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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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Jenny Rachel Weiner

21 October 2016

Jenny Rachel Weiner writes about her residency at Roundabout Theatre Company.

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Caroline V. McGraw

21 October 2016

Caroline V. McGraw writes about her residency at Page 73.

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Jaclyn Backhaus

21 October 2016

Jaclyn Backhaus writes about her residency at Clubbed Thumb.

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Rachel Bonds

21 October 2016

Rachel Bonds writes about her residency at Ars Nova.

Video
Monday 17 October 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Lark in New York City presented Meet the Writers, the public kick-off event of the 23rd Annual Playwrights’ Week livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 October at 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 23:00 GMT.

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A playwriting masterclass

Monday 17 October 2016
New York City, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 October at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

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Part Two

16 October 2016

The second dispatch from Team Awesome Robot on producing independent theatre in New York City.

Video
Sunday 9 October 2016
New York, NY, United States

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City presented a performance of The God Projekt by Lone Wolf Tribe livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 9 October at 4pm EDT (New York) / 20:00 UTC / 9pm BST (London) / 22:00 CEST (Berlin) / 1pm PDT (Los Angeles). On Twitter, follow @LaMaMaETC@HowlRoundTV and use #howlround.

Video
Saturday 8 October 2016
New York City, NY, United States

The Season 4 Finale of the musical theatre podcast "Something New" livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 8 October at 4:00 a.m. PST (Portland) / 7:00 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround#SomethingNew#SN4

Essay
8 October 2016

Summer Banks talks with Jaclyn Backhaus about bringing the story of Men On Boats to life on stage without any men.

Video
Wednesday 5 October through Friday 7 October 2016
New York City, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented the Prelude 2016 festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based and peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 5 October through Friday 7 October 2016. See the livestream schedule below. Share your thoughts on Twitter and Instagram with #howlround@PRELUDENYC, and #PRELUDE16

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Does Each Serve the Other? Presidential Candidates on Stage

6 October 2016

Jonathan Mandell looks at some recent plays that explore this wackiest of election seasons in novel ways, and asks: Is mockery proper...or even possible?

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Hallie Flanagan in the Twenty-first Century

4 October 2016

Amy Brady interviews Michael Arve about Dangerous Theatre, a piece he’s directing based on Hallie Flanagan’s 1938 testimony to the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities.

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a proposal

3 October 2016

Edward Einhorn reflects on the failures of the current awards system for independent theatre in New York, and proposes a solution. 

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Miniature Interviews with Three Audio Storytellers

2 October 2016

Emma Wiseman presents musings on audio storytelling and the world of radio from Cecil Baldwin, Jon Earle, and Audrey Quinn, three New York-based audiophiles.

Video
Tuesday 27 September to Friday 30 September 2016
New York, NY, United States

Samuel FrenchPlaybill, and HowlRound presented #IdentityWeek, a free four-day panel event exploring racial, cultural, sexual and gender identity in the theatre livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Tuesday 27 September to Friday 30 September.

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Tuesday 27 September 2016
New York City, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented a conversation with Romeo Castellucci, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 27 September 2016 at 2 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5 p.m. EDT (New York).  Share your thoughts on Twitter and Instagram with #howlround.

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22 September 2016

David Dudley on Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, directed by David Cromer at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City.

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21 September 2016

Catherine M. Young on Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s production of Molière and Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, directed by Denis Podalydès’at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.

Video
Tuesday 20 September 2016
New York City, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented the lecture The Future of Performance in the Era of Global Surveillance, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 20 September 2016 at 9 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York). Share your thoughts on Twitter and Instagram with #howlround.

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An Interview with Brenda Liu and Rui Yang

16 September 2016

In this last installment, Playwright Kate Mulley interviews her Chinese classmates Brenda Liu and Rui Yang about their experience as Visiting Scholars at Columbia University.

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“Political Correctness” and the Question of Socially Responsible Theatre

13 September 2016

Playwright Zoe Kamil writes about casting a play of hers, and the difficult conversations that arose because she didn’t specify the race of certain characters.

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13 September 2016

Renée Camus reports on this summer’s Song, Stage, and Screen Conference in New York City.

Podcast

You Naughty, Naughty Men: Joshua William Gelb’s New Reimagining of The Black Crook

12 September 2016

Michael Lueger talks with director and librettist Joshua William Gelb about The Black Crook, considered by some to be the first musical.

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12 September 2016

Playwright Cherry Lou Sy discusses Vineyard Theatre’s production of Indecent, reflecting on the culture of fear and the queer artists who have influenced her.

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