Sunday, September 30, 2012
We know that, in the aggregate, incomes and life expectancies in rural America are significantly lower; infant mortality rates and drug abuse significantly higher. Presently there is insuffi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
Six years ago, I moved to New York City and went about making new friends. As I would get to know people and start swapping stories as new friends do, I realized I would get the same reactio…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
I interviewed my friend, the playwright, Catherine Filloux, by email. We email often, in any case, between Berlin, where I am based, and her home in New York. During this exchange,, though, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
Last week, the Theater Communications Group Circle Blog (U.S.) published data from their member theaters entitled Top 11 Most-Produced Playwrights of 2012-13 Season. Commenting on this li…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2012
On a moist Miami weekend in June, I attended CityWrights, a conference spearheaded by City Theatre. Polly Carl, editor of HowlRound, gave the keynote. Long after the weekend was over, her wo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:55PM[SHARE]As we wade through the very compelling data coming at us from the surveys on New York Times Critic Watch a few things have emerged: 1) We need a few more surveys to get to our optimal number…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Work on the New Play Map version 4 has kicked off! And we want you to help us. Seriously. We have completed the first of five "sprints" with the web development cooperative Quilted…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
This post is the eighth 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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2012
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow’s recent article, “The Value of Collaboration.” The most rewarding feelings in life are often results of experiences we ha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
This blog is a companion piece to Michael Elyanow's recent article, "The Value of Collaboration." For me, there is no better joy than collaboration when it's working well. And if you've work…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]I Blues by Italy’s MatèTeatro is presented as part of The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Watch the performance live on #NEWPLAY TV on Saturday, Septembe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Shortly after my play The Children premiered this past spring at The Theatre @ Boston Court, an incredible thing happened: I got a job copywriting. Thirty hours a week. A permanent writing g…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PM[SHARE]The following is re-posted from David Lan, Artistic Director at London’s Young Vic regarding supporting the case of David Cecil. Read more about this case here and here. As you may …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2012
It's fall and I'm reading plays. I know it's fall because the silly pirate hoodie is out. I like to sit on the couch on crisp fall days with the hoodie hood up, football muted in the backgro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
We are local, national, and global communities and networks of people doing similar work. What do we share amongst ourselves at every level? And how can we do this better? What are the value…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2012
Recently a short, sharp, shock of a Twitter exchange broke out over this video of music educator Eric Booth drawing a distinction between art and entertainment. Here is the snippet at issue,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2012
Though we’ve been a bit quiet here at NYTCriticWatch, we are working through our many responses to understand the patterns. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, we’d …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2012
Here’s video and social media experiment that we’re dying to test out on you. For the best results, have your smartphone fired up with a free QR code scanning app on Android o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:18PM[SHARE]For the past eighteen years, PlayGround has been working to promote and support the San Francisco Bay Area’s best new playwrights through a unique collection of new play incubator prog…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
Today I talk with Jeni Mahoney about the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho where she is the Artistic Director. If this group is new to you, take a look at their New Play M…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Our Toes Grip the Edge: Where Prophecy Meets the Abyss Presented by Mugwumpin, Theatre of Yugen, and hosted by Z Space (San Francisco, USA). Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, Se…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
I've been wondering about us… About artists. And artist institutions. Not only as creators of or sites for creating products, but as entire organisms that participate in the making and rem…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Join us for a discussion between two exciting and prolific writers"Moisés Kaufman (Gross Indecency, The Laramie Project) and Rajiv Joseph, author of the Pulitzer-finalist Bengal Tiger at th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Before my sophomore year in college even began, I was already aware of my destiny for the summer after: an internship. There was no way to wheedle out of the prospect; it seemed as if every …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
What problems could we solve if we had a billion little magical instruments that could locate useful things and ideas that other people could make use of and benefit from, and then be able c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2012
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not that men in high places lie, only that they do so with su…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
Write Out Front is an installation of seventy-six award-winning and up-and-coming (so much sexier than "emerging") playwrights writing new plays in the window of the Drama Book Shop in New Y…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
This essay follows a previous one, entitled Dialogue and the Age of Industrial Storytelling (Or, A Defense of the Theater). It is less a continuation of its predecessor than a response to it…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A provocation. A proposal. And a plea. The provocation: What would happen if we were to think of new translations of plays, both classical and contemporary, into English the same way that we…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 2, 2012
The American theater landscape now, whether seen from an aerial view or at street level, reveals a rapid process of shifting and re-imagining"in seismic proportions, it seems, of late. Thank…
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