Dancing at the Harvard Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research
6 August 2017
Lily Mengesha reports on the 2017 session of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research, "Research, Pedagogy, Activism," June 5–16, 2017 at Harvard University.
Allison Raynor and Walt McGough discuss how productions that provoke or play to audiences’ fears offer a shared intense experience, which can be useful to generate understanding and empathy.
Playwright Melinda Lopez and Charles Haugland discuss the ins and outs of the Huntington Theatre Company’s Playwriting Fellows program, and how it can serve as a model for other companies looking to fill a need in their communities.
Epicenter Community and ArtsEmerson presented the Fashion Accessibility Project livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network Saturday 24 June at 6:00 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 5:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
Lisa Timmel, Local Playwrights, and Radical Hospitality
24 June 2017
Huntington Theatre Playwright in Residence Melinda Lopez talks with Director of New Work Lisa Timmel about the company’s new play development program and practicing generosity.
Editing and Staging The Dutch Lady with Dr. Joseph F. Stephenson
19 June 2017
Dr. Joseph F. Stephenson of Abilene Christian University talks about The Dutch Lady, an anonymous Restoration-era play in the holdings of the Boston Public Library that he's both editing and helping to stage.
In this second installment, Maggie Sulc interviews dramaturg Claudia Nolan about her experience with new play development in the Northeast region of the United States.
Weyard Ensemble Theater presented a performance of Much Ado About Nothing: A Reading in the Original Pronunciation at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 12 May at 7:30 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).
Shouting to be Heard in a Religiously Conservative Environment
11 May 2017
Director and playwright Tara Brooke Watkins discusses the process of creating The Bible Women’s Project, which fuses women’s stories from the Bible and the stories of women from conservative, Christian backgrounds.
Sara Brookner writes about her experiences and take-aways from participating in National Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, and Arts Matter Advocacy Day in Boston, MA.
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.
Multimedia theatre company Sleeping Weazel, in cooperation with Emerson College’s Performing Arts Department and Office of the Arts, presented Robbie McCauley ‘n Company: a convening in performance livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 6 April and Friday 7 April 2017. Follow @HowlRound and use #howlround on Twitter.
Kirsten Greenidge reflects on the playwright's relationship to this unruly moment of cultural shift and what happens to one’s work when the world around us is changing so rapidly?
MASSCreative presented Arts Matter Advocacy Day livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 28 March at 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. MDT (Denver) / 7:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 14:00-16:30 UTC / 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. BST (London) / 16:00-18:30 CEST (Brussels). Use hashtag #AMAD17 and follow @masscreative on Twitter & Instagram and on Facebook to participate in the conversation. The livestream will be live-captioned.
ArtsEmerson in Boston presented the conversation Claudia Rankine: On Whiteness livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 24 March at 3:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 6:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:00 GMT-UTC (London) / 23:00 CET (Berlin). On Twitter, follow @ArtsEmerson and #howlround.
ArtsEmerson in Boston and Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) presented Facing Exclusion: Pioneering Activists Harry Hom Dow and Tien Fu Wu, a theatrical presentation and conversation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 18 March at 2 p.m. EST (New York), 1 p.m. CST (Chicago), 12 p.m. MST (Denver), and 11 a.m. PST (Los Angeles).
Daniel Coelho discusses Druid Theatre Company’s revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, making parallels to the women of Grey Gardens and Tennessee Williams’ character Blanche DuBois.
The AXIS Dance Company Residency at Boston University presented a Performing Arts and Disability: Leadership, Inclusion, and Training Symposium panel discussion featuring regional arts leaders and artists livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 13 March at 1:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 12:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:00 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 17:00 GMT-UTC (London) / 18:00 CET (Berlin) / 19:00 EET (Bucharest).
