job prospects and the grand implosi…
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, Ja…
The Dramatists Guild, in association with Harvardwood, is pleased to present the first DG Academy event of 2013. This event will livestream for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project on T…
After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I felt like I'd felt after 9/11: grief stricken, traumatized and voiceless. In all the categories I fall in: woman, mother, playwright, h…
When preparing a pot of gumbo, one must start with the roux. Every good Louisianan knows this. The roux is the bone marrow that binds this body of savory goodness together. The rubber glue t…
Did you see me? Did you see how high I held my head? Did you see how I swayed back and forth with the wind? "Carmen Demourelle This refrain weaves in and out of a new work-in-progress perfor…
Carol Bebelle is a native New Orleanian and a proud product of the New Orleans Public School System. She has more than twenty years experience in the public sector as an administrator and pl…
A discussion on queer performance in New Orleans requires one understanding: "We are not talking about who you fuck," as Senora Grayson stated. Grayson along with everyone interviewed for th…
More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hate…
The One-Minute Play Festival and Passage Theatre present: The 3rd Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV Sunday, January 20 at 4pm PST (San Francisco) …
First, a personal story: Last year in March I was in tech for Kiss Kiss Julie, ArtSpot Productions latest devised work for which I provided text, outdoors at the Joan Mitchell Center on Bayo…
We have had a hell of a wild year at Southern Rep Theatre: In January 2012 we lost our venue when our lease wasn't renewed after nineteen years, our budget cuts caused by the loss of venue p…
It's hard to pin down why over twenty young theatrical ensembles have formed in New Orleans since 2006, still stand, and are growing when there is exceptionally little money, venue, educatio…
Tune in this Friday through Sunday to get a glimpse of the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ MicroFest USA: New Orleans, live on #NEWPLAY TV! Since Katrina, much has happened in New Orl…
See these children are like clay in our hands / we be the masters of this ceremony / the crafters and creators / and every time we step in that classroom you best believe Their Eyes are Watc…
The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* In tandem with this week’s New O…
Warning: the theories you are about to read are not scientific. Not even close. They are opinions that I've developed over several decades of making and attending theater in New Orleans. Occ…
The costume making skills of the average New Orleanian are astonishing. As I write, thousands of people in our fair city are busy sewing, beading, bedazzling and thrift store hunting. Today …