Monday, June 4, 2012
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday 12pm-1pm PDT (San Francisco) /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT (Chicago) / 3pm-4pm …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:27PM[SHARE]Maybe I should say who I am? Karla Boos, Artistic Director of Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, which I founded over twenty years ago. We make experimental work, original pieces and plays from …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
Pittsburgh is nestled amidst the banks of three rivers: the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio which forms where the rivers meet at a confluence called The Point. There is something abo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2012
After reading Cary Perloff's recent article I will admit that I found myself slightly offended (okay maybe not so slightly). I was quite sure she was saying that we should abandon new plays …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2012
The place is here, the time is now. Welcome to the Here & Now Project. In March, I put out a call for playwrights from across the nation, asking them to submit their work for…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a one-night-only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, writte…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
This week I talk to Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I’ve been in conversations with Tony over the last twenty years" he was an early mentor, an artistic …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]FADE IN. That's how all of them start, the scripts I write for my LA projects. It's also how I've felt since moving from Chicago to Los Angeles. As if my life were a closed aperture with a r…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
When I first moved to the new country, the language barrier was a hurdle I finessed by smiling or shaking my head, until a fabric store clerk cornered me and it took an excruciating moment t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:21PM[SHARE]Picture this: It's the near future. Your candidate of choice has won the Presidency. As they stand before Congress for the State of the Union, he or she declares: "My fellow Americans, I sta…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The Ingram New Works Fellowship was created by Tennessee Rep co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for theater artists to develop new theater works while in residency with Te…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2012
The personal essay, “That Bitch, Corey Madden,” was first delivered at The Women Studies Seminar of the Huntington Library on May 12, 2012 in San Marino, California. http://hunti…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 26, 2012
This post is the fourth 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
A few months ago a play of mine, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago as part of their Young Adults programming. It was the first play I've…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Ashley Forman continues this series. What is an artistic home? The di…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
This time around I talk with Peter Brosius, Artistic Director of Children’s Theatre Company, in Minneapolis. Peter has got to be the prototype for that old energizer-bunny campaign"he …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Today I’m talking to Tony Graham, a UK Theater for Young Audiences director who was also recently a Fellow here. I have to admit that I have had very little direct experience with the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]Last Tuesday"using the Twitter hashtag “#newplay“"we discussed the topic of “Designers in New Play Development and Production” which was a highly-rated topic idea sug…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:03PM[SHARE]Theater for babies? Really? When I first learned of this sub-genre of the TYA field, I responded with the same healthy skepticism I suspect is shared by many theater practitioners, even thos…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
I. The Perfect Audience Let’s you and I build the perfect audience for our new play. While we may differ on a few details, I’ll bet that our ideal audience would share some o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PM[SHARE]When I first met with Seattle Children's Theatre a few years go to pitch adapting one of the American Girl stories, the artistic director seemed momentarily stunned by my choice. She expecte…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]Playwrights Foundation presents Des Voix…Found in Translation: A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation featuring plays by Marion Aubert, Nathalie Fillion, and Samu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin I have an imaginary goat named Valencia who loves Payday candy bars, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
Do you have a “tribe?” My first and most important tribe is a familial one, because I love these people and have crossed an ocean with these people and together we've settled in …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2012
When I arrived, in 1998, to work at Children's Theatre Company, the largest children's theater in the United States, I knew very little about the field of Theater for Young Audiences. I arri…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PM[SHARE]Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in the final installment of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PM[SHARE]This trio"whose shows include The Book of Mormon (Bobby Lopez) and Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)"will discuss working in the musical theater today, from their days as classmates…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2012
We at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community on Twitter"want to discuss in this week's Weekly Howl. Be the community’s idea generator and submit and vote on yo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
Today I talk with Ilana Brownstein, known to #newplay followers as @bostonturgy. She’s the founder of the Playwrights’ Commons in Boston and we’re going to be very involved…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Jamie: What are the technical residencies at Z Space? And what made you start offering them? Lisa: Our technical residencies subsidize artists' use of our theater, lights, sound system, tech…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:08PM[SHARE]Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three pa…
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