Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three pa…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Tlaloc Rivas continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in this three part series as she t…
Riffing off the “demand-side” concept that Cheryl Ikemiya talks about in the recent David Dower Friday Phone Call, we at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community…
This is local government filtered through the lens of art. Why is that a good thing? We hope seeing governance as a performance of power, rather than an application of it, can be liberating.…
Austin’s Hidden Room Theatre, Brisbane, Australia’s Anywhere Festival in partnership with #NEWPLAY TV invite you to enjoy a backstage sneak peek of the very first transatlantic r…
Do you read reviews? Sure you read the one that everyone posts on your Facebook wall with “congratulations!” next to it. And you know you’re not supposed to read any …
I am the founder and producing artistic director of Live Girls! Theater, a company that produces and develops new work by women in Seattle. Since most of my adult life has centered around bu…
I somehow had the good fortune to spend time on the phone with Cheryl Ikemiya, Senior Program Officer for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in the middle of a very busy seaso…
Braden Abraham, Associate Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory talks to me as part of the Seattle City Series this week. Contributors have been talking about the Writers’ Group there…
The recent census data reveals that Seattle is one of the "whitest big cities" in the country. Sixty-six percent of the people who completed the census here specified they were White. Intere…
Vince: When did you start writing plays in Seattle? Yussef: I began focusing on playwriting when I stopped all thoughts of becoming an actor"and later, a filmmaker (I made a short film in Se…
I came to Seattle in September 2005. Invited to ski in Leavenworth, WA, a lovely town in the foothills of the Cascades two hours from Seattle, I was struck by how perfect the venue was fo…
If you missed today’s live broadcast of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman speaking from Atlanta, Georgia, you can view it here as well as in the #NEWPLAY TV vide…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Liz Engelman continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
Dear Seattle, I confess. I love you. Okay? I do, I love you. My love is bald-faced and blatant. Unabashed, unashamed. You might think it's reckless of me to admit this, but when it comes to …
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the #newplay hashtag. We'll kick off the discussion on Tuesday, May 8 from 12pm-1pm PDT /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT / 3pm-4pm …
Live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info, the Dramatists Guild of America will host a panel discussion entitled: “Contracts 101: E-Publishing” on Tuesday, May 8 at 2:30pm PDT / 3:30…
It was with a healthy dose of trepidation that my wife, young daughter and I moved to Seattle in 2005. Actually it wasn't a move, but a return: Northwest natives, we'd spent the previous fou…
Atlanta-based Alternate ROOTS will host a community conversation with Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during his first visit to the state. The event i…
When Charles Mee writes plays, he draws heavily from existing literature, critical theory and other plays, particularly those of Ancient Greece. This interview was conducted related to the U…
This week I talk with director Pam MacKinnon. She’s just been nominated for a Tony for her work on Clybourne Park and I am really grateful she made the time to talk to me anyway. We sp…
I've been leading post-show discussions at Steppenwolf Theatre for five years. When I started, it was a great way to insinuate myself into the Steppenwolf environment, and to try to be a reg…
Live on #NEWPLAY TV, The Hybrid Art Summit 2012 is a two-day event during the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas exploring cross-disciplinary creative practice and its relevance to cont…
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