HowlRound defines commons-based approaches as practices that promote relationality, cooperation, horizontal and decentralized decision-making and networks, bottom-up activity, and peer-to-peer sharing of infrastructure, material goods, knowledge, and ideas. Content in this section directly addresses practices of commoning from around the field. Dive in with essays on the promise of the commons, the birth of a climate commons, and how a commons becomes a selection committee.
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Facilitative Directing Centers the Art
by Kimberly Senior
1 June 2026
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Artists Lead the Way at the 2026 Under the Radar Symposium
Mariela López, a World Theatre Map Ambassador, presented the conversation Vivir de Teatro en Nuevo León (Making a Life in the Theatre of Nuevo León) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 6 December 2017 at 19:00 CST (Monterrey, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. PST (Los Angeles, UTC -8) / 8 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 22:00 CLST (Santiago, Chile, UTC -3). In Twitter follow @howlround, and use #howlround.
HowlRound announces the four selected convening proposals for the HowlRound Challenge, a new initiative to incubate ideas and seed action to make a better theatre and a better world.
Cómo un 'Commons' se convierte en un comité de selección: 2017 Encuentro de las Américas
1 August 2017
Abigail Vega writes about the process for choosing shows for the 2017 Encuentro de las Américas festival. / Abigail Vega escribe sobre el proceso de selección de obras para el festival Encuentro de las Américas 2017.
Through The HowlRound Challenge, we will produce and host up to five in-person convenings in Boston, from September 2017 to June 2019 that will incubate ideas and seed action to make a better theatre and a better world.
The HowlRound community is designing and building the World Theatre Map. Track the progress of this commons project and participate in its design and development.
The first of a two-part report on the tour of The Wastelands, a folk opera developed by the ensemble Children of the Wild, across the Great Lakes region of the United States.
Playwright and attorney Cheryl Davis delves into the legal specifics of Creative Commons and fair use, explaining how artists can use them to fit their needs.
Double Edge Theatre in rural Ashfield, Massachusetts presented the gathering Art & Survival 2016 livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 6 August to Sunday 7 August. Share your thoughts with #ArtandSurvival16 in Twitter @doubleedgethtr, Facebook, and Instagram @doubleedgetheatre.
Playwright Sarah Ruhl discusses the impulse and plan for theatres across the country to host readings of her play The Oldest Boy as a benefit to raise relief funds to aid earthquake victims in Nepal.
In an attempt to make it even easier for everyone to have their voice heard in the HowlRound journal, we’ve recently made some changes to the way we collect pitches.
