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How LUNG Is Breathing Radical Joy into Theatre in the United Kingdom
Essay
How LUNG Is Breathing Radical Joy into Theatre in the United Kingdom
by verity healey, Matt Woodhead, Helen Monks
5 March 2024
Strengthening International Exchange in Turbulent Times
Video
Strengthening International Exchange in Turbulent Times
A Meeting of the International Presenting Commons (IPC) at the Edinburgh International Festival
Wednesday 9 August 2023
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dear England/England Now
Essay
Dear England/England Now
by verity healey
19 October 2023
Photo from Julius Caesar.
Hard Times
Essay

Hard Times

From London, A Caesar In Chains

22 October 2013

The Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of Julius Caesar encloses the story into a women’s prison to bring to light contemporary commentary on freedom and betrayal.

Bloody Great Border Ballad.
A Higher Quality of Confusion
Essay

A Higher Quality of Confusion

How to Make People Disagree

8 September 2013

Highlighted by Scotland’s possible independence, Regan sifts through the idea of how debate can be brought on by political theatre.

Edinburgh Fringe street performers.
Dispatch from the Edinburgh Fringe, Part One
Essay

Dispatch from the Edinburgh Fringe, Part One

Feast or Binge

13 August 2013

In this first installment, Talya Kingston struggles to figure out the best way to choose from all of the possible selections to see at Edinburgh Fringe.

Photo from War Horse.
War Horse in the UK and US
Essay

War Horse in the UK and US

The Challenges of the Replica

3 July 2013

The tour of UK’s War Horse in the United States shows us that, even a ingenious play, assumed historical knowledge can make or break an audience’s experience.

A statue and the Capitol building in Austin, Texas.
Hacking Theater In A Networked World
Essay

Hacking Theater In A Networked World

15 April 2013

Robert Matney writes about the various ways in which theater companies are adapting and thriving by incorporating technology into their practice.

Logo for Dramatists Guild.
Forum on New Play Development in the United Kingdom at New Dramatists
Dramatists Guild Logo.
Dramatists Guild
Video

Forum on New Play Development in the United Kingdom at New Dramatists

Tuesday 19 February 2013
New York, NY, United States

New Dramatists presented "Over There, Over Here": A Forum on New Play Development in the United Kingdom livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York) / (Wed, Feb 20 at 0:00 GMT—London).

Roma Theatre Retrospective Logo
Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021
Series

Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021

Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre

Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.

screen shot of a tweet by @pangmeli that reads "I’m all for activist communities, queer communities etc, but communities are few and far between. what we have more of are scenes. Two signs that it’s a scene: it doesn’t have multiple generations (children, elders) and the members all have a suspiciously similar aesthetic."
Conversations Across Generations
Series

Conversations Across Generations

Dialogues with UK based Performance Artists

Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.

ADA 25th Anniversary
Series

ADA 25th Anniversary

To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on 26 July 2015, we're publishing a series of pieces focusing on issues of accessibility and visibility in theatre.

Cultural Borders
Series

Cultural Borders

This three-part series chronicles the musings of a twenty-something college grad making theatre in London, trying to figure out what to bring home.