Join us this Thursday, December 13th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion abo…
1. Safe Pop It is said that the theater space is one of danger. But is it danger of content, form, or both? There are plenty of theater pieces that court no sense of danger whatsoever in eit…
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…
Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: PearlDamour's How to Build a Forest, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, andÅ
New York's LAByrinth Theater Company announces a new Stephen Adly Guirgis play. My pulse goes jumpy. It's a curious thrill in the oh-so-appropriate American theater, this combo of playwright…
Breaking String Theater of Austin, Texas proudly presents Vodka, Fucking and Television by Russian playwright Maksym Kurochkin, Directed by Liz Fisher, Translated by John J. Hanlon …
Join us this Thursday, December 6th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion abou…
Join The Playwrights’ Center Associate Producer Hayley Finn, Many Voices Program Coordinator Christina Ham, and past Many Voices fellows at the Center for an information session about …
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 piece marks the first in a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in…
I don't believe in doing anything half-assed. When I produce, direct, or appear in a production I want it to be the best it can be. So when I decided to produce an incredibly large musical l…
When I was asked to interview President Lee Pelton for HowlRound‘s Emerson College week my mind jumped from possible question to possible question. My peers urged me to ask a myriad of…
Sitting down with Mr. Benny Ambush to talk about his work with Emerson Stage, I was struck by the sense of showmanship that blends into his every motion. Mr. Ambush has been a prolific contr…
The summer before I started applying for colleges, I was visiting one of my close friends who lived on the Jersey Shore before it was time to head back to school. The night before I left, he…
On the closing night of Project 2: Tomorrow and All Days After, I noticed the flashing blue lights of a cop car outside of my friend’s apartment, which was serving as our performance s…
The National New Play Network’s (NNPN’s) National Showcase of New Plays will take place at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. Thursday November 29-Sunday December 2nd. Th…
When I arrived at Emerson College as a theater student, I expected to find an existing project that I could be passionate about. Instead the inverse happened. The school became a magnetic fo…
Join us this Thursday late night for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 11pm EST / 10pm CST / 9pm MST / 8pm PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater cultu…
When the Center for Theater Commons first landed at Emerson College, few students knew exactly how to react. In April, the Commons dedicated a whole week on HowlRound to the venture at Emers…
This post is the tenth 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 questions and…
Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: PearlDamour’s How to Build a Forest, Punchdrunk’s Sleep N…
As I was waiting for my train home to Philly for the Thanksgiving holiday, this young man with a suitcase stood in front of the sixty or so of us, announcing that he needed money for a bus h…
Last summer David Dower went to PlayPenn and got a big reaction after he mentioned that new play funding and resources has begun to shift away from playwrights and towards companies. I wasn'…
As part of the “DuoLogue” series at the Dramatists Guild of America, playwrights Itamar Moses and Christopher Shinn will discuss what it means to be a playwright in the U.S. at t…
Something profound happened on the first Tuesday in November, something I'm still trying to digest fully. To my mind the election results represent a victory of love over hate, of human dign…