Is it true that only particular kinds of plays can be popular enough to fill big houses like the Guthrie? Are we forced to focus on “what sells”? Are we serving humanity or are w…
1 Content. The industry moniker for stories, which are now fed, like fodder shoveled into a voracious human pipeline, disappearing"almost as soon as they are created"into a global tract more…
This post is the second column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwrighting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions …
For the last three years I have participated in that sacrificial rite of passage that so many theater artists have undertaken (and so many more theater artists have questioned): an MFA progr…
The discussion around the announced season at The Guthrie, and Polly’s powerful, and powerfully personal, response to it have put me in mind of the richness and vibrancy of the America…
Streaming live on #NEWPLAY TV on newplaytv.info from the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas is “Chewing the Fat: Delicious Conversations” on Friday and Saturday, April 27 and A…
One of the touchstone points of discussion to emerge in the wake of the publication of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play was that of transparency between artist…
Last week we wrapped up the third of four total sprints devoted to building version 3.0 of the New Play Map. Find the first two updates here and here. Our goals for the week were: To complet…
I've always said that the American musical hasn't meant much to me. I don't really connect to most of those stories told through singing and dancing. Then I saw a workshop performance of the…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Faye Price continues this series. What makes an artistic home? Ideall…
Whether it's a black box theater or the form-fillable fields of a grant application, queer performance doesn't always fit neatly into a box. When performing artist and curator Kolmel WithLov…
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the “#newplay” tag. Tomorrow we’ll take Rebecca Novick’s article “Please, Don’t Start …
On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook's production of…
On February 26, 2012 the life of a young son, friend, student, and football player was taken away in Sanford, Florida. We now know him as Trayvon Martin. On that same day a criminal justice …
As we're beginning to shape the language and vision for the new Center for Theater Commons at Emerson College, we're thinking a lot about what we do and how we deliver it. Every platform we'…
I think one of the things an artist looks for is like-minded people who get them. Not necessarily agree on everything (now that can get kind of boring) but people who have an understanding o…
Check out this short video about crowdsourcing from Swift Community. The long definition of crowdsourcing is ”when a company takes a job that was once performed by employees and out…
To continue the focus this week on ArtsEmerson, the Commons, and the College, I have the sheer pleasure of talking with Anne Bogart. There is so much here we could have talked for hours. Suc…
Ten years ago we connected in a moment of mutual frustration at a TCG gathering in Portland, Oregon, called New Works, New Ways. We recognized instantly in our feeling on the outside of that…
I've joked for years that a nail in the coffin of a professional directing career is to teach. As more of us join the rank of the "teaching-professionals," or "working-professionals who teac…
 As some of you may know, The Foundry Theatre frequently hosts different sorts of public events (separate from our productions) where artists might find meaningful exchange with people ou…
What makes an artistic home? An artistic home is established when a group of people collaborate together over a long period of time in order to reach a common artistic goal. It is also ident…
In December of last year, RareWorks Theatre Company, a student-run organization at Emerson College, put together a workshop of a brand spanking new musical written by Ryan Scott Oliver and B…
We are really excited to be heading to Emerson with Polly Carl and David Dower to continue the work we began in 2009 on the American Voices New Play Institute through the creation of the Cen…
This week on HowlRound.com we’re talking about the move of several of the American Voices New Play Institute’s programs and staff from Arena Stage in Washington, DC to the newly …