Recent Essays

Alicia Anabel Santos contributes to our series with League of Professional Theatre Women with a blog about founding the NYC Latina Writers Group.

Kristine M. Reyes writes about the loneliness of being a playwriting... and the saving grace of having other writers to help slay one's inner dragons.

An underlying assumption we want to examine is that the not-for-profit arts community is best served by adopting the market-based economy and legal system that supports and protects intellectual property.

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?