Friday, July 27, 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 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
Today I get to talk to Diane Rodriguez, an Associate Producer and Director of New Play Production at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. This is a big conversation about how one of the larg…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
In the spring of 2010, I was in my second year of an MFA at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop when Loyce Arthur, Head of Design, approached me and said, rather mysteriously, "There's someone I'd…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]On Tuesday, July 17, eighteen theater makers in Boston's black community gathered at the Calderwood Pavilion to reverse the energies expelling them to the edges. They gathered to change the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:19PM[SHARE]As part of the 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation hosts a symposium: Form vs. Content: Who's Your Mama? Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Friday, J…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Several years ago, the San Francisco-based literary outfit, McSweeney's, embarked on an experiment to challenge people's assumptions about the printed word and our own demand for it. At the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
Tomorrow’s Weekly Howl will focus on the state of criticism in the theater, spurred on by Sherri Kronfeld’s recent article, the many comments its garnered, Rob Weinert-Kendt̵…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]From where I sit, I’m not sure who is promoting careers for craftspeople in our field. There are plenty of programs at universities preparing students for careers in design, but what h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
During the Critiquing Criticism discussion this March at Humana, (moderated by HowlRound's Polly Carl and live streamed on #New Play TV), I felt a familiar rush of anger. Here were arrayed b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]On Monday, July 23, 2012 from 1 pm PDT " 3 pm PDT catch Mugwumpin in conversation with cultural critic Greil Marcus at Z Space, exploring the topic of their next show, American prophecy. …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2012
2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco presents: Scenic Design and New Play Development: A Panel Discussion Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.inf…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
In 1968, African-American comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham capitalized on a rare opportunity to showcase his talents for a national audience as Judge Pigmeat in a recurring sketch on Rowan &…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
My Friday Phone Call this week is with Leah Wilks of Leah Wilks Dance in Durham, North Carolina. This is a call that gets underneath the experience of living and making work in a community t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]What is turning the Triangle into an incubator for new playwrights? Clearly, the numbers require some explanation. During the past twenty-five years, some 235 regionally-based artists have s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Lauren: Here we are in beautiful Ashland, working on Henry V, which is your third time to direct to the play, in addition to having acted in it twice. Joe: It is. I was in Garland Wright and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]I remember Saturday mornings in my grandma's kitchen in Durham, sitting between her legs, limbs akimbo, getting my hair done while Don Cornelius made his Saturday morning appearance on her t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
New York City is a ghost town. Come to the Provinces if you’re looking for adventure. You’ll need to pack another hustle when you come. And some sensible ass kicking shoes. You m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Experimentation is a poiesis, or a bringing-forth of some phenomenon through praxes. " Robert Crease, The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance. In his 1993 book, science philosophe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
In the summer of 2010, we were tired of fooling ourselves. We had small dreams in comparison to most"we wanted to make our own work together and live well. But it seemed like there was alway…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
You can walk across Durham proper in two hours, east to west, along Main Street. I frequently do. It's nicer than driving because I get to say hey to all of my neighbors out on their porches…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday from 3:00pm EDT " 4:00pm EDT on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
I've been struggling with the connection between "politics" and "theater" since the early days of my MFA directing curriculum. I (foolishly?) told my advisor that my approach to an upcoming …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:10AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 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 US. These plays focus on dramatizing where …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]Ladies of Triangle Theatre (LoTT) will discuss the state of theater for ladies working in the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill areas of North Carolina. Event Description: This panel discussi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Today I get a chance to talk to one of the people who was a consistent contributor to the early thinking behind the American Voices New Play Institute and the whole notion of the #newplay in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]This post is part two of a three part series on Allison’s experiences teaching a three-week course to students at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. Find th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PM[SHARE]New Dramatists will hold an informational meeting regarding the admissions process on Monday, July 16 from 1pm-2pm PDT / 2pm-3pm MDT / 3pm-4pm CDT / 4pm-5pm EDT. This meeting is a forum for …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Elated, energized, and head spinning with songs about thought, technology, history, and dreams. I left a matinee performance of the Lisps' performance of Futurity in Cambridge, MA with the c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Drumroll please… The latest iteration of The New Play Map has launched! For a detailed account of what we’ve changed in this version, see our previous blogs here. The goal of thi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Phoenix Theatre announces its 15th Hormel New Works Festival, and its sixth national playwrights' competition. The New Works Festival presents four staged readings of plays each summer at Ph…
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