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The Living Presence of Our History Part X
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The Living Presence of Our History Part X
The Ohketeau Cultural Center and co-producer Double Edge Theatre host a panel with Indigenous leaders and scholars
Sunday 10 March 2024
Massachusetts
Kinship, Solidarity, and Working Towards Everyone’s Survival
Essay
Kinship, Solidarity, and Working Towards Everyone’s Survival
by Mary Amanda McNeil , Samora Pinderhughes, Storme Webber
14 September 2023
Decolonizing Arts Leadership Through Shared Black and Indigenous Leadership
Essay
Decolonizing Arts Leadership Through Shared Black and Indigenous Leadership
by David Howse, Ronee Penoi
12 September 2023
Theatre History Podcast # 16
Podcast

Theatre History Podcast # 16

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."

Saved by my Audience
Essay

Saved by my Audience

19 November 2016

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

An interview with Melinda Lopez on the State of Female Characters in Drama
Essay

An interview with Melinda Lopez on the State of Female Characters in Drama

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.

Audience Engagement in a Dolphin Costume
Essay

Audience Engagement in a Dolphin Costume

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.

Double Edge Theatre’s Latin American Cycle Builds Bridges Across Massachusetts
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Double Edge Theatre’s Latin American Cycle Builds Bridges Across Massachusetts

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.

Conversation about Mike Lew's Tiger Style! with Ma-Yi Writers Lab Members at Huntington Theatre Company
Video

Conversation about Mike Lew's Tiger Style! with Ma-Yi Writers Lab Members at Huntington Theatre Company

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.

The Crisis in Casting for Stage and Media Panel at Emerson College
Video

The Crisis in Casting for Stage and Media Panel at Emerson College

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).

Summer’s Lease
Essay

Summer’s Lease

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.

Shakespeare & Company’s second production of The Merchant of Venice
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Shakespeare & Company’s second production of The Merchant of Venice

1 October 2016

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

Staging Local, Staying Small
Essay

Staging Local, Staying Small

25 September 2016

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

Art & Survival 2016 at Double Edge Theatre
Video

Art & Survival 2016 at Double Edge Theatre

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.

The Women of Summer
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The Women of Summer

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.

Playwright Residency
Essay

Playwright Residency

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.

Imagining the Audience: a talk by playwright Kira Obolensky at Ten Thousand Things
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Imagining the Audience: a talk by playwright Kira Obolensky at Ten Thousand Things

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.

Wheels UP! Keynote Conversation on Artistry and Athleticism
Video

Wheels UP! Keynote Conversation on Artistry and Athleticism

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

Thunder in Blunderland
Essay

Thunder in Blunderland

10 June 2016

Rob Orchard writes about Robert Brustein’s career of writing political theatre, and shares an audio recording of a new satirical skit.

Sans Everything but the Essential
Essay

Sans Everything but the Essential

Shakespeare, Space Suits, and the Power of the Human

31 May 2016

Shari Caplan on Sans Everything by Strange Attractor Theatre at the Charlestown Working Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara at SpeakEasy Stage Company
Essay

Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara at SpeakEasy Stage Company

19 May 2016

Josh Platt reflects on Boston-based director Summer Williams’ interpretation of Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara, in light of her recent direction of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Some Other Race: Exploring the Diversity within the Latino Story—A Public Dialogue
Video

Some Other Race: Exploring the Diversity within the Latino Story—A Public Dialogue

Tuesday 10 May 2016
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson in Boston presented the public dialogue Some Other Race: Exploring the Diversity within the Latino Story livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 May at 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Share your thoughts on Twitter with hashtag #cafeonda.

Sharing as Power
Essay

Sharing as Power

Performer’s Reflection on Charles Mee’s Love Sonnets

8 May 2016

Actors Mary Frances Noser and Emma Lukens reflect on their process acting in Love Sonnets at Emerson College.

Reclaiming Space for Women in Love Sonnets
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Reclaiming Space for Women in Love Sonnets

7 May 2016

In this third installment, Victoria Masteller discusses her experience as Associate Director and examines how space informed the production of Love Sonnets.

Examining Love Sonnets from a Critical Distance
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Examining Love Sonnets from a Critical Distance

6 May 2016

In this second installment, Helen Schultz reflects on her dramaturgical process.

Love Sonnets
Essay

Love Sonnets

Introduction

5 May 2016

In this first installment, Director Caitlin Bailey shares her directorial process for Love Sonnets: Things Women Say, a compilation of monologues for women written by Chuck Mee.

Claiming Your Space: a Conversation about Writing and Performing Identity with Cuban-American Performer/Playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez
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Claiming Your Space: a Conversation about Writing and Performing Identity with Cuban-American Performer/Playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez

Saturday 30 April 2016
Boston, MA, United States

ArtChangeUS@ArtsEmerson, and HowlRound presented Claiming Your Space—a conversation about writing and performing identity with acclaimed performer/playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez moderated by Dr. P. Carl livestreamed from Boston on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 30 April at 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 20:00 GMT / 9 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv

Zahdi Dates and Poppies
Essay

Zahdi Dates and Poppies

Noh Drama at Boston University

30 April 2016

A conversation with Theatre Nohgaku members about noh theatre and their production of Zahdi Dates and Poppies.