Thursday, November 13, 2014
By Carol Kearns. The Latino Theater Company has a twenty-six -year history and draws on collaborative methodology. This long standing collaboration can be felt through and through the ensemb…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
By Steve Lyons. The overwhelming majority of people in America experience the art of theater at their local community theater. Many of these audience members are in rural communities where t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:53PM[SHARE]By Ashley Sparks. I remember how the stories of this community changed my life. I was shaped artistically, personally, and as an organizer. The community has stayed and made families, create…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:43PM[SHARE]By Karen Anzoategui. I call the process of creating and performing trauma "spiritual work," because it feels that way. Embodying trauma is a cathartic experience that transforms specific mem…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:12PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. ColectivA in Cluj-Napoca, Romania presents "Institute of Change", a non-conventional performance on gender identity, sexual and gender taboos in contemporary Romania, based …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:50PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. The WSC Avant Bard theatre company and the Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program present "Visible Language""a world premiere musical, performed in American Sign Lan…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
By HowlRound TV. La MaMa in New York City presents the Urban Indigenous Arts & Culture Symposium performance of Don't Feed the Indians"A Divine Comedy Pageant livestreaming from CultureH…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:11PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. ArtSpot Productions and Soulographie present a Ugandan/American production of Erik Ehn's Maria Kizito directed by Emily Mendelsohn and livestreaming from New Orleans on the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:11AM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presents "Joe Toplyn on Comedy Writing for Late Night TV", moderated by Jane Condon, livestreaming on the glo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:14AM[SHARE]By Jonathan Mandell. At a time when an increasing number of people are questioning the vitality and relevance of live theater"if not explicitly, then by how they are spending their money and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:50AM[SHARE]By A.S. Freeman. Most productions are not developmental for the script and that usually means the text being used is effectively final. As is often the case, the playwright is usually not in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:08AM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. When a young woman arrives in an unfamiliar and strange town, she can't remember where she came from or how she got there. Time passes, seasons change, and she assumes a new…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
By JosÂŽé Torres-Tama. In the Latin American tradition, the poet, performer, and artist bears a social responsibility, an almost mythic duty, to document and articulate the people's strug…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:49PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons presents the "Grand Concourse" Symposium on Saturday, November 15, where playwright Heidi Schreck moderates a panel featuring Annie Baker, Sister Nancy …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:20PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2014
By Samuel Taylor. Ignoring the distance between Shakespeare's theater and our own causes us to make his plays sanctimonious, formal, and yes: unrelatable.…We can bridge that distance by cl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2014
By Richard Azurdia. Jose Luis Valenzuela had a vision of a festival that included artists from all over the country. Through seeing his vision realized in the form of this festival, I too am…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:17AM[SHARE]By Morgan Greene. Sydney Chatman is the creator and director of The Tofu Chitlin' Circuit, a community and youth ensemble training collective based in Chicago's South Side. Before creating T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
By Jose Luis Valenzuela. This manifesto was delivered by José Luis Valenzuela as part of the opening session of the Latina/o Theatre Commons National Convening held at the Los Angeles Theat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:00AM[SHARE]By JosÂŽé Torres-Tama. I hold steadfast to a belief that artists can be instrumental in creating work that serves as the conscience of our times while forging a divine marriage between po…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
By Jamie Gahlon, Georgina Escobar, Abigail Vega. We want it to be for everybody. I think that we have to make it so that our readership sees us as a chapter in the narrative, not a separate …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:44PM[SHARE]By Patricia Davis, Richard Washer. Richard Washer is a Washington fixture, having worked in the Washington, D.C. area for more than thirty years as a playwright, director, dramaturge, and ed…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
By Emily Morse, Srila Nayak. Six years ago, New Dramatists in New York was able to realize an extensive commission-development-production initiative. Thanks to a generous grant from The Andr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
By Dani Snyder-Young. At this historic moment in which it is still quite dangerous to be a black man in the United States, "Native Son" offers an important provocation. For all the world has…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
By Brendan McCall. In addition to new works by Belarusian playwrights, writers as far-flung as Europe and the United States, Australia and New Zealand, ended up making excellent contribution…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2014
By Jorge Huerta. This is a historic and life-changing event that few people realize has its precedents in the annals of Chicana/o theater history. A theater festival is the natural manifesta…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:38AM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage in Boston presents the talk "Essence of Polish Contemporary Theater Life Until Yesterday" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer pro…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
By Lou Harry. The reality is that nobody is going to be monitoring the ethnical line but me. And in a constantly changing media landscape"a place where an anonymous blogger may well be the b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:04AM[SHARE]By Teresa A. Fisher. Yet after reading about staged readings and their role in play development, I hit a roadblock. I couldn't come up with a definition that addressed every possible scenari…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
By Café Onda. The Carnaval endeavors to increase the visibility of work by Latina/o playwrights and to encourage the production of that work in the nation's theaters. The event will include…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:47PM[SHARE]By David Taft, John Kendall Wilson. With no assistance from outside their group, several student performance groups devise their own work as a solution to the posted problem. The problem is …
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