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
Carla Della Gatta reports on the second Latina/o Studies Association Conference, sharing insight on conversations on Latinx theatre history and practices within US scholarship.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented the panel discussion Theatre & Performance in 1970s NYC: Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV at howlround.tv Monday 31 October at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:30 p.m. GMT/UTC (London) / 23:30 CET (Berlin). Share your thoughts in Twitter with #howlround, and follow @HowlRoundTV for updates.
Amy Brady interviews Michael Arve about Dangerous Theatre, a piece he’s directing based on Hallie Flanagan’s 1938 testimony to the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities.
Michael Lueger and Barbara Fuchs discuss the plays written during Spain’s theatrical Golden Age, and Barbara’s Diversifying the Classic project, which aims to bring them back into prominence for English-speaking audiences.
Talking About Drugs (and Theatre) with Max Shulman
22 August 2016
Michael Lueger kicks off a new Theatre History podcast series with an interview with Max Shulman, discussing drugs in American theatre at the turn of the twentieth century.
An Interview with the Museum of London Archaeology Team Digging Up One of Shakespeare’s Theatres
10 August 2016
An interview between Michael Lueger and MOLA archeologists Heather Knight and Julian Bowsher about the recent excavation of the Curtain Theatre in London.
The work and life of Zelda Fichandler permeate the values and purpose of HowlRound. She was a significant inspiration for how we imagined our intervention into the theatre. Her rigorous thinking and her visionary artistry will continue to influence how we move forward. We republish her words in honor of her memory and as a celebration of her brilliance.—HowlRound
La Mama Etc. presented A Celebration of the life of Martha Wadsworth Coigney livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at Howlround.TV on Monday 11 July at 3:00 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 23:00 GMT / 12:00 CEST (Paris). Share your thoughts on Twitter with #howlround, @howlroundtv and follow on @LaMaMaETC. Livestream production by Culture Hub.
Renaissance scholar Nora J. Williams discusses the #Shakespeare400 celebrations, and the myth that Shakespeare is the “greatest playwright” in the English language.
Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow presented a talk Travels with a Dilettante: Moscow by John Freedman livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 11 June at 19:00-20:30 MSK/EEST (Moscow) / 18:00-19:30 CEST (Berlin) / 5pm-6:30 p.m. BST (London) / 16:00-17:30 GMT / 12pm-1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11am-12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9am-10:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Share your comments on Twitter with #howlround.
In this installment of his Strange Eventful History series, Michael Lueger discusses the assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre, and traces the lives of the actors and producers involved with the show.
Celebrating the Beginnings of a Historic Women’s Theatre
24 May 2016
Playwright Kathleen Warnock reports on WOW Café Theatre’s reunion and book launch for Memories of the Revolution, which chronicles the first ten years of WOW Café.
La MaMa in New York City presented the Holly Woodlawn Memorial livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 14 May at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT / 6:30 p.m. BST (London) / 19:30 CEST (Berlin). Share your thoughts on Twitter with #howlround and follow @LaMaMaETC and @HowlRoundTV.
