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LOAM, a Transformation Through Eco-Theatre
by Cara Hagan
22 April 2025
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Escalating Drama Department Cuts and Mergers Impact Us All
by Jacqueline E. Lawton, Rachel Pollock
9 September 2024
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Regional Stories, Regional Artists, Regional Audiences
A Conversation about Place-Based Theatre
by Lauren Smith
6 November 2018
A close up of hands in the dirt and plants.
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22 April 2025

The solo dance theatre piece LOAM adopts the balance, duration, and repetition of soil. Cara Hagan details the research questions and generative processes that she used to shape LOAM—and her own life.

A woman in a black hat cuts fabric in a costume shop.
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9 September 2024

Theatre departments now face steady, targeted closures and downsizing nationwide. Jacqueline E. Lawton and Rachel Pollock speak to professors impacted by these cuts and lay out actions to preserve theatre education at the university level. 

person singing onstage
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A Conversation about Place-Based Theatre

6 November 2018

Lauren Smith sits down with Triad Stage’s Preston Lane and PlayMakers Repertory’s Vivienne Benesch to talk about regionalism in theatre.

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8 May 2018

Rachael Carnes discusses organizing Playwrights Say Never Again to School Shootings, a new anthology of work on gun violence by nineteen playwrights with readings all over the United States.

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25 September 2017

North Carolina based theatremaker Katy Koop reflects on the impact of the Women’s Theatre Festival on Raleigh’s theatre community since its launch in 2016.  

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A Conversation between Director June Guralnick and Playwright Suzanne Bradbeer

18 June 2017

Conversation between director June Guralnick and playwright Suzanne Bradbeer about The God Game, plays about faith post-election, and the division of church and state.

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Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America

20 May 2017

Yuko Kurahashi talks about the Collidescope 3.0 project, which uses movement, video projections, and soundscape to explore black and white relations in American history.

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6 October 2016

Andrew Jacobs discusses his senior theatre project in college, sharing his observations about what it means to create and maintain a socially responsible theatre on a local level. 

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8 August 2016

Kimmothy Cole discusses strategies for theatre companies to invest in the local communities they serve.

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Dramaturgy in Undergraduate Theatre Programs

15 May 2016

Jeanmarie Higgins, Professor of Dramaturgy at UNC Charlotte, presents strategies for decentralizing and distributing the dramaturg's role among groups of students and faculty who collaborate on a variety of research-driven tasks.

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3 October 2015

PhD candidate Daphnie Sicre writes about her experience presenting at the Black Theatre Conference.

Photo from Vogue Men's Fashions.
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Urban Garden pursues other white men in Vogue Men's Fashions

29 August 2013

Byron Woods writes about Vogue Men's Fashions, and the controversial idea that white men are being isolated and alienated from greater society.

Video
Tuesday 7 August through Sunday 12 August 2012
Arden, NC, United States

Alternate ROOTS presented their 36th Annual Business Meeting & Artists Retreat: "Traditions," livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Tuesday 7 August through Sunday 12 August 2012 in Arden, North Carolina.

Candid photo of Kashif Powell.
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A Legacy of Black Performance in Durham, NC

20 July 2012

Kashif Jerome Powell on the legacy of Dewy “Pigmeat” Markham on the Black Performance work in the Durham, North Carolina theater scene, its influcence on the work of local theatermaker Mike Wiely, and the continuation of said conversation in the current Black performace scene in Durham.

Portrait of Joseph Haj.
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19 July 2012

For the North Carolina "Triangle" City Series, Lauren Keating interviews director Joseph Haj about theatre-making in a prison, divserity in theatre-leadership, and his path towards artistic direction.

Two women clasp hands on a mattress with several people behind them. All are in underclothing.
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16 July 2012

For the North Carolina: "Triangle" Cities Series, writer Monica Byrne chronicles her relocation to Durham, and the range of passionate theatre artists working there.

Video
Sunday 15 July 2012
North Carolina

Ladies of Triangle Theatre (LoTT) discussed the state of theatre for ladies working in the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill areas of North Carolina livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 15 July 2012 at 4 p.m. PDT / 6 p.m. CDT / 7 p.m. EDT.

The letter H stylized as Howlround's original logo.
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The Triangle Region

15 July 2012

This week's topic of discussion will focus on The Triangle region of North Carolina, which we're exploring all week on HowlRound. We'll be joined by Byron Woods and other contributors from this week. Stay tuned for more updates!

four ladders pointing towards the sky.
Series

Adventures in Audio Fiction Podcast

In this podcast series, Durham-based theatremaker Tamara Kissane chats with artists about their work, their plans, and their manifestos.

Series

North Carolina "Triangle" City Series

A series featuring voices from in and around the theatre communities of Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh.

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