Recent Essays

In this installment, Ben Gansky and Eric Powell Holm talk about making the The Wild Plan.

With the future on the line, when the material is left to the students to choose for their showcase-honest and respect is the answer to making this opportunity rich for everyone.

Chris Garza discusses Intermedia Arts and Freestyle Theatre’s recent production about the politics of skin in the United States, which makes the audience question the validity in saying the US is a “post-racial” society.

Jacob Juntunen writes about the moral implications of turning fact into fiction – and the different ways we measure the ethical impact of these decisions based on medium.

In March, HowlRound hosted the first cohort meeting for the Mellon Foundation's playwright residencies. While we had folks in Boston, we decided to ask some of them just how their particular partnership came together. Why this playwright, why this theater, why now?

Time for action. This Weekly Howl focuses on concrete ideas and practices for achieving Gender Parity in the theatre.

Ben Gansky offers steps to optimize a theatre's business platform.

Alex Ates writes of a production of Love's Labour's Lost during the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the healing and cathartic qualities of community theater.

On this edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: looking for optimism in the wake of the Boston Bombings, and finding empathy in the darkest of times.