Tuesday, July 8, 2014
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Within the bigger picture of "openframe", I define myself as an immersive storyteller. My text is that of playwrights, space, and senses. I am adamant about crafting …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
By Gwydion Suilebhan, Jojo Ruf. The Welders is a new DC-based playwrights' collective whose mission is to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play development and production. Ove…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:09PM[SHARE]By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Is your company playwright-driven, director-driven, actor-driven? A conversation about aesthetics, authorship, and companies". This hour-long…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2014
By Carlos Murillo, Henning Bochert. I attempt as best as I can to embed the way I "hear" the language in the way it's shaped on the page. In my experience with the plays, it seems to have th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. In the modern military, weeks and weeks are spent tearing the "civilian" out of civilians-turned-recruits. Ripping out the thoughtful, compassionate, human response and r…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. Eight months after his release from prison, Joseph Assadourian is portraying some eighteen different characters in "The Bullpen", a play he wrote that has just opened. T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
By Brendan McCall. These personal experiences of Belarus Free Theatre"what they have endured, and what they are willing to sacrifice for what they believe in"humbles me. I cannot imagine bei…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PM[SHARE]By Shebana Coelho. In 2012, eleven young theater students succeeded in starting Ashtar's first youth festival. Ashtar Theatre, which was founded in 1991 by Iman Aoun and Edward Muallem, desc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
By Polly Carl, Julie Crosby. With all of the conversations about gender parity, I have been thinking a lot about women and leadership and the particular problems that pertain to women at the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:07PM[SHARE]By Mark Jackson. Three key values"dialogue, diversity, and quality"figure into every aspect of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival with a consistency that has made it the powerful engin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. A significant debate over how to approach new works has energized theatre-makers in the past year. Should critics publish their reviews of new plays with a different standar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:46PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Discover what New Dramatists has to offer playwrights; also, live demonstration of how to apply online. Learn about the selection process, what and how to submit application…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:54PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for its latest production, "Brigadoon". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
By Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez. It is commendable that TCG is doing this daring work around diversity and inclusion and we all should acknowledge that they are one of the leaders in the field…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:21AM[SHARE]By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Engaging Volunteers for Your Arts Organization" and will be moderated by Christian Carter @cdcarter"who like all of our moderators, authors, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
By Caridad Svich. Writing for the theater is an act of resistance. It is also an act of folly, daring, and one that asks of its makers and emancipated spectators alike to consider potentiali…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
By HowlRound TV. The Living Room Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri presents a livestreaming performance of Master of the Universe written and directed by Kyle Hatley on Sunday, June 29 at 6pm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:48PM[SHARE]By Catherine Trieschmann. My feelings are more complicated than merely wishing my children would share my love of theater, however, because what I really want is for my children to love the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. Although written in the early 1600s in England and set in ancient Rome, Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" elucidates the difficulty of reintegration back into society for our ve…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:48PM[SHARE]By David Dower. Today my guest is Tracey Scott Wilson. Her play Buzzer recently closed at The Goodman and she's also a writer on my favorite television show "The Americans". Tracey and I hav…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
By Bertie Ferdman. It was by now quite obvious that this was the beginning of the show we were all there to experience: Cynthia von Buhler's immersive staging of her grandfather's unsolved 1…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:23PM[SHARE]By Zak Berkman. This is the fifth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of People's Light & Theatre Company's (Malvern, Pennsylvania) New Play Frontiers. I will share…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
By Gabriel Jason Dean, Lindsay Amer. The aim of this article is not to point fingers. Though we were both angry at being censored, the director of the Purple Crayon Players production, Linds…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PM[SHARE]By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Theatermakers, playwrights: What's the best way to get feedback?" and will be moderated by Angela Eden @angelaeden116"who like all of our mod…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
By Dani Snyder-Young. The Chicago Home Theater Festival, now in its second year, creates participatory performance events in private homes with the goal of crossing borders, creating opportu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:14PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. City Theatre in Miami, Florida hosts CityWrights 2014"CityWrights: A Professional Weekend for Playwrights"which will be livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produ…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:55PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas will hold its 2014 annual international conference in Boston, USA: "Building the Future" and will livestream five events o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:02PM[SHARE]By Andrew Roblyer. Sometimes, the best way to study a theory or philosophy is to implement it and learn from the results. This twelve-part series is the year-long account of one young artist…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2014
By Joy Meads, Carla Ching, Annah Feinberg, Kelly Miller, Polly Carl. On June 11, 2014, The Kilroys, an independent Los Angeles-based advocacy group of female playwrights and producers, relea…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2014
By Fitz Patton. "I think that there is still a prejudice that sound design is not artistic, that it is purely technical. I think that's the crux of the matter, for some people.""Cecilia Frie…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:10AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. We as a nation, much like Shakespeare's plays, are brilliant at using camaraderie to: define masculinity, create and dehumanize an enemy, and to motivate our men and wome…
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