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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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26 March 2015

The author explores playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adaptation of The Octoroon, called An Octoroon, and its depiction of race and gender onstage. 

Video

A playwriting masterclass.

Monday 23 March 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 23 March 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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Dramatizing Our American Identity

22 March 2015

Pregones Theater and Roadside Theater review their twenty-one-year artistic collaboration and their upcoming Off-Broadway production of BETSY!.

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18 March 2015

Noemi de la Puente outlines her process of writing a musical comedy and the decision to self produce.

Video

A playwriting masterclass.

Monday 9 March 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 9 March 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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Ten Lessons Theatre Can Learn from Golf, Knishes, Teens, Tevye, and Twitter, But Not Termites

8 March 2015

The question from TEDxBroadway 2015: What ideas about theatre can we learn from people who may never have been inside one?

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A Rasic Experience

6 March 2015

Scholar and theater practitioner Erin Mee, considers how by giving time-space to the sensoria, immersive, and interactive productions are inherently rasic.

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Five Ways Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip-Hopped History Musical Breaks New Ground

5 March 2015

There is a sense that this piece somehow transcends theatre even as it embodies it—or, as Hamilton puts it: “This is not a moment, it’s a movement.”

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Christopher Shinn at The New School’s MFA Playwriting Program

3 March 2015

In this installation, David Dudley interviews Christopher Shinn of The New School’s MFA playwriting program about how this educational option works.

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Herbert Hoover’s Comeback in Leather

3 March 2015

Martha Steketee speaks with playwright Sean Cunningham about Here’s Hoover! The Historic Herbert Hoover 2014 Comeback Special, which recently concluded a brief run in New York City. Herbert Hoover’s return, replete with leather, works like gangbusters.

Essay
26 February 2015

Dreams on the open sea are part of a larger narrative as Natasha Lee Martin, an actress, director, and teacher, performs in Confessions of a Synesthetic Sailor at TheaterLab in New York City.

Video
Wednesday 25 February 2015
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild of America and the Society of Composers and Lyricists presented an evening with two of the musical theatre's most exciting collaborative teams: Tony winners and multiple Grammy, Tony, Golden Globe, and Oscar nominees Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and Rodgers, Roth, Larson, Kleban, and Ebb award-winners Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 25 February at 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 23:30 GMT (London).

 

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Prayers of Halley Feiffer

24 February 2015

Martha Steketee explores the development and evolution of I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard with playwright Halley Feiffer. The play spans five years and two opening nights, features substance abuse, plenty of familial debate, and one attempt at reconciliation.

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23 February 2015

Native voices week continues! August: Osage County’s Kimberly Guerrero explores her work on the show, and what lesson the American theatre can learn from it.

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Legitimizing the Art of the Actor for 125 Years

15 February 2015

Martha Steketee looks at The Players, an 125-year-old club for actors and those that love them, and spends some time with all its history and archives.

Video
Thursday 12 February 2015
New York, NY, United States

Roadside Theater and Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater presented a conversation about BETSY! The Appalachian-Puerto Rican Musical  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 February at 7 p.m. EST (New York) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Los Angeles).

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Do Taylor Mac et al Tickle or Terrify?

5 February 2015

"Audience participation" is a vague term, like much of theatrical terminology; it has come to mean different things to different people... What happens when the audience participates by becoming performers—without volunteering to do so?

Video
Sunday 1 February 2015
New York City, NY, United States

The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture presented The People's State of the Union—2015 Poetic Address to the Nation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 1 February at 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 23:30 GMT (London). Livestreaming by CultureHub at Bowery Poetry in New York City. 

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18 January 2015

Avant-garde performer and director Paul Zimet offers a brief overview of his role in Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theater and his forty-year history with Talking Band.

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13 January 2015

Some could argue that a play like Burq Off is not the right place to begin to understand the world of the Muslim Diaspora in Europe... But Manzoor herself provides some of that context, throwing statistics into her monologues almost as if her drama were a form of journalism.

Video
Sunday 11 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

Camille A. Brown presented The Gathering 2015 livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 11 January at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York).

Video
9 January to 13 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) welcomed performing arts professionals and enthusiasts around the world to join us remotely for select plenary events featuring luminaries from the industry and for professional development sessions sharing best practices from the field during our APAP|NYC 2015 conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from 9 January to 13 January 2015.

Video
Thursday 8 January to Sunday 11 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

 

The Under the Radar Festival 2015 at the Public Theater in New York City presented the festival's Professional Symposium and two Culturebot Conversations livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 8 January to Sunday 11 January.

Video
Wednesday 7 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

Join us for the symposium and official launch of the Cultural Mobility Funding Guide for the USA: Theatre, Performing Arts, and Dance—a free and user-friendly guide to funding for international exchange for artists traveling to and from the USA livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 7 January from 10 a.m. EST to 5:30 p.m. EST. In Twitter, direct comments @SegalCenter and use #USCulturalMobility

Essay
23 December 2014

Could the theater offer to both theater artists and theatergoers a kind of substitute for the awe they felt as children towards a religion that they no longer can as readily accept intellectually or morally?

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