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I think it's very social. If you embrace it, it will take you out of your selfishness."Mac Wellman on theater When I had just left college and moved back to New York, I had the great fortune…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Erik Ehn continues this series. What makes an artistic home? A bed, a…
For better or worse I have always had a passion for justice. This was not a lip service passion, it was one I tried to live out. I intended to graduate from college and change the world, to …
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Join arts researcher Alan Brown and project director Clayton Lord as they discuss Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, a new book that examines the ways theater artists…
You mustn't take theater seriously. You must do it seriously."Jan Grossman (1925"1993), Czech dramaturg and director and frequent Havel collaborator I think theater should always be somewhat…
This post is the second column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwrighting. Find the first column here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions and sha…
As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the second of four panel discussions webcast live on #NEWPLAY TV will kick off on …
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 se…
Kwame Kwei-Armah is the relatively new Artistic Director at Center Stage in Baltimore. He's a playwright and an actor. We talk about the challenges of being a playwright and an Artistic Dire…
It was fun when off-off Broadway was just starting…when I lost all of those playwrights or when we all went wandering away, they stayed with me and just increased and added some of the oth…
Are you on the Map? The New Play Map is a project that seeks to change the mental map we have of the theater field. Community-generated and designed, open-access and open-source, it…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home.
I've started to worry that we are making too much theater without attending to the notion that it's a collaborative art form. For anyone who knows me, they know I talk a lot about Lynette, m…
Join the HowlRound team for our Weekly Howl on Twitter! This week we are discussing “Bound By Broadway: The State of the American Musical” by Ryan Bogner. This Twitter convers…
The Dramatists Guild is proud to present two of the most respected and honored lyricists in musical theater, Sheldon Harnick and Lynn Ahrens, sitting down to discuss the ups and downs of bei…
It is no secret that Broadway is the driving engine behind the development of new musical theater, largely because it's one of the only ways a musical can be profitable. When musicals succee…
The Student Playwrights Project (SPP)Â is the education component of Arena Stage’s commitment to new American voices. This year, the annual Ten-Minute Play Competition receive…
Recently, I told a well-respected artistic leader in the theater community about the MFA graduate program I am currently enrolled in – Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communitie…
Today, in keeping with our "deep dive" into the Intrinsic Impact Study this week, I talk with Fran Kumin, Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative at the Pew Center for Arts & Her…
As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the first of four panel discussions webcast live on #NEWPLAY TV kicks off on Saturday, M…
This interview is adapted from the version that appears in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art.  This book includes the final report from research firm WolfBrown …
The Riverrun Theatre Company of Madison, Indiana presents Seeing Red by David J. Loehr “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream…&…
This essay is adapted from the version that appears in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. This book includes the final report from research firm WolfBrown on th…
A conversation on “Creating the New American Musical” featuring Charles Busch, Abigail Poegrebin, Gordon Greenberg and facilitated by Warren Hoffman will be webcasted on #NEWP…
