Recent Essays

The HowlRound community is designing and building the World Theatre Map. Track the progress of this commons project and participate in its design and development.

Peggy Wright-Cleveland on the FSU production of Seminar by Theresa Rebeck.

Gary English, artistic associate at The Freedom Theatre on the West Bank in the Jenin refugee camp, discusses the complications of presenting work on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in the US.

Matthew Minnicino discusses what canonical works of theatre we can turn to in light of the current political situation in the US.

Rachel E. Diken on Aglio e Olio, a “kitchen theatre” piece written and performed by Meg Persichetti and produced and directed by Laura Gilkey in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Rachel Spencer Hewitt talks to members of Mothers Artists Makers, a collective of feminist mothers in Irish theatre with children.

Rosalind Grush discusses why salaries for many arts administrators are lower than they should be, and offers some solutions.

Rob Oronato on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, a “communal, intelligent, erotic, participatory, spectacular performance art concert; a marathon survey dedicated to destroying through exposure the racism, patriarchy, supremacy, and fascism suppressing the fabulosity of all our country’s different beleaguered Others over the years.”