#newplay Twitter chat on "Politics in the Theatre" Thursday, November 8
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Click here for the archive of this conversation. Join us this Thursday for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST—an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* This week we'll be discussing "politics in theatre", using these two HowlRound posts this week as starting points:
- Making the Radical Palatable: The Normal Heart and the AIDS Crisis by Jacob Juntunen
- How “Right” is Right?: Conservative Voices in Theater by Daniel Jones
Get heard in the conversation by searching for #newplay in Twitter and by putting “#newplay” somewhere in your messages. *The hashtag #newplay in Twitter is a commons tag (i.e. non-proprietary tag) for aggregating global knowledge, information, and conversation related to new works, new performance, and new strategies in the theatre.
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