There’s so much to be learned from history, and theatre is no exception. If you’re looking to dive into theatre’s past, the Theatre History Podcast is the perfect place to start.
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We Begin With Classics: How To Radically Impact the Theater Landscape
Monday 30 March 2026
New York City
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A Book Celebration of Late Stage
Theatre, Aging, and the Legacy of Elinor Fuchs
Thursday 19 March 2026
New York City
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A Book Celebration of Marc Robinson's American Performance in 1976
Interview with Tina Brock, artistic director of IRC, Philadelphia’s only surreal theatre
3 February 2017
Henrik Eger interviews Tina Brock about how her company is responding to the current political climate in the US, and what she feels that absurdist theatre has to offer.
Jena Tesse Fox talks to Jennifer Ashley Tepper, theatre historian, author of the three-volume series The Untold Stories of Broadway, about her role as Director of Programming at 54 Below, and how the history of Broadway relates to us today.
Interview with Elyse Dodgson, the International Director at the Royal Court Theatre, at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow about her work and relationship with playwright Sarah Kane.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented the symposium Heiner Müller’s Discovery of America livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 19 December. In Twitter, follow @howlroundtv and @segalcenter, and use #howlround to share your thoughts.
Remarks by Laura Penn, Teresa Eyring, and Tazewell Thompson at A Celebration of Life for Zelda Fichandler hosted by Arena Stage and the Fichandler family at the Mead Center for American Theater October 24, 2016.
Project Curie City presented a performance of WarSawSirenaF451—scenes by Warsaw women—livestreamed from Paris, France on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 15 December. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround.
Shuffle Along, Revivals, and Reconstructing the Theatrical Past
16 November 2016
Alison Durkee considers the preservation of the theatrical past in a number of ‘reconstructed’ performances or resurrections of ‘lost’ works, such the 2016 production of Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.
HowlRound Associate Producer Ramona Ostrowski on attending the Remembering Zelda events at Arena Stage and how Zelda Fichandler’s example and words are a balm and a spark to her own work as a theatre practitioner.
