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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
Video
Monday 2 May 2016
New York, NY, United States

The League of Professional Theatre Women presented the Award Celebration & Big Mingle from New York City livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 2 May from 6:30 p.m. EDT-10 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3:30 p.m. PDT-7 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). On Twitter, use @LPTWomen and #BigMingle. 

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A playwriting masterclass.

Monday 2 May 2016
New York, 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 2 May 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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A Dangerous Dynamic

30 April 2016

Holly L. Derr deconstructs a new dynamic in her theatre department.

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Can the Playwright be Wrong?

29 April 2016

Alex Goldberg wonders if it's possible for a playwright to be wrong about an aspect of his or her own play, and describes a fraught production process.

Essay
28 April 2016

Playwright Melinda Lopez shares her experience buying tickets to see Hamilton, and addresses the cost of watching a Broadway show versus the cost of caring for her mother.

Essay
28 April 2016

Marcina Zaccaria speaks with Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick as he approaches his ninety-second birthday.

Video
Monday 25 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

You’re invited to join a post-reading discussion with Sarah RuhlGeshe Tashi DorjeeTenzin Gelek, and President of Tibet Fund Rinchen Dharlo livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 25 April at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 01:00 GMT (Tuesday, April 26).  In Twitter use #oldestboybenefit

Essay
26 April 2016

Playwright Natalie Sacks shares her post-graduate experience of working various theatre jobs, her take on the “starving artist” model, and her journey to writing her first play since college.

Essay

A Defense of Smart People

26 April 2016

Anchuli Felicia King on the Second Stage production of Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People in New York.

Video
Monday 25 April 2016
New York, 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 25 April 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).

Essay
21 April 2016

Marisela Treviño Orta interviews Javier Muñoz, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s alternate in Hamilton.

Essay
19 April 2016

Ellen Mareneck on David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord, directed by David Hyde Pierce at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. 

Video
Monday 18 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented a reading of Paula Vogel's Indecent livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 18 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York). 

Video
Saturday 16 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Playwrights HorizonsAntlia Pneumatica Symposium: Where the Playwright Asks the Questions with Anne Washburn livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 16 April at 21:00 BST (London) / 20:00 GMT / 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 1 p.m. PDT (Vancouver). In Twitter, use #howlround

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Lessons from BOOMERANG

15 April 2016

Playwright Will Arbery shares his experience working with BOOMERANG Dance Company and how movement informs his writing process.

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The Resurrected Corpus of Ivo van Hove’s A View From the Bridge

12 April 2016

Olivia Rubino-Finn on the Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo van Hove. 

Video
Monday 11 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Spalding Gray: A Celebration of his Life and Work livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 11 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 23:30 BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

Video

A playwriting masterclass

Monday 11 April 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 11 April 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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Performers Sound Off About Street Harassment

10 April 2016

Carey Pucell reports on the harassment faced by women street performers in NYC and the preponderance of street harassment of women in our society.

Essay
7 April 2016

Have jokey depictions of elections on stage and screen helped cause a joke of a real-life presidential campaign?  Jonathan Mandell visits two experimental theatre projects that are tackling this year’s presidential election in serious and intriguing ways.

Video

Safe Harbors Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective, La MaMa, and CultureHub

Wednesday 6 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

La MaMa in New York City presented Safe Harbors Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective at Culturehub's Arts/Culture: Social Justice and Social Change discussion livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 6 April at 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11:30 p.m.-4 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. MDT (Alberta) / 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AKDT (Alaska) / 6:30 a.m.-11 a.m. HAST (Hawaii) / 16:30-21:00 GMT / 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. BST (London) / 18:30-23:00 CEST (Brussels). On Twitter, use #howlround and follow @LaMamaETC@CultureHubNYC, and @HowlRoundTV

Essay
6 April 2016

Scholar Caroline Heafey reports on Fordham University’s Waking the Feminists symposium and the quest for gender parity in Irish theatre.

Video
Monday 4 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented a discussion The New Black Fest: Revolutionary Writing livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 4 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 23:30 BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

Video
Monday 4 April 2016
New York, 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 4 April 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).

Essay
1 April 2016

Trevor Boffone interviews Hamilton’s music director, orchestrator, and co-arranger Alex Lacamoire about his journey as an artist, his Cuban heritage, and collaborating with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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