Friday, June 6, 2014
By Greg Giovanni. Some might point out that Noh lacks the excess of Gothic. There is no visual, aural, or excess of story, but one cannot deny the emotional excesses of the tortured soul, th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
By Jonathan Mandell. What's intriguing about all the current cross-dressing on Broadway is how various it is. Indeed, I think it possible to focus just on the different ways men dressed as w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:58PM[SHARE]By Jason Grote. The O'Neill in particular is full of ghosts. There's a rumor, possibly unfounded, that the ashes of the late New Yorker critic Edith Oliver were scattered underneath the venu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:46PM[SHARE]By Elliat Graney-Saucke. Who is allowed to draw on cultural tradition in a creative process and still be considered a "contemporary" artist? When does something become "heritage" or "traditi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:26PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. "Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage" is an international and inter/transdisciplinary conference with an artistic program that creates a platform unit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
By Brian Hashimoto. There are those of us that don't buy into the Broadway idealism as much and more often find more gratification and excitement in other performance environments, and we ha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:51PM[SHARE]By Aislinn Frantz. The O'Neill is a space for the playwright to explore the boundaries of his/her piece (play, musical, song, puppet). The success of a piece doesn't always have the end resu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
By Jean Marie Keevins. The O'Neill's motto is "Risk, Fail, Risk Again" for goodness sake. Puppeteers at all levels, novice to advanced, are able to grow within themselves while focusing on s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:23PM[SHARE]By Holly L. Derr. Seventeen years ago Costa Mesa's South Coast Repertory Company launched the Pacific Playwrights Festival with the goal of providing theatrical opportunities for writers who…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:06PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "How are Theater Makers using the Internet?" and will be moderated by Ray Nelson @justraynelson"who like all of our moderators, authors, and c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:36PM[SHARE]By Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen. Guys, before you go: keep working hard. Be nice to everyone. Keep up the playwriting you started doing here. Handwritten thank you and/or apology notes. Find peo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
By Anne G. Morgan. In an age of seemingly constant conversations about how and why institutions are failing American theater and its artists, I see the O'Neill as a refreshing example of wha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
By Karina Assad. Before I found myself in the stories of Shanley and Shepard"but now I was only getting cast in parts such as Mexican pregnant girl, homeless person, or getting included in a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:19PM[SHARE]By David Dower. Today I get to catch up with janera solomon, the Executive Director of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh. When I spoke to her it was days before this announcement, bu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Wherever our skunk works might be located, it's absolutely clear that our industry needs that sort of effort… if only because every industry does. If we simply repeat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
By Maria Striar, Jenny Schwartz, Peggy Stafford, Ariel Stess. A conversation with Maria Strair, producing artistic director of Clubbed Thumb and Summerworks 2014 playwrights, Jenny Schwartz,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:09PM[SHARE]By Erik Ehn. So "Noh" is generally a move from praxis to peace, an elegant elision of motive to arrive at what has happened and what always happens.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:55PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Goodman Theatre in Chicago presents an Artist Encounter for Seth Bockley's world premiere play, "Ask Aunt Susan". This conversation will livestream on the global, commons-ba…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
By Stephan Wolfert. The only reason that I am alive, sober, and surviving is because I have community and the performing arts. The performing arts community offers the perfect setting to sha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:29PM[SHARE]By Alice Stanley. Ultimately, in theater that is created beyond the construct of typical linear proscenium there are endless choices, but there are also optimal ways to experience it.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:04PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:47PM[SHARE]By HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Bringing New Genres to Theater: Sci-fi, Anime, Geek, Fantasy, Steampunk…" and will be moderated by Kelley Holley @Kelley_Holley"who like al…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2014
By Brian Bell. Conventional wisdom would say that resident companies are too expensive and that it is not possible to run a theater on the resident repertory model in America today. It is pr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:43AM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday, May 28 at 10:30am PDT (Vancouver) / 12:30pm CDT (Austin) / 1:30pm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:16AM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday, May 27 at 10:30am PDT (Vancouver) / 12:30pm CDT (Austin) / 1:30pm E…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
By Tiffany Antone. Throughout the ONSTAGE journey, we've been doing our best to promote each playwright and connect them with the people coming in contact with their work at every stage, be …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:02PM[SHARE]By David Dower. Today I get a chance to talk with one of my heroes, Todd London. Todd is in the middle of a transition from his position as Artistic Director of New Dramatists to a new role …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
By Srila Nayak. Here, Caliban is portrayed by a white actor and an actor of color and the racial hybridity of bodies seems to liberate Caliban from a theatrical history of stereotypes and ty…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:44PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, Nebraska for the panel discussion Found Spaces and Then Some livestreaming on the global, commons-based …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:46PM[SHARE]By Laura Shamas. Is there really no institution in 2014 that will sponsor an ongoing annual study of American women playwrights working in theater seasons around the country (and directors, …
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