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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:41PM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
We have finished work on the next iteration of The New Play Map, which we are officially launching this Wednesday, July 19th. For a history of this iteration's development, look here.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:56PM[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’s topic of discussion will be det…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
1 A QUESTION Recently, my father asked me what I'm trying to do with regard to my work in Civic Practice. I told him" "I think we've got a lot of challenges these days, in pretty much every …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]This post is the sixth 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2012
This Spring Eisa Davis was announced as the theater winner of the Alpert Award In the Arts, joyful and sad proof (yet again) that we have to look to funders and awards committees to celebrat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 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 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
Today I talk with Bill O’Brien, the Senior Advisor for Program Innovation at the National Endowment for the Arts. This call is one you have to put down what you’re doing and real…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]When I was recommended for the Playwrighting and Drama Teaching Assistant position at Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development (CTD) I knew I wanted to document the experience…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2012
When Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' play Water by the Spoonful won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many called it an "upset." It seems that not many people thought a play about a Puerto Rica…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
Most of us grew interested in theater because we loved to play games as children. I remember playing make-believe at eight years old with my neighbor Alan. We used felled tree branches as sw…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Quick, name five modern Canadian playwrights (Canadian natives, put your hands down). Can't do it? OK, name five Canadian plays that aren't The Drawer Boy or The Drowsy Chaperone. Having tro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 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 10:08AM[SHARE]The first time I went to Harlem was when I was about ten years old with my family. It was electric. Being from Alabama, I felt like I had been transported into another world, a world with bo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM[SHARE]The ongoing goal of Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) has always been to elevate and offer fruitful and sustainable art to the community through Hip-Hop Theater. We reach these goals by empowe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
As part of Harlem Week here on HowlRound I am speaking to a number of producing artists in the neighborhood. Here’s a conversation with yet another bundle of bright Harlem energy, J.J.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]Today I talked with three of the producers of Harlem9, a collaborative producing organization working in Harlem: Sandra A. Daley-Sharif, Bryan E. Glover, and Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly. They a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:08PM[SHARE]As I walk down Striver's Row, at 139th between Adam Clayton Powell and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard, gazing upon the architecture of what is hailed as some of the most valuable real estate in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:13PM[SHARE]Actor-Producer Bridgit Antoinette Evans in conversation with Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem. "You need to audition for this. It's a great play.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
my place when i need my fix my deep shot my theatrical hit an artistic uplift i know where to go to find it there’s this space this place where wide, spiritually high people who stay f…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
As I prepare my play for a workshop production this summer in Harlem, three memories from the village that blossomed Malcolm, Zora, James Baldwin, Immortal Technique and so many others perva…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PM[SHARE]Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Radha Blank continues this series. What makes an Artistic Home? For m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week on HowlRound is dedica…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:40AM[SHARE]My first few days visiting New York City, I believed I was pre-destined for Harlem. The first New Yorkers to be nice to me were Harlemites. This was years ago. Pre-Starbucks. I went into a s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Harlem is a neighborhood that has historically been a pressure cooker for the creation of dynamic arts exploring the black experience in America. It was the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 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 these …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
As folks are gathering in Boston this weekend for the annual TCG Conference, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with the indefatigable Laurie Baskin, TCG’s Director of Gover…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Jeremy: Kwame and Chay, though you both have a long and deep history as playwrights and directors in this country (and others), you've recently stepped into artistic director roles at Center…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Teresa Eyring continues this series. What makes an artistic home? "I …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:05PM[SHARE]Catch the Wall‘s workshop will be presented June 21 and 22 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. On Friday, June 22 it will be broadcast live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay" This week’s Howl topic is a…
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