Thursday, April 26, 2012
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…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
One of the touchstone points of discussion to emerge in the wake of the publication of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play was that of transparency between artist…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:25PM[SHARE]Last week we wrapped up the third of four total sprints devoted to building version 3.0 of the New Play Map. Find the first two updates here and here. Our goals for the week were: To complet…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
I've always said that the American musical hasn't meant much to me. I don't really connect to most of those stories told through singing and dancing. Then I saw a workshop performance of the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:15PM[SHARE]Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Faye Price continues this series. What makes an artistic home? Ideall…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PM[SHARE]Whether it's a black box theater or the form-fillable fields of a grant application, queer performance doesn't always fit neatly into a box. When performing artist and curator Kolmel WithLov…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:25PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the “#newplay” tag. Tomorrow we’ll take Rebecca Novick’s article “Please, Don’t Start …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook's production of…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PM[SHARE]On February 26, 2012 the life of a young son, friend, student, and football player was taken away in Sanford, Florida. We now know him as Trayvon Martin. On that same day a criminal justice …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
I think one of the things an artist looks for is like-minded people who get them. Not necessarily agree on everything (now that can get kind of boring) but people who have an understanding o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Check out this short video about crowdsourcing from Swift Community. The long definition of crowdsourcing is ”when a company takes a job that was once performed by employees and out…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
To continue the focus this week on ArtsEmerson, the Commons, and the College, I have the sheer pleasure of talking with Anne Bogart. There is so much here we could have talked for hours. Suc…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Ten years ago we connected in a moment of mutual frustration at a TCG gathering in Portland, Oregon, called New Works, New Ways. We recognized instantly in our feeling on the outside of that…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:43PM[SHARE]I've joked for years that a nail in the coffin of a professional directing career is to teach. As more of us join the rank of the "teaching-professionals," or "working-professionals who teac…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
 As some of you may know, The Foundry Theatre frequently hosts different sorts of public events (separate from our productions) where artists might find meaningful exchange with people ou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM[SHARE]What makes an artistic home? An artistic home is established when a group of people collaborate together over a long period of time in order to reach a common artistic goal. It is also ident…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM[SHARE]In December of last year, RareWorks Theatre Company, a student-run organization at Emerson College, put together a workshop of a brand spanking new musical written by Ryan Scott Oliver and B…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
We are really excited to be heading to Emerson with Polly Carl and David Dower to continue the work we began in 2009 on the American Voices New Play Institute through the creation of the Cen…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]This week on HowlRound.com we’re talking about the move of several of the American Voices New Play Institute’s programs and staff from Arena Stage in Washington, DC to the newly …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM[SHARE]The next iteration of the New Play Map is on the way! We have completed the second of four "sprints" with our web developers, Quilted. We want to keep you informed of our progress a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
I've been asked to reflect on The Center for the Theater Commons: why Emerson; why now; what's the level of professional engagement? Before attempting answers to these questions, I want to c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:58PM[SHARE]It is a great pleasure to welcome The Center for the Theater Commons (The Commons) to Emerson College and the Office of the Arts. Through our academic programs, Emerson College is already sh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
This is a work of total subjectivity. I want you to know that from the outset. I also want you to know that I'm not tight with Mike Daisey. I mean, I've met him. He sat behind me on a plane …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:52PM[SHARE]As the New Play Institute transitions to Emerson College as the new Center for the Theater Commons, we celebrate the accomplishments of the previous year with our annual report. This report …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
People have asked me how I chose my directing "style," and I never know how to answer. How do you even make such a choice? Is there ever a choice to be made? How do you decide one day that y…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]On Monday, April 16th Victory Gardens Theater is hosting the One-Minute Play Festival at 7:30pm CST. Playwrights Foundation, Cornerstone Theater Company, University of Evansville, and Primar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:51PM[SHARE]On Wednesday and Thursday April 18 and 19, #NEWPLAY TV will webcast concert readings of the national finalists of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Ten Minute Play Award a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
Today I talk with DC-based playwright Heather McDonald. I have read, seen, and even directed Heather’s beautiful plays for more than twenty years. You can hear how she weaves a story"t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:13PM[SHARE]Taffety Punk is a DC-based theater ensemble committed to igniting “a public passion for theater by making the classical and the contemporary exciting, meaningful, and affordable.…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Jason: What is the Kennedy Center's relationship with DC and the American theater? Gregg: The Kennedy Center proper is the nation's performing arts center, and one of our principal interests…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:06PM[SHARE]As I carve out time and brain space to write this post, I am flooded with pride for the artists producing independent theater in DC. There have been many companies that have been "born" thro…
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