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Essay
Black Survival and Cyclical Fate in Hang Time
by Ciaran Short
4 June 2026
Essay
Arts Curators Reaching Back, Carrying Forward
by Martine Dennewald
7 May 2026
Essay
A Sojourner Speaks
by Daniel Alexander Jones
6 May 2026
Essay
11 November 2015

In the fourth installment, Michael Lueger interviews Archivist Morgen Stevens-Garmon about the intersection of theatre and museum archives in her career.

Video
Saturday 7 November 2015
New York, NY, United States

Artichoke Dance in New York City presented a Climate Change Theatre Action event with eight new theatrical works as part of ArtCOP21—worldwide performances bringing awareness to and fostering dialogue around climate change—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 7 November at 8 p.m. EST (New York) / 7 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 5 p.m. PST (Los Angeles). In Twitter use #artcop21#ArtichokeDance, and follow @ArtichokeDance and @HowlRoundTV.

Essay

Tourette Syndrome in the Theatre

8 November 2015

Actor Gardiner Comfort discusses his experiences as a performer and audience member with Tourette Syndrome, and how it has inspired aspects of his solo show The Elephant in Every Room I Enter.

Video
Saturday 7 November 2015.
New York, NY, United States

The Art of Justice: Articulating an Ethos and Aesthetic of the Movement presented its first convening in a three-part series of artist roundtables, livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRoundTV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 7 November. To join the conversation via Twitter use hashtag #TheArtofJustice and follow @cccadi and @nyuartspolitics.

Podcast

Kara Lindsay

5 November 2015

Today I talk with Kara Lindsay, currently playing Glinda in Wicked on Broadway. We talk Broadway dreams, audition nightmares and coming to terms with the ebbs and flow of the business.

Essay

Hamilton, Perfect Arrangement, Who’s Your Baghdaddy? and More

5 November 2015

Jonathan Mandell explores how several recent works on New York Stages portray history and the questions they raise. 

Video
Monday 2 November 2015
New York, NY, United States

Playwrights Horizons in New York City presented the Hir Symposium moderated by Hir playwright Taylor Mac livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 2 November at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York). In Twitter, follow @PHnyc@howlroundtv—and use hashtag #howlround.

Essay
3 November 2015

Effy Redman on Love, Sex, and Death in the Amazon by Robert Murphy, the inaugural production of Collider Theater Company, in New York City.

Video

A playwriting masterclass

Monday 2 November 2015
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 November 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
29 October 2015

Donald Sanborn on the evolution of Gigi from novella to film, film to stage, and stage and to stage once more.

Essay
28 October 2015

Stephanie Barton-Fracas, artistic director of Nicu’s Spoon, New York’s first and oldest inclusive theatre, talks about inclusivity as a necessary reflection of our current society.

Video
Monday 26 October 2015
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 26 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).

 

Essay
26 October 2015

Daniel Gallant discusses expensive ticket costs and advocates more financial accessibility for arts events.

Video
Sunday 25 October 2015
New York, NY, United States

The Women in the Arts & Media Coalition and all its member organizations celebrated the winner, honored finalists, and finalists of the 2015 Collaboration Award, designed to encourage professional women in the arts and media from different specializations to work collaboratively on an arts or media project, livestreamed at howlround.tv on Sunday 25 October at 3 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @WomenArtsMedia and @HowlRoundTV and use hashtags #CollabAwards and #howlround.

Essay
23 October 2015

Producer Sean Williams talks with the four lead actors in The Honeycomb Trilogy.

Essay

Fun Home’s Growing Pains

22 October 2015

Manuel Betancourt on the development journey of Tony-winning Broadway musical Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori.

Essay
21 October 2015

Chicago-based theatre practitioner and scholar Eli Van Sickel dispells the prevalent notion of Spring Awakening being the first deaf production on Broadway—it’s not.

Essay

The Understated Inclusivity of The Golden Drum Year

20 October 2015

Brett Aresco on Radical Evolution’s production of The Golden Drum Year by Beto O’Byrne.

Video
Sunday 18 October 2015
New York, NY, United States

 

La MaMa presented a performance of Teatro Patologico’s Medea directed by Dario D’Ambrosi livestreamed from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 18 October at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 20:00 GMT / 21:00 BST (London) / 22:00 CEST (Rome). 

Essay

Working for a Living Wage

16 October 2015

Matthew Sekellick explores what New York’s proposed minimum wage increase would mean for theatre artists.

Podcast

Bethany Caputo

9 October 2015

Bethany Caputo is a prolific stage and commercial actor, as well as an extraordinary teacher. Today we talk Michael Chekhov, the need to love auditioning, and how “falling off the beam” can sometimes be the very best thing for your career.

Essay

Going Green with Radical Evolution and The Movement Theatre Company

9 October 2015

Katie Naka discusses the Go Green pop-up experience in Harlem and advocates experimenting with urban green spaces as venues.

Essay

Cultural Appropriation 101

8 October 2015

Director Desdemona Chiang provides an overview of Asian American discrimination and cultural appropriation in the US and argues that there is no way to divorce The Mikado from this problematic history. 

Essay
8 October 2015

Martha Steketee explores the lens and artistry of Jody Christopherson in “Necessary Exposure The Female Playwright Project: Portraits of Playwrights Who Identify as Female” in New York City.

Essay
7 October 2015

Victor Maog interviews Leah Nanako Winkler on her response to the controversy around NYGASP's The Mikado.

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