Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Tlaloc Rivas continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
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 this three part series as she t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PM[SHARE]Riffing off the “demand-side” concept that Cheryl Ikemiya talks about in the recent David Dower Friday Phone Call, we at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2012
This is local government filtered through the lens of art. Why is that a good thing? We hope seeing governance as a performance of power, rather than an application of it, can be liberating.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Austin’s Hidden Room Theatre, Brisbane, Australia’s Anywhere Festival in partnership with #NEWPLAY TV invite you to enjoy a backstage sneak peek of the very first transatlantic r…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2012
Do you read reviews? Sure you read the one that everyone posts on your Facebook wall with “congratulations!” next to it. And you know you’re not supposed to read any …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2012
I am the founder and producing artistic director of Live Girls! Theater, a company that produces and develops new work by women in Seattle. Since most of my adult life has centered around bu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
I somehow had the good fortune to spend time on the phone with Cheryl Ikemiya, Senior Program Officer for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in the middle of a very busy seaso…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:30PM[SHARE]Braden Abraham, Associate Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory talks to me as part of the Seattle City Series this week. Contributors have been talking about the Writers’ Group there…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:08PM[SHARE]The recent census data reveals that Seattle is one of the "whitest big cities" in the country. Sixty-six percent of the people who completed the census here specified they were White. Intere…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Vince: When did you start writing plays in Seattle? Yussef: I began focusing on playwriting when I stopped all thoughts of becoming an actor"and later, a filmmaker (I made a short film in Se…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:21PM[SHARE]I came to Seattle in September 2005. Invited to ski in Leavenworth, WA, a lovely town in the foothills of the Cascades two hours from Seattle, I was struck by how perfect the venue was fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]If you missed today’s live broadcast of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman speaking from Atlanta, Georgia, you can view it here as well as in the #NEWPLAY TV vide…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Liz Engelman continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
Dear Seattle, I confess. I love you. Okay? I do, I love you. My love is bald-faced and blatant. Unabashed, unashamed. You might think it's reckless of me to admit this, but when it comes to …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the #newplay hashtag. We'll kick off the discussion on Tuesday, May 8 from 12pm-1pm PDT /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT / 3pm-4pm …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:10PM[SHARE]Live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info, the Dramatists Guild of America will host a panel discussion entitled: “Contracts 101: E-Publishing” on Tuesday, May 8 at 2:30pm PDT / 3:30…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
It was with a healthy dose of trepidation that my wife, young daughter and I moved to Seattle in 2005. Actually it wasn't a move, but a return: Northwest natives, we'd spent the previous fou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:24PM[SHARE]Atlanta-based Alternate ROOTS will host a community conversation with Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during his first visit to the state. The event i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:47AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
When Charles Mee writes plays, he draws heavily from existing literature, critical theory and other plays, particularly those of Ancient Greece. This interview was conducted related to the U…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
This week I talk with director Pam MacKinnon. She’s just been nominated for a Tony for her work on Clybourne Park and I am really grateful she made the time to talk to me anyway. We sp…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:59PM[SHARE]I've been leading post-show discussions at Steppenwolf Theatre for five years. When I started, it was a great way to insinuate myself into the Steppenwolf environment, and to try to be a reg…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Live on #NEWPLAY TV, The Hybrid Art Summit 2012 is a two-day event during the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas exploring cross-disciplinary creative practice and its relevance to cont…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
Is it true that only particular kinds of plays can be popular enough to fill big houses like the Guthrie? Are we forced to focus on “what sells”? Are we serving humanity or are w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2012
1 Content. The industry moniker for stories, which are now fed, like fodder shoveled into a voracious human pipeline, disappearing"almost as soon as they are created"into a global tract more…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
This post is the second column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwrighting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
For the last three years I have participated in that sacrificial rite of passage that so many theater artists have undertaken (and so many more theater artists have questioned): an MFA progr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
The discussion around the announced season at The Guthrie, and Polly’s powerful, and powerfully personal, response to it have put me in mind of the richness and vibrancy of the America…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:20PM[SHARE]Streaming live on #NEWPLAY TV on newplaytv.info from the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas is “Chewing the Fat: Delicious Conversations” on Friday and Saturday, April 27 and A…
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