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Video
Thursday 13 December 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild of America presented a songwriting master class with composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa as part of the DG Conservatory series livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 December 2012 at 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 23:00-oo:30 GMT (London).

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Video
Sunday 18 November 2012
New York, NY, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival & INTAR Theatre presented The New York One-Minute Play Festival of Latino Voices livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 18 November 2012.

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Video
Friday 16 November 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild presented a symposium on L3C and the Arts: Understanding the Potential of Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3Cs) in Arts and Culture, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 November 2012 from 11 a.m. PST - 3 p.m. PST / 1 p.m. CST - 5 p.m. CST / 2 p.m. EST - 6 p.m. EST / 19:00 GMT - 23:00 GMT.

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Video
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild of America presented a seminar for composers and orchestrators on topics including notation, orchestrating, and arranging, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 13 November at 3:30 p.m. PST / 5:30 p.m. CST / 6:30 p.m. EST / 11:30 p.m. GMT. For further conversation with Dramatists Guild, follow them on twitter @dramatistsguild.

Portrait of Ed Memphis.
Essay
1 November 2012

Gabriel Jason Dean chats with Ed Sylvanus Iskandar.

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Video
Tuesday 23 October 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatist Guild of America presented a workshop on improv techniques with Jeffrey Sweet livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 23 October at 2:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)/ 4:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 21:30 GMT / 10:30 p.m. BST (London).

Times Square.
Essay

If You Can Make It Here...

6 October 2012

This month's letter asks the question: What do I have to do to live in NYC, and should I even try?

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Video
Monday 17 September 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild presented a conversation between Moisés Kaufman and Rajiv Joseph livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 September 2012 at 21:30–23:00 GMT / 10:30 p.m.–12:00 a.m. BST / 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m. EDT / 4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. CDT / 2:30 p.m.–4 p.m. PDT.

Several people stand outside a shop with a sign that says "Write Out Front."
Essay

A Playwright Happening

6 September 2012

Micheline Auger reports about her project, Write Out Front, which places playwrights in the Drama Book Store's window for a mini "residency."

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Video
Monday 16 July 2012
New York, NY, United States

New Dramatists held an informational meeting regarding the admissions process livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 16 July 2012 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. PDT / 2 p.m.-3 p.m. MDT / 3 p.m.-4 p.m. CDT / 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT.

An illustration in traditional African style depicting three people dancing.
Essay
29 June 2012

Erin Washington discusses her relationship with Harlem and the cultivation of HowlRound's Harlem series.

A logo for the Hip Hop Theatre Festival.
Essay

Making Space in Harlem

29 June 2012

The mission is to bring stories by and about the hiphop generation. Now Hip-hop Theatre Festival is finished with the nomadic lifestyle and have a space to call our own.

 

Essay
28 June 2012

Ezra Ezzard talks about the rich history and bright future of Harlem, and the necessity of keeping it an affordable place to make art and develop artistic voices.

Podcast

J.J. El-Far of Harlem Arts Festival

28 June 2012

Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: J.J. El-Far of Harlem Arts Festival.

Essay

Conversation with Ty Jones

28 June 2012

Actor-Producer Bridgit Antoinette Evans in conversation with Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Essay

"my place"

27 June 2012

A poem for Harlem about living and playing there no matter when home may be.

Essay
26 June 2012

After connecting the top rap albums to playwriting, it is time to look at how Harlem is theatre.

Essay

In Search of the Artistic Home

26 June 2012

Jamie Gahlon has asked theatre artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Radha Blank continues this series.

Essay
25 June 2012

Dominique Morriseau talks about her personal journey to Harlem, how its rich literary history paves the way for her writing, and the need to protect it from gentrificaiton.

The letter H stylized as Howlround's original logo.
Essay

Harlem in the Present Tense

25 June 2012

This week on HowlRound is dedicated to Harlem and Harlem artists, so the topic will be about contemporary Harlem and the theater artists who comprise that community. Refer to Jonathan McCrory's article "Who Is Occupying Harlem" as a starting point.

Headshot of Jonathan McCrory.
Essay
25 June 2012

Jonathan McCrory introduces the Harlem Week series with a preview of the history and organizations that make uptown Manhattan what it is.

Essay

In Search of the Artistic Home

19 June 2012

Jamie Gahlon has asked theatre artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Teresa Eyring continues this series.

A clock labelled "Naked Angels" with the word "Tuesdays" beneath it. The clock reads 9:00.
Essay
18 June 2012

Andy Donald talks about Tuesdays@9, Naked Angels' iniative to welcome playwrights to a truly open submissions policy, where they can have a shot at getting their work produced.

Several rows of seats in a theater.
Essay
16 June 2012

Heather Violanti profiles Horse Trade Theater Group, a bold proposal for how to make theater more accessible to entry-level artists.

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