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Recent Essays

This is a repository of written content, sorted by most recent to oldest. Enjoy!

Wide photo of the Buenos Aires skyline.
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The Argentine Production Model

26 May 2013

Paz Pardo explores the theatre models of the United States and Argentina.

Photo from the play Beneatha's Place.
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The Sanctity of Ownership

25 May 2013

Keith Josef Adkins talks about the ownership of narrative, ownership fatigue, and the privilege of ownership.

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Culture Coin—Watch, Share, Vote Daily!

23 May 2013

HowlRound presents a video on Culture Coin, a peer-to-peer digital currence and resource sharing economy for all

Photo from the play Change.
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Saint Petersburg

23 May 2013

Christopher White in his quick trip to St. Petersburg- a “museum city”-found the mainstream theaters to be both devoted to Russian classics and visually immersive theatre.

Candid photo from President Obama's 2012 victory speech.
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23 May 2013

By examining audience and leadership demographics, Rebecca Stevens draws a comparison between the GOP and American theatre.

Still from The Happiest Song Plays Last.
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21 May 2013

Dani Snyder-Young discusses The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and asks: how do we invite diverse audiences into this exploration?

The Twitter logo.
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Culture Coin & Making the Not-for-Profit Arts Economy Work for Artists

20 May 2013

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.

The topic for this week's Howl will be about how we—together as a field—can rapidly intervene to make the not-for-profit arts economy work for all artists through the Culture Coin project that HowlRound is proposing in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual Challenge.

A person wearing a scarf smiles at the camera.
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christopher oscar peña chats about writing race with A. Rey Pamatmat

19 May 2013

christopher oscar peña and A. Rey Pamatmat talk about writing race in plays.

Photo from the play Baritones Unbound.
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17 May 2013

Shari Malyn takes us inside a day in the life of a Creative Producer at ArtsEmerson's Creative Producers in Training program.

Still from Here Lies Love.
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16 May 2013

W.M. Akers looks at how this immersive musical from Alex Timbers, David Byrne, Annie-B Parson and Fatboy Slim tells Imelda Marcos' story through disco, audience involvement, and theatrical hypnotism.

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