Middle Eastern America and the Theatre of Belonging
2 February 2017
Zeina Salame shares her experience attending a reading of Heather Raffo’s Noura produced by Noor Theatre, and discusses the social impact of Middle Eastern American theatre in 2017.
Public Perceptions of Islam in Post-9/11 America panel
With Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright of Disgraced
Monday 15 February 2016
St. Louis, MO, United States
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presented the panel discussion Public Perceptions of Islam in Post-9/11 America livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 February at 8:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 7:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles). In Twitter, follow @howlroundtv and use hashtag #howlround.
Henrik Eger reports on the trajectory of the Catholic docudrama Full of Grace from vision of the late Bishop Joseph Sullivan of Brooklyn to the stage in Philadelphia.
Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity: interview-based theatre production
Thursday 1 October 2015
New York, NY, United States
Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity was an interview-based theatre production by Ping Chong + Company and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim communities within New York City—livestreamed by CultureHubon the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 1 October at 1 p.m. EDT (New York) / 18:00 BST (London) / 17:00 GMT / 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
The Christians Symposium Moderated by Author Lucas Hnath
Saturday 26 September 2015
New York, NY, United States
Playwrights Horizons in New York City presented The Christians Symposium moderated by The Christians author Lucas Hnath livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 26 September at 4:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 3:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9:30 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, join the conversation on #TheChristiansPH and follow @HowlRoundTV.
Can A Play Explain The Muslim Diaspora? Nadia Parvez Manzoor’s Burq Off
13 January 2015
Some could argue that a play like Burq Off is not the right place to begin to understand the world of the Muslim Diaspora in Europe... But Manzoor herself provides some of that context, throwing statistics into her monologues almost as if her drama were a form of journalism.
Could the theater offer to both theater artists and theatergoers a kind of substitute for the awe they felt as children towards a religion that they no longer can as readily accept intellectually or morally?
Martha Steketee interviews dramaturg Jill Rafson about the process of developing The Mysteries, described as “48 playwrights and 54 actors retelling the entirety of the Bible in a single night.”
Dangerous inclusivity in Silk Road Rising’s Paulus
11 December 2013
Dani Snyder-Young reviews Silk Road Rising's world premiere of Motti Lerner's Paulus, and explores the modern ramifications for a play about religious inclusivity in Israel.
Lily Janiak takes a look at San Franisco-based Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Alsoas it explores the new frontier: what that meant to the first American settlers, and what the frontier means now.
Hannah Hessel writes about the intersection of her Jewish and artistic identities, and how the decline of Jewish theatre companies is encouraging artists to create their own work.
Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.