Recent Essays

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.

The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag “#newplay.” This week’s topic of discussion will be determined by readers’ votes right here in the comments section of this blog post.

What does it means to teach dramaturgy, and how do the pratical and theoretical intersect to inform this oft-misunderstood practice?

Seth Baumrin and Karen Malpede chat about why theatre matters to Criminal Justice students.