Today, dear listener, I have both a treat and a challenge for you. My guest is Julianne Brienza, co-founder and Executive Director of the Capital Fringe in Washington, DC. That’s the t…
The United States' most visited city, Orlando, Florida, is the destination of nearly fifty-five million tourists annually. [1] A city littered with hotels, restaurants, dinner shows, mega-ma…
Every year, under a combination of masochism and duress, I submit banished? productions' application to the Capital Fringe. This application will fall somewhere in the middle of a moun…
The road from artistic concept to actual fruition is a long, hard, and potentially expensive one. How many of us have been awakened from a dream to jot down on a piece of paper next to the b…
When I'm asked about the benefits of writing/producing at Capital Fringe, I fall into answers so familiar they seem cliché: It's helped sharpen my style. It's a perfect crash course in self…
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week we’re talking about Fringe Festiv…
Against all odds, adversity created an ideal setting for Fringe. GENESIS STORY In 2007, I was a young whippersnapper plunging into St Louis from my semi-cloistered undergraduate life. Eyes b…
Seems you can't swing a dead cat or any other metaphorical animal these days without knocking into a ten-minute play. How the devil did this happen? Isn't a play supposed to be at least long…
Holler is a monthly advice column for theater artists trying to keep it all together. Email holler@howlround.com with your questions, life-changing or trivial, professional or perso…
Theater is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theater can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. - Augusto Boal, Theater of t…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project has posted a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramat…
Does it ever happen to you that you learn a new word or meet a new person and suddenly that person or word is everywhere? This happens to me all the time"I'm sure it does to you, too. Recent…
This call is with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, of rainpan 43. We’re focused on The Elephant Room, a piece they created with Steve Cuiffo that Paul Lazar is directing. It opens this w…
SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN is a process of painting and drawing on space with choreographic gestures. It happens in public space so the performance is designed to collide with daily life. In this w…
There's nothing like seeing your words projected above the stage while hearing them spoken in a foreign language by the actors below. I first experienced this phenomenon when my contemporary…
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwrighting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of the next …
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week's topic of discussion will be determine…
Dramaturgy is, among other things, the subtle art of mediating between the discoveries of theatrical practice and the provocations of dramatic theory. Working in whatever modes are appropria…
At John Jay College of Criminal Justice there is no theater major; most students plan public service careers in social work, forensic sciences, law enforcement, public administration, or law…
This post is the seventh 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 a…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramati…
Why? That has been the most oft-asked question I've received in the twenty-two years since Plowshares Theatre Company was founded. Why in Detroit? You can do it so much easier and earn more …
The Network of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Detroit. Although Detroit's community is fraught with limited resources and its socio-economic narrative dominated by devastation, th…
Today I talk with Richard Newman, co-director with Liza Bielby of The Hinterlands Ensemble in Detroit. One of the things I love about this series is how it gives a mic to different ideas, ae…
Mark: Tell me about how you came to live in Detroit? Shea: In the early 1970s I was part of something called the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, whic…