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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Bobbing in the Sea of Sunk Cost by HowlRound

If you are thinking of getting an MFA and are fortunate enough to be accepted, don't go. I write this presuming you have to pay for the degree somehow. I write this also acknowledging that I…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks"The Public Theater, NYC"Wed, July 10 by HowlRound

You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. Th…

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Weekly Howl on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Technology is transforming the practice of theater. How can we invite technological change and not lose our w by HowlRound

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…

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Monday, July 8, 2013

Holler: Too Late for Law School? by HowlRound

Got issues? Of course you do. Keep'em coming"write to me at holler@howlround.com . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, Help! I'm at my wit's end. I just finished grad school …

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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Summer Dreaming by HowlRound

When you are possessed by a dream, when you are the inhabitant of a dream, you are driven by this, by a kind of heart beating."Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous I dream m…

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Parenting & Playwriting: Unplugged by HowlRound

This post is the fifteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

On Not Buying a Statue by HowlRound

I was twenty-three years old when I applied to grad school. That part matters. I was more than a year past my college graduation, long enough to have a real job and a reasonable-for-New York…

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Elegant Variation by HowlRound

The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz takes as its premise a replaying with variation of the final scene from The Seagull . Nina, an actress, returns to the town where she grew up. She meets K…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Developmental reading of Andrew Kramer's new play "Crying for Lions""Panglossian Productions, Williamsburg, Virginia by HowlRound

Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presents their next Plays in Progress program with an in-person and online developmental reading of Andrew Kramer's new play Crying for Lion…

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Creating Culture Warriors: My Internship with Penumbra's Summer Institute by HowlRound

"What do you need?" Sarah Bellamy asks the awed group of students from Twin Cities' high schools gathered in a circle on Penumbra's main stage. The stage where children have been born, where…

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Time Sensitive by HowlRound

The central set piece in Ragged Wing Ensemble's Time Sensitive is made of one of the most challenging materials to use in theater. It's heavy. It's messy. It's slippery. You can touch it, bu…

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War Horse in the UK and US: The Challenges of the Replica by HowlRound

When I entered the New London Theatre just near Covent Garden to see War Horse in November 2011 four years after its world premiere, the Tuesday evening performance was most assuredly sold o…

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Oscar Wilde on Marriage Equality by HowlRound

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde This Wilde quote introduces the script for Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, produced by Walking Sh…

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Dispatches from LALA Land: Adventures in the OC by HowlRound

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was wary of attending the theater. LA is an industry town, and if there's one thing I'm not interested in, it's staged screenplays. Don't get me wrong"I …

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks"The Public Theater, NYC"Wed, July 3 by HowlRound

You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. Th…

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Practice. Practical. Practicum. by HowlRound

My hesitation in writing this post is analogous to my skepticism of MFA programs. Both carry the implication that there is some sort of practical path, a series of choices by which one can i…

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Creative Businesswomen and Making Theater Happen by HowlRound

This piece continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatre (WIT).…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Strange Attractor Theatre performs "Enlightenment on E Floor North" in Juneau, Alaska with a Watch Party in Providence by HowlRound

Strange Attractor Theatre present their latest original performance play, Enlightenment on E Floor North , livestreaming on HowlRound TV on Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm AKDT (Juneau) / 10:30pm…

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Let's "Put the Equity Back into Sweat Equity""Be a part of building a new arts economy at CultureCoin.org by HowlRound

Dear HowlRound Readers, Conversation Curators, Mappers, and Livestreamers: Be a part of building a new arts economy that will support the creative lives of artists in a dignified and equitab…

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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Interview with Sarah Benson by Bess Rowen by HowlRound

At the end of a good play, many people give praise to the playwrights, actors, directors, and technicians who have contributed to the piece as a whole. Few audience members think about the p…

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In or Out: Demystifying the MFA by HowlRound

A few years ago, both of us decided to apply to graduate school. Though Annah was living in New York at the time and Whitney in Chicago, we had traveled fairly similar paths: internships at …

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Left and Leaving by HowlRound

It's strange to be writing about Vancouver's theater community right now. The movers come tomorrow and my little family starts a trek to Ottawa, Ontario. Leaving Vancouver is very difficult …

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Interview with Vicki Stroich, President of LMDA by HowlRound

Jeremy Stoller: Can you describe the LMDA community? Vicki Stroich: There's a real mixture. There are academic dramaturgs, who are working at universities and teaching dramaturgy, theater hi…

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Notes on Vancouver Theater Life by HowlRound

As a born and bred Vancouverite who's built his entire professional career here (and there aren't too many people like me around, Vancouver being a city of transients), I'm not equipped to a…

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Live on HowlRound TV: New Dramatists' Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting"Tues, July 2 by HowlRound

New Dramatists in New York City will be livestreaming their Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting on the global, peer-produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv o…

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Vancouver on Fire by HowlRound

"Living in the most visually stunning city in the world makes it hard to create." Or, "No one in the outdoor capital of Canada wants to come inside to sit in a dark black box." Or "Vancouver…

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The Neo-Futurists' "The Miss Neo Pageant" by HowlRound

Heading to Andersonville to see The Miss Neo Pageant , a "feminist play for accidental feminists", I was totally preoccupied by an enormous zit that had erupted on my chin. At thirty-five, I…

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

On Dreaming Early, Beach Dramaturgy, and an Old Stinky Mop: An Interview with Heidi Taylor by HowlRound

Elaine: Can you describe Vancouver for our international colleagues? Heidi: Playwright Hiro Kanagawa gave a fantastic talk looking at our colonial history, the technological history, and the…

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This Moment: A Few Thoughts about the Aesthetics of Reality by HowlRound

I feel like we're in a reality moment. In the theater - and in the culture at large. I wonder if the fact that I've been speaking about it a lot lately might might mean that this particular …

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

A Coming-of-Middle-Age Story by HowlRound

I have read countless coming-of-age stories. As a teenager and young adult many of those stories were lifesavers. I still struggled but I didn't feel alone anymore. I'm discovering now a sub…

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Notes on Odd Spaces by HowlRound

"Odd Spaces" was the inaugural event of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new performance art program. Set across the museum in spaces often hidden, overlooked, or disregarded as loci of aesth…

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