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As part of Harlem Week here on HowlRound I am speaking to a number of producing artists in the neighborhood. Here’s a conversation with yet another bundle of bright Harlem energy, J.J.…
Today I talked with three of the producers of Harlem9, a collaborative producing organization working in Harlem: Sandra A. Daley-Sharif, Bryan E. Glover, and Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly. They a…
As I walk down Striver's Row, at 139th between Adam Clayton Powell and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard, gazing upon the architecture of what is hailed as some of the most valuable real estate in…
Actor-Producer Bridgit Antoinette Evans in conversation with Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem. "You need to audition for this. It's a great play.
my place when i need my fix my deep shot my theatrical hit an artistic uplift i know where to go to find it there’s this space this place where wide, spiritually high people who stay f…
As I prepare my play for a workshop production this summer in Harlem, three memories from the village that blossomed Malcolm, Zora, James Baldwin, Immortal Technique and so many others perva…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Radha Blank continues this series. What makes an Artistic Home? For m…
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week on HowlRound is dedica…
My first few days visiting New York City, I believed I was pre-destined for Harlem. The first New Yorkers to be nice to me were Harlemites. This was years ago. Pre-Starbucks. I went into a s…
Harlem is a neighborhood that has historically been a pressure cooker for the creation of dynamic arts exploring the black experience in America. It was the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissa…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where these …
As folks are gathering in Boston this weekend for the annual TCG Conference, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with the indefatigable Laurie Baskin, TCG’s Director of Gover…
Jeremy: Kwame and Chay, though you both have a long and deep history as playwrights and directors in this country (and others), you've recently stepped into artistic director roles at Center…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Teresa Eyring continues this series. What makes an artistic home? "I …
Catch the Wall‘s workshop will be presented June 21 and 22 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. On Friday, June 22 it will be broadcast live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info…
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay" This week’s Howl topic is a…
I wonder if reading alone at my desk"or in recent years, on my Kindle while riding the train"is the best way to evaluate an unsolicited play and then decide whether it's right for the compan…
Keynote address delivered June 15, 2012 in Miami at CityWrights: a Professional Weekend for Playwrights. We come to painting, to poetry, to the stage, hoping to revive the soul. And any arti…
This post is the fifth 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…
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere"so the song goes"but how can you even begin to "make it" as a playwright in New York when finding a platform for your work is often cost pro…
Two recent distressing experiences compel me shout from the rooftops to producing companies and directors " "Take your foot off the gas!" But since shouting from the rooftops would probably …
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where these …
I used to work at a school where there were no tests, no classes, and all of the rules were decided by the students in democratic meetings. People would gape in disbelief, ask all sorts of q…
OK, guys. We got a little wild here. I wanted to talk to people involved with the Foundry’s This Is How We Do It event which we streamed some weeks back. So it was going to be five …
Derek Goldman’s welcome remarks for Georgetown University's International Convening on Global Performance, Civic Imagination, and Cultural Diplomacy delivered Thursday, June 14, 2012. …
