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Recent Essays

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

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Transformation and Innovation?

27 January 2012

Vijay Mathew provides the latest update from the HowlRound office, in which the staff and some special guests start defining "knowledge commons" and "community sourcing" through videos.

Matthew Ocks
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26 January 2012

Matthew Ocks examines the question of a playwright's duty to write a "topical" play.

 

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Tues Jan 24th at 3pm EST on #NewPlay- Self Producing & Alternate Spaces with @TaylorMacNY

23 January 2012

Join the HowlRound crew and Taylor Mac for this week's Weekly Howl: #NewPlay - Self Producing & Alternate Spaces with @TaylorMacNY!

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23 January 2012

Literary Manager Amrita Ramanan interviews Playwright Lydia Diamond about her play Stick Fly.

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21 January 2012

Carey Perloff talks about making theatre in the Bay Area, and what makes San Francisco such a great incubator for collaborations.

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21 January 2012

Rebecca Novick examines San Francisco's complicated relationship with ambition—and why we should all embrace the idea of "investing" instead of "making it."

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20 January 2012

Dan Wolf talks about San Francisco, and what makes him keep coming back, no matter where or how far away he goes.

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In Search of the Artistic Home

19 January 2012

In the latest installment of our Artistic Home series, playwright Aditi Kapil speaks with Jamie Gahlon about finding her home in new play development.

A portrait of Emily Ball Cicchini.
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19 January 2012

Emily Cicchini draws parallels between the process of making a new play to designing a new website, and offers inspiration on how that comparison can serve future new play development.

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19 January 2012

Brad Erickson continues the discussion on theatre in San Francisco with HowlRound's City Series.

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