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Video
The State of BIPOC Theatre
ArtsBoston's Network for Arts Administrators of Color 
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Boston, Massachusetts
Video
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
10 March to Sunday 12 March 2017
Boston, MA, United States

The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) partnered with HowlRound to livestream the convening Art in the Service of Understanding: Bridging Artists, Military, Veterans, and Civilian Communities from Boston on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 10 March to Sunday 12 March. Use Twitter hashtag #artsandmilitary to participate in online conversation.

Essay
10 February 2017

Ramona Ostrowski speaks with director Gary Hynes about Druid Theatre Company, revisiting Beauty Queen of Leenane twenty years after its first production, and new political movements within Irish theatre.

Essay
4 February 2017

Bryn Boice writes about how a rift with her father led her to begin work on a devised piece called I, Snowflake.

Video
Monday 30 January 2017
Boston, MA, United States

#BreakingTheBinary is a free and public symposium focusing on accessibility for trans* people working in the arts presented by the American Repertory Theater at the Oberon. The event included a panel discussion of trans-identified theatre workers—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network howlround.tv Monday 30 January at 12 p.m. EST to 1:00 p.m. EST (Boston) / 11 a.m. CST to 12 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 10 a.m. MST to 11 a.m. MST (Denver) / 9 a.m. PST to 10 a.m. PST (San Francisco)/ 17:00 GMT—18:00 GMT. Follow the conversation on social media via the hashtag #BreakingtheBinary and follow @howlroundtv.

Essay

an interview with SK Kerastas and Lisa Evans

26 January 2017

Regina Victor interviews SK Kerastas and Lisa Evans about their work to make theatre institutions more accessible for trans* people, on and off stage.

Essay
24 January 2017

Max Cerci discusses watching Gemma Cooper-Novak’s Through the Glory Hole and What We Found There as a summer intern for The Theater Offensive, reflecting on his theatre background and his queer identity.

Essay

Interning and Envisioning at The Theater Offensive

23 January 2017

Tatiana Gil reflects on her experience interning for The Theater Offensive in Boston, Massachusetss last summer, sharing her vision of organizing creative spaces for queer youth.

Essay

Making The Work Matter with Double Edge Theatre at Boston Conservatory at Berklee

21 January 2017

Mark Krawczyk writes about the experience his students at Boston Conservatory at Berklee had during a semester of working with artists from Double Edge Theatre. 

Video
Thursday 19 January 2017
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson in Boston participated in the Ghostlight Project livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 January at 5:30 p.m. EST (Boston)/4:30 p.m. CST (Austin)/3:30 p.m. MST (Denver)/ 2:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles). In Twitter, use #howlround to participate in the conversation and follow @howlroundtv.

Essay

Theatre and Posttraumatic Growth After the 2016 Election

4 January 2017

Emily White writes about how her research on posttraumatic growth informs her belief that theatre can be an important tool to help America unite and heal.

Podcast

Exploring the Surprising—and Disturbing—Origins of “Jingle Bells” with Kyna Hamill

19 December 2016

Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Kyna Hamill about her research into the background of the holiday carol "Jingle Bells."

Essay
19 November 2016

Sean Daniels writes about the successes and challenges of his first year as Artisitic Director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre. 

Essay
9 November 2016

Allison Raynor talks with playwright Melinda Lopez about women on stage: who she writes, how she writes them, and who she’d like to see.

Essay
28 October 2016

Travis Amiel shares his experience of engaging audiences in Company One Theatre’s production of The T Party by Natsu Onoda Power.

Essay
20 October 2016

Josh Platt on Double Edge Theatre’s Latin American Spectacle in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Cada Luna Azul / Once a Blue Moon in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and the Springfield Spectacle, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Video
Sunday 16 October 2016
Boston, MA, United States

Huntington Theatre Company in Boston presented a panel conversation about Mike Lew's Tiger Style! with Ma-Yi Writers Lab members livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 16 October at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Follow @HowlRoundTV on Twitter and share your thoughts with #howlround.

Video
Friday 14 October 2016
Boston, MA, United States

Emerson College presented the panel discussion The Crisis in Casting for Stage and Media livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 14 October at 12 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles)/ 1 p.m. MDT (Denver)/ 2 p.m. CDT (New Orleans)/ 3 p.m. EDT (Boston).

Essay

Shakespeare’s Monopoly on the Magic of Free Outdoor Theatre

4 October 2016

Shari Caplan on Love’s Labour's Lost as performed by The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, Massachusetts.

Essay
1 October 2016

Josh Platt on The Merchant of Venice directed by Tina Packer in Lenox, Massachusetts. 

Essay
25 September 2016

Kyna Hamill and Brianna Randolph discuss crafting Letters to Medford, a theatre performance by Two Roads Performance Projects in Massachusetts. 

Video
Saturday 6 August to Sunday 7 August 2017
Ashfield, MA, United States

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 @doubleedgethtrFacebook, and Instagram @doubleedgetheatre.

Essay
7 August 2016

Carey Purcell looks at female artistic leadership of summer companies at New York Stage and Film, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Essay

Why Kirsten Greenidge? Why Company One Theatre?

30 July 2016

Shawn LaCount, Artistic Director of Company One Theatre in Boston and playwright-in-residence Kirsten Greenidge discuss their participation in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program.

Video
Friday 29 July 2016
Boston, MA, United States

As part of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program convening hosted in Boston at HowlRound, Ten Thousand Things playwright-in-residence Kira Obolensky talked about how her work with this award-winning theatre in Minneapolis has changed for her how she thinks about the audience. Livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 29 July at 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:30 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Share your thoughts with #howlround in Twitter.

Video

Judith Smith, Co-founder and Artistic Director AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Cheri Blauwet, Physician and Paralympian

Wednesday 15 June 2016
Boston, MA, United States

Boston Dance Alliance presented the Wheels UP! Keynote Conversation on Artistry and Athleticism between Judith Smith, Co-founder and Artistic Director AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Cheri Blauwet, Physician and Paralympian—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Wednesday 15 June at 1 p.m. EDT - 1:45 p.m. EDT (New York) / 12 p.m. CDT - 12:45 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10 a.m. PDT - 10:45 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 6 p.m. BST - 6:45 p.m. BST (London). Share your thoughts and media using #BostonDanceAll#FPIDance#AXISDanceCo#wipeoutstigma and #howlround

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