Content here focuses on theatremakers, companies, and projects engaging with politics and political action. A great example of the power of this work is the video series Political Theatre as a Civil Right from the British-Romanian political theatre company BÉZNĂ Theatre.
The Ford Foundation presented the convening Art, Identity, and Movements for Change livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 23 June.
Our Life: The Black Youth Stories, an original production presented at the University of California, Irvine, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 6 June at 8 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9 p.m. MDT (Albuquerque) / 10 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 11 p.m. EDT (New York).
La MaMa presented a performance of Belarus Free Theatre's Trash Cuisine livestreamed from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 17 May at 1 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 2 p.m. MDT (Calgary) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4 p.m. EDT (Montreal) / 20:00 GMT / 9 p.m. BST (London) / 10 p.m. CEST (Berlin) / 11 p.m. FET (Minsk).
Working Theater in New York City presented a conversation about community engagement and theatremaking in community as part of the Five Boroughs/One City Project livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on howlround.tv on Sunday 10 May at 12 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 2 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EDT (New York) / 19:00 GMT.
Illana Stein reports on the perceived and projected possible ramifications of burning the Quran on stage during a production of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great.
Brown Bag Theatre Company presented The Service Workers Project: Contra La Corriente/Against the Current: a new play with original music inspired by the service workers at the University of California, Irvine livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 3 May at 8 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9 p.m. MDT (Albuquerque) / 10 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 11 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @HowlRoundTV
Members of the Brown Bag Theatre Company share their experience making Contra La Corriente/Against the Current, a project created with service workers on the UC Irvine Campus.
The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit presented the panel discussion Gentrification & Urban Development livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 16 April at 6 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EDT (San Francisco). In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use hashtag #howlround.
Yale Law School presented a reading of Sliver of a Full Moon, the powerful play written by playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and Mohegan Director Madeline Sayetlivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 31 March at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. MDT (Denver) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 2:30 p.m. AKDT (Anchorage).
Torange discusses productions she saw in Tehran that premiered outside the Festival, and the impact of the political and economic climate on making theatre in Iran.
The 33rd Fadjr International Theater Festival, Iran’s most visible dramatic showcase, opened ran in Tehran January 21-February 1, 2015. It featured eighty plays from Iran and eleven from Europe and the Middle East, and no representation from the United States.
