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The State of BIPOC Theatre
ArtsBoston's Network for Arts Administrators of Color 
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Boston, Massachusetts
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On the Same Page
A Playwright Forum for a Changing Field
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Essay
After Twenty Years, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Has its Last Hurrah
by Bess Rowen
2 February 2026
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Saturday 25 January 2014

Join us for an Arts and Culture Public Hearing livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 January at 6:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. PST (San Francisco) / 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. CST (Chicago) / 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. EST (New York).

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Sunday 19 January 2014
Boston, MA, United States

Company One Theatre, in collaboration with ArtsEmerson, hosted playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for a conversation about her play, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 19 January at 12:45 p.m. PST / 2:45 p.m. CST / 3:45 p.m. EST / 20:45 GMT. In Twitter, use hashtag #howlround and follow @Company_One and @HowlRoundTV.

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Monday 6 January 2014
Boston, MA, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) presented The 3rd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 6 January 2014 at 5 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 7 p.m. CST (Austin) / 8 p.m. EST (Boston).

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Essay

A Unique Approach to Dance

17 December 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about the work of Shen Wei, and the modern semiotics of the lift in dance.

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Saturday 7 December 2013
Easthampton, MA, United States

Seth Lepore presented "Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names"—a 12 hour theatrical web-a-thon spectacle that will look at the meta-examination of both failing and succeeding in real time—livestreamed on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 7 December at 7 a.m.-7 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 9 a.m.-9 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 10 a.m.-10 p.m. EST (Boston) / 15:00 GMT (Sat, Dec 7) - 03:00 GMT (Sun, Dec 8) (London). Use Twitter hashtag #howlround & direct comments @sethlepore.

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Essay

An Ambiguation in the Mainstream

28 November 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Pere Ubu, and how their experimental rock channels the ghost of Ubu Roi.

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Essay

The Unsaid Things in Tribes

14 November 2013

Ariel Baker-Gibbs reviews Tribes, and wonders who the play about deaf culture is speaking to: deaf audeinces, or the hearing audiences who are fascinated by them?

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Thursday 31 October to Saturday 2 November 2013
Boston, MA, United States

The Latinx Theatre Commons National Convening livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Thursday 31 October to Saturday 2 November 2013 from Emerson College in Boston. This was the first large-scale formal gathering of the Latina/o theatre community since 1986. To contribute to the conversation use and search for the Twitter hashtag #cafeonda. Additionally, use the hashtag #howlround in your tweets if space permits.

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Essay
31 October 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Disney Theatrical Enterprise's approach to theatermaking, and how high art and children's theater meet in their regional theater collaboration: The Jungle Book.

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Video
Monday 28 October 2013
Boston, MA, United States

The Ladies of Teatro Luna—Chicago's All-Latina Theatre Company—invited you to participate in Luna Unlaced, a choose your own adventure play, performed at Emerson College in Boston and livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 28 October 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston).

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Friday 25 October 2013
Boston, MA, United States

MASSCreative presented an address by John Connelly on his Arts and Culture Agenda archived on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 25 October 2013.

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Friday 18 October 2013
Boston, MA, United States

MASSCreative presented a speech by Mayoral Candidate Marty Walsh on his arts and culture platform livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on ​Friday 18 October 2013.

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Essay
15 October 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Pavement, an adaptation of the 1991 film, Boyz N the Hood at Jacob's Pillow Dance.

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Essay
3 October 2013

Boston is a sports city. It also is an arts city. Allison Vanouse takes a look at the similarities including how both mediums and how they share time and space principles.

Essay
25 September 2013

Adara Meyers gives an overview of her artistic journey navigating as a producer and playwright. 

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Thursday 19 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage present a panel discussion on the presence of race and class disparities in media responses to urban and suburban acts of violence, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 September 2013 at 4 p.m. (PDT) / 6 p.m. (CDT) / 7 p.m. (EDT).

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Lucy Watson's Re-Present Me at Anthony Greaney

19 September 2013

Allison Vanouse reviews Lucy Watson's Re-Present Me, a performance art piece meditating on the artist's relationship with the supernatural.

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Wednesday 18 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage, Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma conversation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 18 September 2013 at 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. (PDT) / 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. (CDT) / 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. (EDT) / 20:30 GMT - 21:45 GMT. 

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Monday 9 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Create the Vote coalition presented the Boston Mayoral Candidate Forum on Arts, Culture, and Creativity livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 9 September at 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

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Essay
5 September 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about DEAD ART STAR at Bathaus, and how social media documentation interacts and intersects with performance art and its goals.

Rocco Sisto as Richard II.
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Richard II with Rocco Sisto

22 August 2013

Allison Vanouse examines Shakespeare & Company's start to their history cycle: Richard II. She argues that Shakespeare's history plays work best when they speak to our contemporary concerns.

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Gabriel Abrantes and Theatrical Gesture

21 August 2013
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Essay
4 August 2013

Kyna Hamill investigates the implications of addressing war on stage and shares a brief overview of Theatre of War.

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Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August 2013
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presented the Art and Survival Convening livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August 2013.

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Essay
30 July 2013

Allison Vanousewrites about the premiere production of Adam Roberts' Giver of Light, an opera based on the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.

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