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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]“So, you're having a pretty intense weekend.” We received some version of that comment"separately and together"several times during the course of the Network of Ensemble Theater'…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2012
The following is in response to Andy Horowitz's excellent essay on Culturebot. Dear Andy, Very exciting to read your thoughtful and expansive exploration of cross-disciplinary social practic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2012
I have been in show business for over twenty years. Because I'm not rich and/or famous, that true statement should be accompanied with a stinky cigarette and a cynical, weathered demeanor. B…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]And just like that, it's done. After three months, and twelve plays covering a wide swath of topics in diverse styles across four states, The Here & Now Project for the summer of 2012 ha…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
Today, dear listener, I have both a treat and a challenge for you. My guest is Julianne Brienza, co-founder and Executive Director of the Capital Fringe in Washington, DC. That’s the t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The United States' most visited city, Orlando, Florida, is the destination of nearly fifty-five million tourists annually. [1] A city littered with hotels, restaurants, dinner shows, mega-ma…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Every year, under a combination of masochism and duress, I submit banished? productions' application to the Capital Fringe. This application will fall somewhere in the middle of a moun…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The road from artistic concept to actual fruition is a long, hard, and potentially expensive one. How many of us have been awakened from a dream to jot down on a piece of paper next to the b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2012
When I'm asked about the benefits of writing/producing at Capital Fringe, I fall into answers so familiar they seem cliché: It's helped sharpen my style. It's a perfect crash course in self…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week we’re talking about Fringe Festiv…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2012
Against all odds, adversity created an ideal setting for Fringe. GENESIS STORY In 2007, I was a young whippersnapper plunging into St Louis from my semi-cloistered undergraduate life. Eyes b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:46PM[SHARE]Seems you can't swing a dead cat or any other metaphorical animal these days without knocking into a ten-minute play. How the devil did this happen? Isn't a play supposed to be at least long…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2012
Holler is a monthly advice column for theater artists trying to keep it all together. Email holler@howlround.com with your questions, life-changing or trivial, professional or perso…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:00PM[SHARE]Theater is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theater can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. - Augusto Boal, Theater of t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2012
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project has posted a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Does it ever happen to you that you learn a new word or meet a new person and suddenly that person or word is everywhere? This happens to me all the time"I'm sure it does to you, too. Recent…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
This call is with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, of rainpan 43. We’re focused on The Elephant Room, a piece they created with Steve Cuiffo that Paul Lazar is directing. It opens this w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN is a process of painting and drawing on space with choreographic gestures. It happens in public space so the performance is designed to collide with daily life. In this w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
There's nothing like seeing your words projected above the stage while hearing them spoken in a foreign language by the actors below. I first experienced this phenomenon when my contemporary…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2012
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwrighting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of the next …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:11PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2012
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week's topic of discussion will be determine…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:16PM[SHARE]Dramaturgy is, among other things, the subtle art of mediating between the discoveries of theatrical practice and the provocations of dramatic theory. Working in whatever modes are appropria…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
At John Jay College of Criminal Justice there is no theater major; most students plan public service careers in social work, forensic sciences, law enforcement, public administration, or law…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2012
This post is the seventh 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 a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2012
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramati…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]Why? That has been the most oft-asked question I've received in the twenty-two years since Plowshares Theatre Company was founded. Why in Detroit? You can do it so much easier and earn more …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2012
The Network of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Detroit. Although Detroit's community is fraught with limited resources and its socio-economic narrative dominated by devastation, th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Today I talk with Richard Newman, co-director with Liza Bielby of The Hinterlands Ensemble in Detroit. One of the things I love about this series is how it gives a mic to different ideas, ae…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Mark: Tell me about how you came to live in Detroit? Shea: In the early 1970s I was part of something called the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, whic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Where someone saw an overgrown railway cut, a coalition saw the Dequindre Cut urban walking/biking trail. Where others saw a vacant car dealership, art lovers saw MOCAD, a new modern art mus…
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