Recent Essays

David Chapman draws attention to the ways we can continue to learn and be inspired from the multi-facted legacy of Václav Havel, first post-Soviet President of Czechoslovakia.

In her latest installment, Catherine Trieschmann talks about finding time to write... when you're busy taking care of very tiny humans.

The Playwrights' Center is looking for applications for their Internship Program

Isaac Butler argues for a re-thinking of the way we as theater artists approach and apply copyright and intellectual property.

Welcome to the New Play Map, an innovative, crowd-sourced way to track all the new work being made across the nation. But for our newest project to succeed, we need your help.

Jamie Gahlon has asked theatre artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Playwright Sarah Gubbins continues this series.

Love, comprimise, and honesty are essential to good partnerships. But are we as a theatre industry remembering to include these ideas in the way we make work?

Join the HowlRound team for our Weekly Howl on Twitter! This week we are discussing "Bound By Broadway: The State of the American Musical" by Ryan Bogner.

Producer Ryan Bogner explains why American theatre is attached to Broadway musicals and discusses the challenges of mounting them.

Sarah Coleman talks about the stigma of "sweetness" that surrounds TYA, and the idea that creating plays for children is no child's play.