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A treasure trove of the new work community’s data has been uncovered in this third development week. We released a set of features that displays every relationship between organization…
The documentary film A People's History of 13P will soon be available on our website. It’s intended to benefit future do-it-yourselfers who seek to take their artistic fates into their…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that hap…
Since before our implosion commenced with the closing night of Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl (p#13), the staff and playwrights of 13P have been fully engaged in the company having a kind of …
From his home studio in Brooklyn, New York"songwriter and recording producer Felix McTeigue will conduct this practical, do-it-yourself seminar on how to set up a home recording studio. He w…
Dear Holler readers, Thank you for all your excitement and support for this new column! As you know, every month I will respond to your questions about any and all things personal/profession…
On an afternoon in early August, forty people kicked a soccer ball across a field in central Massachusetts. Led by Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theatre, we kept moving in an improvised swarm…
I just turned se…seven…seventy years old. There"I said it. I got it out. But I am not retired, because I still find every minute of every hour of every day as interesting and as exciting…
Today my guest is Noah Siegler, who is the artistic director of StageNorth in Washburn, Wisconsin. There is such fresh air in this discussion"around the ways StageNorth connects with its nei…
It is well known that rural communities today face many challenges, such as declining and aging populations, youth retention, limited economic and social opportunities, depleting natural res…
The borders between farming and performance art are wonderfully blurry for me. Actually, I think we are better farmers when we approach agriculture through the arts because we can engage our…
About one-hundred years ago, George Pierce Baker, then a professor in the English Department at Harvard University, helped integrate theater production into the university first by creating …
Q: What does a “knowledge commons” look like? A: Here’s an example. Q: How is the content and data produced? A: By the community of users. “Community-sourcing” …
Dedicated to integrating culture and agriculture, the Wormfarm Institute is an evolving laboratory of the arts and ecology and fertile ground for creative work. Planting a seed, cultivating,…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happen…
We know that, in the aggregate, incomes and life expectancies in rural America are significantly lower; infant mortality rates and drug abuse significantly higher. Presently there is insuffi…
Six years ago, I moved to New York City and went about making new friends. As I would get to know people and start swapping stories as new friends do, I realized I would get the same reactio…
I interviewed my friend, the playwright, Catherine Filloux, by email. We email often, in any case, between Berlin, where I am based, and her home in New York. During this exchange,, though, …
Last week, the Theater Communications Group Circle Blog (U.S.) published data from their member theaters entitled Top 11 Most-Produced Playwrights of 2012-13 Season. Commenting on this li…
On a moist Miami weekend in June, I attended CityWrights, a conference spearheaded by City Theatre. Polly Carl, editor of HowlRound, gave the keynote. Long after the weekend was over, her wo…
As we wade through the very compelling data coming at us from the surveys on New York Times Critic Watch a few things have emerged: 1) We need a few more surveys to get to our optimal number…
Work on the New Play Map version 4 has kicked off! And we want you to help us. Seriously. We have completed the first of five "sprints" with the web development cooperative QuiltedÅ
This post is the eighth 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 an…
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow’s recent article, “The Value of Collaboration.” The most rewarding feelings in life are often results of experiences we ha…
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow's recent article, "The Value of Collaboration." For me, there is no better joy than collaboration when it's working well. And if you've work…
