Monday, December 10, 2012
Join us this Thursday, December 13th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion abo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2012
1. Safe Pop It is said that the theater space is one of danger. But is it danger of content, form, or both? There are plenty of theater pieces that court no sense of danger whatsoever in eit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2012
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: PearlDamour's How to Build a Forest, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2012
New York's LAByrinth Theater Company announces a new Stephen Adly Guirgis play. My pulse goes jumpy. It's a curious thrill in the oh-so-appropriate American theater, this combo of playwright…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Breaking String Theater of Austin, Texas proudly presents Vodka, Fucking and Television by Russian playwright Maksym Kurochkin, Directed by Liz Fisher, Translated by John J. Hanlon …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Join us this Thursday, December 6th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion abou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Join The Playwrights’ Center Associate Producer Hayley Finn, Many Voices Program Coordinator Christina Ham, and past Many Voices fellows at the Center for an information session about …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2012
This piece continues a partnership between HowlRoundand the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2012
This piece marks the first in a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
I don't believe in doing anything half-assed. When I produce, direct, or appear in a production I want it to be the best it can be. So when I decided to produce an incredibly large musical l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
When I was asked to interview President Lee Pelton for HowlRound‘s Emerson College week my mind jumped from possible question to possible question. My peers urged me to ask a myriad of…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Sitting down with Mr. Benny Ambush to talk about his work with Emerson Stage, I was struck by the sense of showmanship that blends into his every motion. Mr. Ambush has been a prolific contr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]The summer before I started applying for colleges, I was visiting one of my close friends who lived on the Jersey Shore before it was time to head back to school. The night before I left, he…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
On the closing night of Project 2: Tomorrow and All Days After, I noticed the flashing blue lights of a cop car outside of my friend’s apartment, which was serving as our performance s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]The National New Play Network’s (NNPN’s) National Showcase of New Plays will take place at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. Thursday November 29-Sunday December 2nd. Th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2012
When I arrived at Emerson College as a theater student, I expected to find an existing project that I could be passionate about. Instead the inverse happened. The school became a magnetic fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Join us this Thursday late night for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 11pm EST / 10pm CST / 9pm MST / 8pm PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater cultu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2012
When the Center for Theater Commons first landed at Emerson College, few students knew exactly how to react. In April, the Commons dedicated a whole week on HowlRound to the venture at Emers…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 24, 2012
This post is the tenth 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 and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2012
Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: PearlDamour’s How to Build a Forest, Punchdrunk’s Sleep N…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 22, 2012
As I was waiting for my train home to Philly for the Thanksgiving holiday, this young man with a suitcase stood in front of the sixty or so of us, announcing that he needed money for a bus h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Last summer David Dower went to PlayPenn and got a big reaction after he mentioned that new play funding and resources has begun to shift away from playwrights and towards companies. I wasn'…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
As part of the “DuoLogue” series at the Dramatists Guild of America, playwrights Itamar Moses and Christopher Shinn will discuss what it means to be a playwright in the U.S. at t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2012
Something profound happened on the first Tuesday in November, something I'm still trying to digest fully. To my mind the election results represent a victory of love over hate, of human dign…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: PearlDamour's How to Build a Forest, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, and The Ne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
During a recent conversation with the artistic director of a New York-based theater company, he told me about his meeting with a major philanthropist. At one point it became apparent to my c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Join us this Thursday for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater cult…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]Building on the success of Golden Thread’s tenth anniversary festival in 2009, ReOrient 2012 will turn San Francisco into a Mecca for innovative, spirited, and thought-provoking theate…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
I have been a loyal HowlRound reader for quite some time. I was drawn in by and continued find inspiration in  the breadth and depth of discussions the journal generates. I'm grateful for…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2012
This is a story with an uncomfortably unresolved ending. It begins with me, at home, excited about the new online registration process for the Professionals Weekend at the Humana Festival. I…
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