Recent Essays

A sampling of the HowlRound community’s voices in the 2014 Blog.

January 2015 marks the four-year anniversary of the launch of the commons project called the HowlRound Journal. Thank you authors, readers, and commenters—and thank all of you for participating in this ongoing conversation about theatre.

It's been a great year for NewCrit! Check out a sampling from our pieces in 2014.

We hope 2015 activates us all and that we can continue to function as a digital-stage in which to strengthen our conversations, and augment our visibility. For now, we leave 2014 by offering you some of our favorite excerpts from Café Onda this year.

Commons Producer Laura Brueckner interviews Suzanne Appel, managing director of Cutting Ball Theater, about playwright Andrew Saito’s residency.

Sarah Orem explores the often-humorous way OCD is treated in mainstream film and television, and then shares three different examples of how theater treats the illness with honesty.

University of Kentucky director desires a multicultural environment; writes and directs a theatre piece based on Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Isaac Gomez reflects on Victory Gardens’ “We Must Breathe,” which included performance and activism in response to recent current events.

Corey Ruzicano talks to playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer about making theater for young audiences, how a kid should be a kid, and what he thinks of when he writes from his community in Tasmania.