Bertie Ferdman interviews Ilan Bachrach, founder and Artistic Director of Mass Live Arts, a festival of contemporary and experimental performance in Great Barrington, MA.
In this installment, David Dudley talks with Goddard’s Elena Georgiou about the benefits of earning an MFA in a low-residency model, and how that can help shape a writer’s voice.
Nashville Repertory Theatre’s Ingram New Works Festival presented the latest new plays born from our Ingram New Works Project’s playwrights lab livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on 11, 12, 15, and 16 May. Tweet your questions/comments to @nashrep using #howlround to participate in the talkback with the playwright immediately following each reading.
Madilynn Garcia and Mahalia Dinglasan close out their series about The Cohen New Works Festival, sharing what they found and what questions still remain.
Indiana Repertory Theatre and Childsplay presents three conversations from Write Now—a national effort to advocate for playwrights and to promote the development of new work for young audiences—livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 4 May and Tuesday 5 May. In Twitter, use #howlround & #tya. Follow @HowlRoundTV for updates.
The twelve plays to be showcased at Carnaval 2015 are just the tip of the iceberg. The totality of the plays submitted for consideration represents the depth and breadth of artistic ambition within the Latina/o theatremaking community.
Madilynn Garcia and Mahalia Dinglasan continue in their sharing of The Cohen New Works Festival, explaining the use of specificity, context, and exploration.
South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California presented the playwrights panel Who Do You Write For? livestreamed on Sunday 26 April at 9 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 16:00 GMT / 5 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, use #howlround.
The William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas presented The 34th William Inge Theater Festival and Conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 17 April and on Sunday 19 April.
The 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presented The Path to Production livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 10 April at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:00 GMT / 6 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, use #HumanaFest and follow @ATLouisville.
University of Texas Students Producing the Next Generation of New Work
9 April 2015
In the first post of this mini-blog series, two students at the University of Texas at Austin share the excitement surrounding The Cohen New Works Festival.
Commons producer Jonathan Norton chats with Anne Bothwell about Stagger Lee: Making a Musical, a digital storytelling project tracking the development of Will Power’s new musical.
Andrew Saito explores what being a resident playwright has afforded his rewriting process as he works on Mount Misery, a world where Donald Rumsfeld and Frederick Douglass coexist.
In this installation, Liane Tomasetti explores how tricky a first reading of a new site-specific play is, and how important it is to listen to all the community members involved.
The 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presented The Role of Storytelling in the 21st Century with Anne Bogart livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 28 March at 9:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:30 a.m. EDT (New York) / 14:40 GMT (London). In Twitter, use #HumanaFest and follow @ATLouisville.
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.
