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Black Survival and Cyclical Fate in Hang Time
by Ciaran Short
4 June 2026
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Arts Curators Reaching Back, Carrying Forward
by Martine Dennewald
7 May 2026
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A Sojourner Speaks
by Daniel Alexander Jones
6 May 2026
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Creating Ensemble Theatre and Community with Senior Citizens

19 August 2017

Ash Marinaccio shares her experience working with seniors through a four-month residency with the Queens Theatre in New York City.

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16 August 2017

David Dudley talks with Maria Striar and Michael Bulger of Clubbed Thumb about how they curated a program directly after the election.

Podcast

From West Side Story to Wicked: Dr. Stacy Wolf on Feminism & the Broadway Musical

7 August 2017

Dr. Stacy Wolf reveals the hidden feminist history of the Broadway musical in this discussion of her book Changed for Good.

Essay

Dramatizing the Divide Between Law Enforcement and Community

3 August 2017

Jonathan Mandell writes about Theater of War’s production of Antigone in Ferguson in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Essay
31 July 2017

MJ Kaufman writes about the decision not to see To the End of the Land ​at Lincoln Center. 

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Where Hip-Hop Theatre Meets Opera

27 July 2017

Maelsha Taylor talks with Ise Lyfe and Gill Sotu about their spoken-word opera Ordinary Magic

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Raja Feather Kelly and the Imprint of Pop

25 July 2017

The Feath3r Theory post-ballet theatre musical about the influence of pop culture on how we live.

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The Cost of Discipleship

20 July 2017

In his latest installment, Tom Block explores how Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work could impact theatre. 

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A Conversation with Jenny Giering

8 July 2017

In the final installment of the series, Donald Sanborn III talks with composer Jenny Giering about her experience and creative process.

Video
Saturday 5 July 2017
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Urban Bush Women presented the 2017 Summer Leadership Institute Culminating Performances livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network Saturday 5 July at 5:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 4:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) and 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

 

 

Essay
30 June 2017

Brett Aresco looks at personal comedy theatre and recent shows by Neal Brennan and Mike Birbiglia.

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27 June 2017

A fairy tale for our modern age? A consideration of Anastasia by Amanda Prahl.

Essay
23 June 2017

Elaine Avila talks with Saudade Theatre Artistic Directors Filipe Valle Costa and Diogo Martins about their work. 

Essay
22 June 2017

What happens to Nora after she slams that door? Cristina Sanza considers A Doll’s House, Part 2.

Essay

Sorting through Building the Wall

4 June 2017

Jonathan Mandell compares the countrywide reaction to the anti-Trump play Building the Wall with its reception in New York, where it's closing a month early.

Video
Thursday 1 June to Saturday 3 June 2017
Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

The SITI Company in Saratoga Springs, New York presented Transformation through Training: a Symposium on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training from Skidmore College livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Thursday 1 June to Saturday 3 June 2017.

Essay
1 June 2017

Thomas Dolan discusses the need for Middle Eastern and Islamic theatre artists and decision-makers to be involved in the creation and production of work about their communities.

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Virtual Reality and the Trump Effect

31 May 2017

Director and dramaturg Linda Lombardi discusses Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies the Bone, and examines how changes to our political climate effect audience reaction.

Video
Tuesday 30 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented an artist talk with Tadashi Suzuki livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 30 May at 12:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9:00 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay
28 May 2017

Sarah Ruhl on The Lilly Awards, criticism, and the power of mothers.

Essay

 The Drama in the Data

26 May 2017

Holly L. Derr looks at ethnodrama and Her Opponent, a restaging of excerpts of the 2016 presidential debates with gender-reversed casting.

Video
Monday 22 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Lilly Awards proudly presented The 8th Annual Lilly Awards, honoring women of distinction in the American theater livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 22 May, at 5 p.m. EDT (New York) / 4 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Use #LillyAwards and #howlround on Twitter. 

Video
Thursday 18 May 2017
New York City, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Dramaturgy in the Making with Katalin Trencsényi, Peter Eckersall, Bertie Ferdman livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 18 May at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

on Interpreting Classic Drama

17 May 2017

Director Andrew Watkins writes about getting to the heart of Strindberg's problematic classic. 

Video
Monday 15 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented 50 Years of Theatre of the Ridiculous​ livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 May at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

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