Aesthetics

Ezra LeBank reimagines how theatres at universites should interact with their audiences. 

Sibiu International Theatre Festival creates a dialogue from the performances of different cultures. It brings up the questions of how artists perceive and what that means within our work.

Jacob Richman shares insight into his piece The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery as a roving performance. 

Meron Langsner compares his knowledge of the sports combat and stage combat to better articulate the purposes of stage combat.  

Technology reflects and changes the ways in which we think.  We need to start telling more stories designed to accommodate our interactivity of the internet to grow with our audiences.

Eco theater is not meant as a protest or an art installation at a climate change conference. It is a complete and independent artistic practice that happens to focus on ecological issues.

Wednesday's topic is "High School Theater" and Thursday's topic is "Artistic Risk" moderated by The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis @pwcenter. Both days' conversations start at 11am PST (San Francisco) / 1pm CST (Austin) / 2pm EST (New York) / 19:00 GMT (London) / 8pm CET (Berlin). Use Twitter hashtag #newplay to participate.

Thea Rodgers challenges us to feel more deeply – and to produce Shakespearean productions that embrace the full depth and breadth of human emotion.

Jonathan Mandell shares insight on how television is influencing theatre.

P. Carl's speech delivered at ArtsCrush in Seattle, Washington on September 10, 2013.

Chris Garza covers the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival and reports back on its selection lottery, aesthetics, and discusses some of the 42 performances he saw.

In this essay, Jonathon Mandell invesitgates theatre marathon and interviews Mike Daisy.

This Thursday's topic: "Marathon Theater" which is presented in the HowlRound Journal article Too Much Theater? The New Marathons by Jonathan Mandell.

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.*

Join us Thursday, July 25 for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 11am PDT – 12pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 1pm CDT – 2pm CDT (Austin) / 2pm EDT – 3pm EDT (New York) / 18:00 GMT – 19:00 GMT / 7pm BST - 8pm BST (London) / 8pm CEST - 9pm CEST (Berlin). Click here for an automatic conversion into your local time.

This week's topic: "Realism: Friend and Foe"

The tour of UK’s War Horse in the United States shows us that, even a ingenious play, assumed historical knowledge can make or break an audience’s experience.

In the land of film and technology, LA pushes theatre to innovate the theatrical definition of reality.

Marcus Youssef looks at the idea of reality and how, as the first generation in a globalized world, that informs the structure and the creating of storytelling.

Tradition has been the backdrop of contemporary theatre. Hawaii’s cultural diversity highlights tradition as a way of showing the richness of islands.

Matt McGeachy tallks about VideoCabaret’s The War of 1812, which attempts to understand the war and its consequences through comedy, tragedy, and Canadian history.

A call to designers to carefully consider the details of their work, no matter what budget size they have, as it is in the details that show deliberate care of the design.

Jody Christopherson interviews playwright Crystal Skillman about her recent work in geek theatre.

Brooke Christensen reflects on her encounters with Emma Rice and Kneehigh's work, and the power of belonging in the audience – whether for 90 minutes and an intermission, or for the rest of one's life.

Playwright Tammy Ryan talks about the role of guns in her older and more recent plays.