Recent Essays

Tuesday's Howl will focus on Fringe Festivals.

Against all odds, adversity created an ideal setting for Fringe. Em Piro chronicles the inception of the St. Lou Fringe Festival.

Barry Martin debates the growing prevalence of ten-minute plays, and whether they can even be considered plays at all.

Holler is a monthly advice column to help advise the many conundrums theatre artists can find themselves in. First question: how do I open to the door to feedback as an actor and writer?

Using the power of art to move and transform, inspire and activate, Occupy #S17 will be an opportunity to reflect on the importance of Occupy, what it has accomplished in the past year, and where it goes from here.

Following the Rules by Tiffany Antone of Prescott, Arizona is the tenth short play installment from The Here and Now Project.

If the play doesn’t explicitly need the genders prescribed to convey the story-do we need to cast the roles as listed then? It is time to start talking about open-gender conversation.

Phil Soltanoff writes about SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN, and how performance art can make us think about how we live, work, and occupy public space.

Norman Allen describes what he learned from the process of having his playNijinsky’s Last Dance performed in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Groenveld explores the different interpretations of his play The Hummingbirds as the play can be cast with any age, race, and gender to bring out different nuances of the script.