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This section contains content on the craft of acting, created by performers of all types.

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Essay
Presence Before Performance at ODIN HOME
by Melvin Ningyao Yen
3 March 2026
Essay
Creating in the Chaos
by Murielle Borst Tarrant
3 November 2025
Essay
Xhloe and Natasha on the Fringe
by Jonathan Mandell
23 September 2025
Video
Sunday 12 November 2017
New York City, NY, United States

La MaMa in New York City presented a performance of Don't Feed the Indians—A Divine Comedy Pageant livestreamed from CultureHub on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 12 November at 19:00 GMT (London) / 2 p.m. EST (New York) / 1 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 11 a.m. PST (Vancouver) / 10 a.m. AKST (Anchorage). In Twitter, use #howlround.

 

 

Essay

Approaching Gender Parity through Actor Training

8 November 2017

What are female acting students learning in the classroom? Educator and director Katherine McGerr discusses how gender parity in theatre starts in the classroom.

Video

Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays

Sunday 5 November 2017
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents a performance of P3M5: Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-minute Plays, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 5 November at 9 p.m. EST (New York) / 8 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PST (Los Angeles).

Video
Saturday 14 October 2017
New York, NY, United States

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club presented a performance of ALAXSXA, a production of Ping Chong + Company, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network on Saturday 14 October at 7:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:00 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

Video
Friday 6 October 2017
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented a performance of Vampyress livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 6 October at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

Stage Combat in TYA

6 September 2017

Fight instructor Jamie Macpherson addresses objections to teaching stage combat to young people.

Essay
5 September 2017

In the fourth installment of this series, Brendan McCall discusses the work of Czech-born, Norway-based artist Nela H. Kornetová , and her performance collective T.I.T.S. 

Essay

Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart on the Suzuki Method

3 September 2017

Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart in conversation at the Symposium on the Suzuki Method with SITI Company—New York City, June 3, 2017.

Video

The VORTEX 

Friday 1 September 2017
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented Ocean— a new play written and performed by Ebony Stewart, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 1 September at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

A Talk with Christian Appel and Renée Imperato of the TransGenerational Theatre Project

24 August 2017

Patrick Gaughan interviews Christian Appel and Renée Imperato about how they used applied theatre, writing, and utopian world-envisioning to create the all-trans, ensemble- based TransGenerational Theatre Project in NYC. 

Essay

Learning How to Talk About Casting

22 August 2017

Theatre practitioner and educator Sophia Skiles interrogates unconsciously artificial and increasingly antiquated casting practices and urges understanding of casting practices that advance equity, inclusion, and access.

Video
Friday 11 August 2017
Austin, TX, United States

Gale Theatre Company and The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented TWENTYEIGHT— a new play by Tyler English-Beckwith, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 11 August at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

Drama, Diversity, and Celebration

12 August 2017

In the second installment of this series, Brendan McCall discusses the work of Cliff Moustache and Nordic Black Theatre. 

Essay
18 July 2017

Fight director Michael Jerome Johnson lays out how and when to hire a fight director.

Picture from a production of Mankind.
Podcast

Dr. Matthew Sergi and the Surprising Truth About Morality Plays

17 July 2017

Dr. Matthew Sergi of the University of Toronto talks about medieval morality plays, and how performing them today gives us unexpected insights into our own world.

Podcast

Examining the Diary of Nineteenth Century Actor Harry Watkins with Dr. Amy Hughes, Dr. Naomi Stubbs, and Dr. Scott D. Dexter

3 July 2017

Dr. Amy Hughes, Dr. Naomi Stubbs, and Dr. Scott D. Dexter discuss the diary of Harry Watkins, a nineteenth-century actor, playwright, and stage manager.

Essay

Women, Shakespeare, and Processing Emotion

28 June 2017

Emily C. A. Snyder considers the differences in how women and men actors approach Shakespeare. 

Essay

On the Road with the Minnesota Bard

20 June 2017

Minnesota’s favorite storyteller: Kevin Kling.

Video
Sunday 4 June 2017
Austin, TX, United States

Generic Ensemble Company and The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented Scheherazade— devised by the ensemble and directed by kt shorb, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 4 June at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Video
Sunday 28 May 2017
Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, California presented a performance of I Carry Your Heart by Georgette Kelly livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 28 May at 5:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 4:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Video
Friday 26 May 2017
Cleveland, OH, United States

Playwrights Local presented the world premiere of Things as They Are—a new play about poet Wallace Stevens by David Todd, with music by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)—at Reinberger Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network on Friday 26 May at 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

Video
Monday 15 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented 50 Years of Theatre of the Ridiculous​ livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 May at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

An Earthworm’s Resistance to Normalize Difference

15 May 2017

Actor Billy Flood discusses his performance as the Earthworm in StageOne Family Theatre’s production of James and the Giant Peach, sharing how he engaged with the role to resist gender norms.

Video
Friday 12 May 2017
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented Promised Land: A Radical Queer Revival — conceived, written, and performed by Rudy Ramirez—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 12 May at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

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Sam Gold’s The Glass Menagerie

9 May 2017

Ryan Donovan considers the critical reception of casting an actor with a disability in the current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

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