Tuesday's Howl will focus on Fringe Festivals.

The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag “#newplay.” This week’s topic of discussion will be determined by readers’ votes right here in the comments section of this blog post.

The week's Howl will discuss the relationship between art and place.

Next week's topic will use Marshall Botnivick's article "Theater and the War Against Youth" as a jumping off point. Marshall will be co-moderating the discussion.

Call for blog posts inspired by the London Olympics

This week’s topic of discussion will use Natalie Kearns recent blog, "In Defense of Craftspeople: Nurturing the Maker in addition to the Designer," as the jumping off point.

Tomorrow's Weekly Howl will focus on the state of criticism in the theater, spurred on by Sherri Kronfeld's recent article, the many comments its garnered, Rob Weinert-Kendt's response.

This week's topic of discussion will focus on The Triangle region of North Carolina, which we're exploring all week on HowlRound. We'll be joined by Byron Woods and other contributors from this week. Stay tuned for more updates!

We've officially launched version 3 of The New Play Map!

This week's Weekly Howl topic of discussion will be determined by readers' votes right here in the comments section of this blog post.

This week on HowlRound is dedicated to Harlem and Harlem artists, so the topic will be about contemporary Harlem and the theater artists who comprise that community. Refer to Jonathan McCrory's article "Who Is Occupying Harlem" as a starting point.

This week's Howl topic is about creating a "new operating system for the American Theater". As a jumping-off point for the discussion refer to Polly Carl's keynote speech "Finding the Gift and Making Theater for Everyone."

The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay" from 12pm-1pm PDT (San Francisco) /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT (Chicago) / 3pm-4pm EDT (New York) / 19:00-20:00 (GMT) / 8pm-9pm (London – BST) / 9pm-10pm (Berlin – CEST).

Help us decide the topic for the next Weekly Howl

Join us for our second #WeeklyHowl featuring the topic of "Designers in New Play Development and Production!"

Submit and vote on the topic for the next Weekly Howl.

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Join us for Tuesday's Howl on post-show discussions.

This weeks Howl on the problem of diversity in the seasons of our big theaters, and the focus on plays that "sell"

Tomorrow we'll take Rebecca Novick's article "Please, Don't Start a Theater Company! Next-Generation Arts Institutions and Alternative Career Paths" as a starting point to discuss alternative models for supporting theater work and a career in the theater and see if there has been progress since Rebecca wrote about this topic two years ago.

This weeks Howl we want to know what challenges you have that the Theater Commons can help address

A video introducing our big move!

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.

Next iteration of the New Play Map is coming along! We are updating it with the current mapping system to make the process quick and easy to use.