Announcements

A call for survey participants before NYTCriticWatch ends

A call to action from Young Vic, concerning the imprisionment of producer David Cecil in Uganda.

This Thursday's Howl is on what keeps you working in your field

This Thursday's Howl is on using our smartphones to shape our community

Micheline Auger reports about her project, Write Out Front, which places playwrights in the Drama Book Store's window for a mini "residency."

This Thursday's Howl will be on the new roles and relationships of arts criticism

Tuesday's Howl will focus on Fringe Festivals.

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.

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.

The week's Howl will discuss the relationship between art and place.

Next week's topic will use Marshall Botnivick's article "Theater and the War Against Youth" as a jumping off point. Marshall will be co-moderating the discussion.

Call for blog posts inspired by the London Olympics

This week’s topic of discussion will use Natalie Kearns recent blog, "In Defense of Craftspeople: Nurturing the Maker in addition to the Designer," as the jumping off point.

Introducing Barton Booth, a place for writer and collaborators to get noticed in the hopes of getting produced.

Tomorrow's Weekly Howl will focus on the state of criticism in the theater, spurred on by Sherri Kronfeld's recent article, the many comments its garnered, Rob Weinert-Kendt's response.

This week's topic of discussion will focus on The Triangle region of North Carolina, which we're exploring all week on HowlRound. We'll be joined by Byron Woods and other contributors from this week. Stay tuned for more updates!

We've officially launched version 3 of The New Play Map!

The last update before the official launch of New Play Map Version 3

This week's Weekly Howl topic of discussion will be determined by readers' votes right here in the comments section of this blog post.

This week on HowlRound is dedicated to Harlem and Harlem artists, so the topic will be about contemporary Harlem and the theater artists who comprise that community. Refer to Jonathan McCrory's article "Who Is Occupying Harlem" as a starting point.

This week's Howl topic is about creating a "new operating system for the American Theater". As a jumping-off point for the discussion refer to Polly Carl's keynote speech "Finding the Gift and Making Theater for Everyone."

The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay" from 12pm-1pm PDT (San Francisco) /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT (Chicago) / 3pm-4pm EDT (New York) / 19:00-20:00 (GMT) / 8pm-9pm (London – BST) / 9pm-10pm (Berlin – CEST).

Help us decide the topic for the next Weekly Howl

Join us for our second #WeeklyHowl featuring the topic of "Designers in New Play Development and Production!"