Announcements

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

Submit and vote on the topic for the next Weekly Howl.

Submit and vote on the topic for the next Weekly Howl.

Join us for Tuesday's Howl on post-show discussions.

This weeks Howl on the problem of diversity in the seasons of our big theaters, and the focus on plays that "sell"

Here is a brief quip from the design team in addition to the final list of goals for the new play map.

Tomorrow we'll take Rebecca Novick's article "Please, Don't Start a Theater Company! Next-Generation Arts Institutions and Alternative Career Paths" as a starting point to discuss alternative models for supporting theater work and a career in the theater and see if there has been progress since Rebecca wrote about this topic two years ago.

As HowlRound moves forward with the same mission of crowdsourcing, P. Carl asks us: what can we do better?

The next big jump for the new play map is the ability to control the look of a new play’s journey.

This weeks Howl we want to know what challenges you have that the Theater Commons can help address

President Lee Pelton welcomes The Commons to Emerson College!

As the New Play Institute transitions to Emerson College as the new Center for the Theater Commons, we celebrate the accomplishments of the previous year with our annual report.

On Monday, April 16th Victory Gardens Theater is hosting the One-Minute Play Festival at 7:30pm CDT.

Next iteration of the New Play Map is coming along! We are updating it with the current mapping system to make the process quick and easy to use.

Ari Roth will co-host this weeks Howl on the past, present, and future of the DC theater scene.

Highlights from the Weekly Howl conversation on social media's impact on arts criticism.

Join us for the Weekly Howl on the impact of social media on the future of arts criticism.

This week's Howl will be on the increase of global communication and the idea of a generation without borders.

A call to playwrights from across the United States to bring to light stories representing the whole conversation happening in this country.

Join the discussion around Mike Daisey’s blog post about the controversy of the accusation of false information in his one man show, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Job.

The Playwrights' Center is looking for applications for their Internship Program

Welcome to the New Play Map, an innovative, crowd-sourced way to track all the new work being made across the nation. But for our newest project to succeed, we need your help.

Join the HowlRound team for our Weekly Howl on Twitter! This week we are discussing "Bound By Broadway: The State of the American Musical" by Ryan Bogner.

Join the HowlRound team for our Weekly Howl on Twitter! This week we are discussing "Intrinsic Impact" with special guest Clayton Lord who just authored the post "Count What Matters Most."