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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
Appropriating Laughter
Essay

Appropriating Laughter

What Do You Mean, I’m Funny?

18 November 2015

Jonathan Mastro responds Don Aucoin’s recent Boston Globe article about audible audience responses.

Why I Will Never Produce Another All-Female Outdoor Show Again
Essay

Why I Will Never Produce Another All-Female Outdoor Show Again

9 November 2015

Erin Butcher writes about the difficult experiences she faced producing a show in a public park with an all-female cast and crew. 

Impulse and Desire
Essay

Impulse and Desire

Finding Humanity in Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues

7 November 2015

Emerson College student Andrew Siañez-De La O writes about RareWork’s Theatre Company’s production of Caridad Svich’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Mans Blues.

Conversation Interrogating Whiteness with Author Walter Mosley
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Conversation Interrogating Whiteness with Author Walter Mosley

Wednesday 4 November 2015
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson presented the conversation Interrogating Whiteness livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 4 November at 4 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York). In Twitter, use hashtag #namingourselves and follow @ArtsEmerson and @HowlRoundTV.

Living the Dream Podcast # 7
Podcast

Living the Dream Podcast # 7

Tasso Feldman

22 October 2015

This week I’m speaking to actor Tasso Feldman. We talk about acting books and their traps, the difference between stage and screen acting.

Conversation: Exploring the Difference between Real and Imagined Bodies on Stage
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Conversation: Exploring the Difference between Real and Imagined Bodies on Stage

Tuesday 13 October 2015
Boston, MA, United States

 

ArtsEmerson in Boston presented a public dialogue Exploring the Difference between Real and Imagined Bodies on Stage livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Tuesday 13 October at 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 23:00 GMT. 

The Constant Gardener
Essay

The Constant Gardener

Melinda Lopez Reflects on Her Mellon Residency and Repotting

12 October 2015

Commons Producer Miranda Craigwell interviews Melinda Lopez about her experience as Playwright-in Residence at Huntington Theatre Company. 

Trouble with the Classics
Essay

Trouble with the Classics

A Moon for the Misbegotten at Williamstown

6 October 2015

Michael Lueger on Gordon Edelstein’s production of A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.

Living the Dream Podcast # 4
Podcast

Living the Dream Podcast # 4

Seth Lepore

1 October 2015

In this podcast series, Matthew Gray interviews all kinds of actors to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest rates, reduced network pick-ups, and a dying regional theatre circuit. Find it in iTunes.

Living the Dream Podcast # 3
Podcast

Living the Dream Podcast # 3

Maurice Emmanuel Parent

24 September 2015

In this podcast series, Matthew Gray interviews all kinds of actors to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest rates, reduced network pick-ups, and a dying regional theatre circuit. Find it in iTunes.

Greater Boston Theatre Board Convening
Video

Greater Boston Theatre Board Convening

Saturday 19 September 2015
Boston, MA, United States

HowlRound presented the Greater Boston Theatre Board Convening livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 19 September. In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv.

Slowing Down for Success
Essay

Slowing Down for Success

1 September 2015

Melissa Bergstrom discusses her journey toward accepting a personal definition of success as a theatre artist.

How a Season Comes Together
Essay

How a Season Comes Together

29 August 2015

ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower shares the process behind programming the company’s 2015/2016 season.

Your Guide to Theatre Education
Essay

Your Guide to Theatre Education

Double Edge Theatre Company

10 August 2015

In this installment, David Dudley interviews four members of Double Edge Theatre Company about the company’s unique approach to training and living.

Pause, Move Forward
Essay

Pause, Move Forward

Physicality and Inner Strength in Colossal

28 July 2015

Spencer Shannon on Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker, produced by Boston's Company One Theatre.

Preparing and Performing Site-Specific Immersive Work
Essay

Preparing and Performing Site-Specific Immersive Work

22 July 2015

Liane Tomasetti shares some words of wisdom following the performances of the site-specific, immersive piece Animating the James and Ann Whithall House at Red Bank Battlefield.

How PC Is Too PC? A look at trigger warnings and audience overprotection in Little Black Dress INK’s 2014 ONSTAGE Festival
Essay

How PC Is Too PC? A look at trigger warnings and audience overprotection in Little Black Dress INK’s 2014 ONSTAGE Festival

24 June 2015

Tiffany Antone reconsiders the decision to include a trigger warning on playwright Jennie Webb’s “little rape comedy.”

Being Real
Essay

Being Real

A. Rey Pamatmat and the New American Identity

23 June 2015

Spencer Shannon on the critical reception of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible things I do and Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them in Boston.

Festival Theatre
Essay

Festival Theatre

Ilan Bachrach on Mass Live Arts

16 June 2015

Bertie Ferdman interviews Ilan Bachrach, founder and Artistic Director of Mass Live Arts, a festival of contemporary and experimental performance in Great Barrington, MA.

Self-Production
Essay

Self-Production

The Viable Route For Playwrights

23 May 2015

Playwright and co-founder of Boston Public Works Theater Company John Greiner-Ferris discusses the rewards and challenges that have come with self-producing.

Introducing Adewunmi Oke, HowlRound Fellow!
Essay

Introducing Adewunmi Oke, HowlRound Fellow!

15 May 2015

Welcome the new HowlRound Fellow, Adewunmi Oke! Adewunmi joins us in July, and will play an integral role in the HowlRound team.

The Write Stuff
Essay

The Write Stuff

Exploring Gloucester Stage’s New Playwriting Apprentice Program

9 May 2015

Gloucester Stage’s Executive Managing Director Jon Wojciechowski discusses the process and philosophy behind the company’s new playwriting apprenticeship.

Performance of The Service Workers Project: Contra La Corriente/Against the Current
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Performance of The Service Workers Project: Contra La Corriente/Against the Current

Sunday 3 May 2015 
Boston, MA, United States

Brown Bag Theatre Company presented The Service Workers Project: Contra La Corriente/Against the Current: a new play with original music inspired by the service workers at the University of California, Irvine livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 3 May at 8 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9 p.m. MDT (Albuquerque) / 10 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 11 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @HowlRoundTV

Q&A and Reading with Poet/Author Claudia Rankine
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Q&A and Reading with Poet/Author Claudia Rankine

Wednesday 29 April 2015
Boston, MA, United States

 

The Fresh Sound Foundation and Emerson College's Office of the Arts and Writing, Literature & Publishing presented a Q&A session and a book reading by poet and author Claudia Rankine livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 29 April 2015.

New Plays by the Numbers
Essay

New Plays by the Numbers

Is Boston a Hidden Hub of New Work?

20 March 2015

Patrick Gabridge gives a run down of the results of the New England New Play Alliance's study on new play development and attendance in the Greater Boston region.