The Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists has launched some exciting voices over its sixty"three years of existence. I talked to the three current fellows about their path to this opportunit…
The Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists has launched some exciting voices over its sixty"three years of existence. I talked to the three current fellows about their path to this opportunit…
A Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights is a regular column by Todd London. It is part of an ongoing series of tributes to contemporary playwrights. Mostly begun as speeches at New …
@jfdubiner Absolutely. ur roles become clearer, your various “missions” (ugh) too! I have to step back when I write, but it informs #newplay — Peter Marks (@petermarksdrama…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Pearl Cleage continues this series. What makes an artistic home? …
Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks (@petermarksdrama)Â will be co-hosting the Howl this week on Twitter using #newplay. This week we will continue the conversation from last week a…
It's a particularly frigid night in New York City. I'm sitting in a sparsely furnished apartment in the midst of a plethora of papers, calendars and various deadlines that demand my attentio…
“In order to live in the world I had to live in the community.” Dr. Marta Vega I got off the subway at 116th street, picked up a green tea, checked my afro in the church mirror a…
The #NEWPLAY-AHZ are back with their latest video on crowdsourcing and collaboration. If you have a video you would like to add just go to newplay.us and find the “submit” button…
As part of our "Critics' Week" series on HowlRound, I spoke to Washington Post Theater Critic Peter Marks, also known on Twitter as @petermarksdrama. Peter's been a very lively and active co…
New York Times Critic Watch is a research project designed to analyse the tone, temper, and trends in theater reviews of new work from the field's top cultural print outlet during one calend…
Growing up on the west coast, the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville always felt a million miles away. Somewhere beyond the horizon in the land of fried chicken and American hor…
A few months ago I wrote an article for HowlRound about the series of Theater Salons I have been involved in organizing for the past handful of years. In that article I noted that the next s…
As meaningful coverage of the performing arts dwindles in newspapers across the country, industry experts come together to envision new possibilities for the future of arts criticism. Part i…
Jamie Gahlon asked arts journalist Chloe Veltman to answer some questions about criticism. She kindly obliged. What is the state of arts criticism today, as compared to a decade ago? There i…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Diane Ragsdale continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An…
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day, we will be discussing the idea of “A Generation Without Borders” for The Weekly Howl, our weekly conversation on Twitter. C…
Growing up in New York, I was privileged to see my hometown represented, mythologized and eulogized in movies, plays and TV shows on a regular basis. As a child, I imagined everyone had this…
So a playwright walks into a bar in Antarctica (usually Gallagher's, the largest of the three bars at McMurdo Station) and has this conversation over and over: A: What do you do back home? B…
Dramatists Guild’s DuoLogue with Michael Weller and Richard Nelson will livestream on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Tuesday, March 27 at 2:30pm-4pm (Los Angeles) / 4:30pm-6pm (Ch…
Two weeks ago I did a Google search on down coats. The sunny day after my virtual search, I found a cute red down coat on sale in a downtown shop and bought it. Great, good for you, you'd sa…
As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the third of four panel discussions webcast live on #NEWPLAY TV will kick off on Sunday,…
Check out what's happening in the #newplay world: Newplay.us is a site driven by the #newplay community on Twitter. People from all around post opportunities and news from the #newplay secto…
Reposting a comment from Polly Carl’s What's Done Cannot be Undone: Lies in the Theater and Some Thoughts on Mike Daisey I have been sitting this one out because I haven’t fou…
Josh Kornbluth and I have made a bunch of pieces together over the past fifteen plus years. He's created 10 monologues and made four films based on them"all of them autobiographical. I wante…