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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Watch and participate in this symposium live on #NEWPLAY TV on Friday, November 16 from 11am PST – 3pm PST / 1pm CST – 5pm CST / 2pm EST – 6pm EST / 19:00 GMT – 23:00…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
Tune into #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, November 13 at 3:30pm PST / 5:30pm CST / 6:30pm EST / 11:30pm GMT. Use the hashtag #newplay in Twitter to comment and follow @dramatistsguild. This seminar …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
Hi again Holler readers! Thanks again for your questions and comments. I hope everyone has made it safely through the storm. I'm sharing today a letter from a self-identifying "tortoise." Is…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I am a professional playwright. I make a living writing plays. But I haven’t had a professional production in seven years. I write plays for the school market and student performers. F…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2012
As everyone heads home this evening to watch the election returns, wring hands, and wonder about what’s to come over the next four years, we ask you to take a moment and reflect upon w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:43PM[SHARE]Join us this Thursday for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST"an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
It began with Churchill, as it so often does. Not Winston, of course"Caryl. We were discussing the politically layered script Top Girls in a playwriting class. There was a pause in the discu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2012
As a playwright and theater scholar, I’ve been writing and thinking about theater’s relationship with politics for over a decade"ever since I brashly told my dissertation advisor…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
In 1990, I auditioned for an acting program in New York and the very thoughtful and pragmatic teacher informed me that I would never be cast as a lead on the American stage. I would only be …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Regardless of discipline or geographical location, we all come to know this about show business: without friends in the right places, it can be difficult to advance your career. The need for…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The One-Minute Play Festival & INTAR Theatre present: The New York One-Minute Play Festival of Latino Voices livestreaming direct from INTAR Theatre on #NEWPLAY TV" Watch it live here at…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PM[SHARE]To celebrate the publication of In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector, join HowlRound / The Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College for a conversation with: Dian…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
On Saturday, November 3, watch the livestream of City Council Meeting on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info. The show begins at 5:30pm PDT (San Francisco) / 7:30pm CDT (Houston) / 8:30pm ED…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:52PM[SHARE](This is part of a series of posts coming out of the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ MicroFest USA: KY/TN that happened on October 25-28, 2012.) Knoxville’s home to 300 artists and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2012
It is surprising how dramatic the fight for your measly soul turns out to be. I ended the very first essay I wrote for HowlRound with this quotation from Zadie Smith's On Beauty. If we think…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 27, 2012
"The definition of Appalachian art isn't so much about, or it shouldn't be so much about, the medium as it is about the experience of this place and how you choose to express it." "Joy Gritt…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
In the spring of 2008 I finished graduate school at Boston University and had just gotten hired at New Repertory Theatre, right outside of Boston. Not really knowing anything about theater i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
Today I talk with my boss, friend, colleague, and mentor Rob Orchard, Executive Director and Founder of ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage. Rob has been a contributor to the Boston theater comm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:40PM[SHARE]The One-Minute Play Festival & INTAR Theatre Present: The New York One-Minute Play Festival of Latino Voices livestreaming direct from INTAR Theatre on #NEWPLAY TV" Watch it live here at…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Dramaturg Jessie M. Baxter sat down with playwrights Lydia R. Diamond, Melinda Lopez, and Kate Snodgrass; all three writers bridge the space between practice and academia. At a recent repast…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]A few weeks ago I was talking to three members of the Boston theater community about having a sector-wide conversation on best practices for stage combat. We moved onto how many shows they w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
What makes an artistic home? People, transparency, conviction and commitment! We build the community and change the landscape simultaneously by bringing artists and audiences together"an art…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]What is the impact of art in your community? The challenges facing America are immense…and the solutions will involve art. The Network of Ensemble Theaters’Â MicroFest USA: Revital…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:29PM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
I’m writing this article from my rehearsal hall. I meant to write it sooner and elsewhere, but here I am: on the due date and between my day job, my rehearsals, and seeing a show on ev…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:36PM[SHARE]Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that hap…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PM[SHARE]Going on tour seemed like the natural progression of things for the Latino Theater Company. We didn't know that it would lead to action for change in the American Theater. After twenty-seven…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2012
Before we begin, let's get something out of the way"there's no use in pretending I can achieve objectivity here. I've lived in the Boston Metro area for ten years, which makes me practically…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2012
This post is the ninth 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, October 19, 2012
"…everyone starts vibing off each other and contributing bits and pieces of each other to make something new…" "Javier Reyes from “Colored Ink” as featured in Total Chaos, th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
Today there’s a bit of a reversal on the David Dower Friday Phone Call. Y’all already know that I don’t even record them on Friday’s, generally. And today, I am not e…
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