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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
Video
Sunday 28 July 2013
Amherst, MA, United States

The KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presented Story Slam livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 28 July 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 7 p.m. CDT (New Orleans) / 8 p.m. (Toronto).

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Saturday 13 July 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers presented The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours, bringing together the Boston theater community to write, rehearse, and mount an evening of new plays in just 24 hours, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 13 July at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston).

Photo from The Nina Variations.
Essay
4 July 2013

Brown Box Theatre Project’s production of The Nina Variations cast three actresses as Nina. Allison Vanouse constrasts Steven Dietz's play with other works that explore repetition and deconstruct classic plays.

A hallway in the MFA.
Essay
25 June 2013

Allison Vanouse reviews "Odd Spaces" at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. What is to be gained, she asks, in finding new ways to perform in odd spaces?

A ballet dancer executes a difficult leap.
Essay
20 June 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Boston Ballet's 2013 triple-bill of George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C, and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma

Video
Sunday 16 June 2013
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presented "From the Dirty War and Beyond"—a conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona and Jorge Onofri livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 June 2013 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 11 a.m. CDT (Austin) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1 p.m. ART (Buenos Aires) / 16:00 GMT / 5 p.m. BST (London) / 6 p.m. CEST (Berlin).

Photo from the play Edge.
Essay
14 May 2013

Allison Vanouse profiles Near Death, a performance art presentation at Boston's Cyclorama.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Video
Wednesday 3 April 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Emerson College in Boston presented two events involving Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 3 April 2013.

Wide banner ad for XX PlayLab Readings and Festival.
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Saturday 23 March and Sunday 24 March 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Company One and the BCA presented panels on gender and race in the new play sector livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 23 March and Sunday 24 March 2013.

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Latinx Theater Commons Steering Committee Convening

21 March 2013

Livestreaming of the Latinx Theater Commons Steering Committee on updating the American narrative of Latina/os in the theatre.

Headshots of Charlotte Meehan, Lisa Schlesinger, Caridad Svich, Ruth Margraff, Lisa Timmel, and Kate Snodgrass.
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Wednesday 6 March 2013 
Boston, MA, United States

Sleeping Weazel and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presented a panel on women writers taking agency in the American theatre livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 9 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. CST / 12 p.m. EST / 17:00 GMT.

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Saturday 23 February 2013
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson presents The Shakespearean Jazz Show created by students of Emerson College and Berklee College of Music.

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UNIVERSES & Double Edge Theatre

23 February 2013

answer some questions about their process as part of The Next Thing Festival.

February 20, 2013

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New York City Players & Los Angeles Poverty Department

22 February 2013

New York City Players and Los Angeles Poverty Department answer some questions about their process as part of The Next Thing Festival.

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Wednesday 20 February to Friday 22 February 2013
Boston, MA, United States

The Next Thing (TNT) Festival in Boston presented three process sharing workshops livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 20 February to Friday 22 February 2013.

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Essay

The Debate Society & Mondo Bizarro

20 February 2013

Mondo Bizarro and ArtSpot Productions answer some questions about their process as part of The Next Thing Festival.

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Sunday 17 February 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Interim Writers presented a staged reading of John Greiner-Ferris's new play Highland Center, Indiana livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 17 February 2013 at 4:30 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7:30 p.m. EST (Boston).

Logo for One Minute Play Festival.
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Sunday 6 January 2012
Boston, MA, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presented The 2nd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 6 January 2012 at 5 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EST (Boston) / 01:00 GMT (on Monday, Jan 7) / 12:00 p.m. EDT (Sydney on Monday 7 January).

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Essay
31 December 2012

A collection of quotes from the top articles of 2012, and a look forward.

Cover of Diane Ragsdale's book "In The Intersection."
Video
Thursday 1 November 2012
Boston, MA, United States

HowlRound / The Center for Theater Commons at Emerson College presented a conversation with Diane Ragsdale, Robert Brustein, David Dower, Rob Orchard, and P. Carl on the publication of In the Intersection: Partnership in the New Play Sectorlivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 1 November 2012 at 3 p.m. PDT / 5 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. EDT / 22:00 GMT

The interior of the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston.
Essay
25 October 2012

Dramaturg Jessie M. Baxter sat down with playwrights Lydia R. Diamond, Melinda Lopez, and Kate Snodgrass; all three writers bridge the space between practice and academia.

Essay

A Manifesto

24 October 2012

(Artistic) home is where mission, care, honesty, and the willingness to change with time (while keeping integrity) lives.

A portrait of Ilana Brownstein.
Essay
22 October 2012

Ilana M. Brownstein on the evolution of the Boston Theater ecology over the past ten years, and what it needs to do to coninue to evolve.

The Twitter logo.
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Theatre in Boston

22 October 2012

Join us for this Thursday's Howl on the Boston theatre scene.

Several people walking towards a colorful tent.
Essay

The Rural Arts and Culture Working Group

6 October 2012

In the belief that rural artists need to be represented, Double Edged Theatre Company headed a conversation with fellow rural artists about action steps for the communities to take.

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