Sunday, April 15, 2018
By Elana Gartner, Rebecca Burton. Elana Gartner, founding co-chair of the International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50 Applause Award, interviews Rebecca Burton, co-founder of Equity in …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
By Ana Dinger. Ana Dinger explores theatre as a "place of listening" through the work of Mónica Calle and Rui Catalão.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
By Todd London. Todd London celebrates playwright MarÃa Irene Fornés.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
By Sara Brookner, Akiba Abaka, Rachel L. Fink, Kristen van Ginhoven, Stephen Shafer Mazow. Sara Brookner interviews the Steering Committee of the Berkshire Leadership Summit, which brought t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
By Gab Cody. Gab Cody reflects on the birth of The Monologue Project, an initiative that started in Pittsburgh, USA and Dallas, USA to increase the canon of audition-length monologues for wo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reflects on the twentieth anniversary production of Basil Twist's Symphonie Fastastique at HERE Arts Center in New York City.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
By Hannah Sachs. Arts educator Hannah Sachs talks about how introducing Theatre of the Oppressed to her students in the Czech Republic helped address xenophobia in the classroom, and slowly …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Nora Williams joins us to talk about Measure (Still) for Measure , a devised theatre project that revises Shakespeare's infamous "problem play" in order to engage with…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
By Holly L. Derr. Holly Derr discusses the dramaturgical implications of playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle changing one of her characters to a woman in her newest play Manahatta, which premiered…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2018
By Kitty Drexel. Kitty Drexel writes about the failure of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies to accurately represent the performers with disabilities that made Coney Island famous.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
By Molly W. Schenck. US director and health and wellness educator Molly Schenck describes five useful rehearsal techniques for ensembles to adapt when creating work around difficult topics.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
By Tammy Ryan. Playwright and professor Tammy Ryan explores three initiatives seeking to introduce historic and contemporary plays written by women (back) into the canon.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2018
By Holly Sidford, Alexis Frasz. Holly Sidford and Alexis Frasz report on the National Playwright Residency Program, a program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-administered by…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
By Yan Chen, Kit Yan. Yan Chen talks with poet, performer, and playwright Kit Yan about the intersections of genre and intersections of identity in his work.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
By Alison Weller. Alison Weller reflects on the process of writing Boundless, a play about the fishing community in Cape Code.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
By Peterson Toscano. Peterson Toscano describes his solo show Everything is Connected, which tackles religion, LGBTQ issues, privilege, and climate change.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
By Aysan Celik. Aysan Celik talks about the ways she's found laughter to be a catalyst for honest conversations with her students about Climate Change.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
By Chantal Bilodeau. Chantal Bilodeau kicks off this week's series on Theatre in the Age of Climate Change by suggesting that women in the arts may be our planet's best bet for survival.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
By Sara Brookner, Lisa Kenner Grissom. For the fourth installment of the Chronic Theatremaker series, Sara Brookner interviews playwright Lisa Kenner Grissom about living with lupus and lear…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
By Robert Duffley. Robert Duffley reflects on four shows from the 2017 Divine Theatre Comedy Festival in Kraków, Poland.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2018
By Tiffany Antone. Playwright Tiffany Antone discusses Protest Play Projects, a new initiative that is organizing theatrical action around gun control.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
By Kristin Marting. Artistic Director Kristin Marting discusses how developmental programs can better meet the needs of artists and shares best practices from HERE's multi-year artist reside…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
By Anthony Dvarskas. Anthony Dvarskas discusses the process of researching and creating America is Hard to See , a documentary theatre piece detailing the lives of a small community of sex o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Amy Cook of Stony Brook University joins us to discuss her new book, Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
By Gary Sloan. "What are you going to do with the boys?" asked the deputy governor of the Northern Ireland Prison Service. "What's the workshop about? What do we tell them?" "Try acting for …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell considers three plays that address black pain on stage.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
By Catherine Trieschmann, Dan Kois. Catherine Trieschmann interviews Dan Kois, the co-author of an oral history of Angels in America .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
By Jennifer Onopa, Rebecca Martinez, Nicole A. Watson, Sanaz Ghajar. Jennifer Onopa interviews Sanaz Ghajar, Rebecca MartÃnez, and Nicole A. Watson about their experience in the field as …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2018
By Elizabeth Horn. Elizabeth Horn reflects on how in the aftermath of #MeToo, it is more important than ever to teach the next generation of theatremakers ideas of consent, respect, and how …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
By Kaite O'Reilly. Kaite O'Reilly considers how Richard III has been portrayed on stage, the alignment of atypical embodiment with evil and suffering, and her inspiration with The Llana…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Claudia Orenstein of Hunter College introduces us to the art of tolpavakoothu, a shadow puppet tradition from Kerala, in southern India.
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