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On Teaching Work Ethic
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On Teaching Work Ethic
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Jennifer Blackmer, Marcus Lane
26 March 2024
Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself
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Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself
by Christin Eve Cato, Jorge Piña
23 January 2024
On Theatre, Home, and Housing 
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On Theatre, Home, and Housing 
by Jan Cohen-Cruz
16 January 2024
Rehearsal for The Long Road Today.
Resident Playwrights in Conversation
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Resident Playwrights in Conversation

José Cruz González and Julie Marie Myatt

21 April 2014

Playwrights Julie Marie Myatt and José Cruz González discuss South Coast Repertory's Dialogue/Diálogos project, which features the stories of more than 700 residents of the Santa Ana community.

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Performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) at force/collision
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Performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) at force/collision

Sunday 20 April 2014
Washington, D.C., United States

force/collision presented a performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 20 April at 1 p.m. PDT/ 3 p.m. CDT/ 4 p.m. EDT/ 9 p.m. BST

Playwrights in the Community—Building Momentum at South Coast Repertory
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Playwrights in the Community—Building Momentum at South Coast Repertory

20 April 2014

Kelly Miller offers insight on how the South Coast Repertory has supported and engaged with playwrights to develop compelling theatre in Orange County. 

Making a Statement about Diversity at the Humana Festival of New American Plays
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Making a Statement about Diversity at the Humana Festival of New American Plays

18 April 2014

Dani Snyder-Young writes about the intentional diversity she witnessed in five of the 2014 Humana Festival productions.

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National Center for Arts Research Discussion with Kate Levin
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National Center for Arts Research Discussion with Kate Levin

Thursday 17 April 2014
Dallas, TX, United States

SMU in Dallas, Texas presented the conversation Transforming Arts and Culture Nationwide livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 17 April at 4 p.m. PDT/ 6 p.m. CDT/ 7 p.m. EDT/ 23:00 GMT.

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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater
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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater

Wednesday 16 April 2014 
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 16 April 2014 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

 

Female Boxers and Alternative Redemption
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Female Boxers and Alternative Redemption

16 April 2014

Deborah Stein and Suli Holum share their inspirations behind creating The Wholehearted.

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1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival at Perseverance Theatre
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1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival at Perseverance Theatre

Monday 14 April 2014
Juneau, AK, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) & Perseverance Theatre presented the 1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 14 April at 7:30 p.m. AKDT/ 8:30 p.m. PDT/ 10:30 p.m. CDT/ 11:30pm EDT. In Twitter, share conversation with #1MPF and #howlround.

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Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference 
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Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference 

Monday 14 April 2014
San Francisco, CA, United States

Theatre Bay Area presented three sessions from their annual conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 14 April.

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What Chimerica Tells Us About the Photograph
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What Chimerica Tells Us About the Photograph

14 April 2014

Based on an actual photograph, the main action of Lucy Kirkwood’s play is an American photojournalist’s unyielding quest to unlock the mystery of a photograph taken by him during the 1989 student revolution and military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. In the photograph in question a slender man, who goes on to be labeled the “Tank Man,” stands in front of a line of military tanks rolling into the Square. While it is something of a truism that the theater is, as a character in Don Quixote says, “the mirror of human life” sometimes theater can serve as a path-breaking reflection on another art form.

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For Fear the Glass May Shatter by David DeMaris at The VORTEX
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For Fear the Glass May Shatter by David DeMaris at The VORTEX

Friday 11 April 2014
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented a performance of For Fear the Glass May Shatter by David DeMarislivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 11 April at 9 p.m. EST (New York) / 8 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PST (Los Angeles).

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How Accessibility Works at the Wheelock Family Theatre
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How Accessibility Works at the Wheelock Family Theatre

10 April 2014

We did "Pippi", and we had American Sign Language interpretation every weekend. This is because Wendy Lement, the producer at Wheelock, directed the play herself, and wanted the interpreters to be integrated with the cast. They were signing performers, rather than interpreters. They were each assigned a character in the cast, had their own blocking, and dressed to blend in onstage. "Pippi" was unusual in that the interpreters/sign performers rehearsed with the cast from day one until the opening night. They started from scratch, not knowing who the characters are, and worked alongside the cast to develop them. (This interview was conducted in ASL, and was translated and edited by Ariel Baker-Gibbs.)

Performing Age
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Performing Age

Mallory Catlett’s This Was The End

10 April 2014

Bertie Ferdman reviews Mallory Catlett's adaption of Uncle Vanya featuring actors in their sixties and seventies.

Widening the Embrace of Theater
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Widening the Embrace of Theater

The Different Forms of Accessibility

10 April 2014

The Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston was started by four people: Andrea Genser, Susan Kosoff, Jane Staab, and Tony Hancock. The mission of the theatre was to make a professional theater that would be accessible to everyone, with a multicultural cast, with black, yellow, white, green people. When you start defining people by color, just pull in green and blue and orange, like the Muppets. We just want to widen our embrace. The priority was to be affordable, but from the start, we would always have a show that was interpreted. That was in 1981, and we worked with a lot of people to make that happen. Audio description started around 1990 at Imagination Stage, and Wheelock Family Theatre was drawn to it, as we wanted to cast a wider net, and include blind people.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater
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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 9 April 2014
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 9 April at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

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Conversation with Author Soman Chainani: Creating a World
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Conversation with Author Soman Chainani: Creating a World

Tuesday 8 April 2014
New York, NY, United States

The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presented a conversation with author Soman Chainani livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 8 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT/ 5:30 p.m. CDT/ 6:30 p.m. EDT/ 11:30 p.m. BST.

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New York Neo-Futurists
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New York Neo-Futurists

An Interview with Christopher Andrew Loar

8 April 2014

Bess Rowen interviews Christopher Andrew Loar of the New York Neo-Futurists, creator/director of The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill.

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Melinda Lopez's Playwriting Residency at Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
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Melinda Lopez's Playwriting Residency at Huntington Theatre Company, Boston

5 April 2014

HowlRound is working with playwright residency sites around the country to track the impact of what it means to have a playwright on staff. At each of the fourteen theaters we have a Commons Producer—a theater practitioner from the local community working with the theater and the playwright to tell the story of each residency and make the learning from this experiment accessible as it's happening. Periodically we will post these residency updates on HowlRound in the hopes that it will be useful to field-wide learning on the question of what it means to employ playwrights inside of theaters.

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The Art of Collective Invention Conversation from Humana Festival of New American Plays
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The Art of Collective Invention Conversation from Humana Festival of New American Plays

Friday 4 April 2014
Louisville, KY, United States

Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presented The Art of Collective Invention conversation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 4 April at 10 a.m. PDT/ 12 p.m. CDT / 1 p.m. EDT / 17:00 GMT / 6 p.m. BST (London).

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Perspectives in Theatre Criticism: A Keynote by Lauren Gunderson livestreaming from Humana Festival of New American Plays
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Perspectives in Theatre Criticism: A Keynote by Lauren Gunderson livestreaming from Humana Festival of New American Plays

Thursday 3 April 2014
Louisville, KY, United States

Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presented Perspectives in Theatre Criticism livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 3 April at 11 a.m. PDT/ 1 p.m. CDT / 2 p.m. EDT / 18:00 GMT / 7 p.m. BST (London).

Two actors fight on stage in a boxing ring in Rocky.
The Broadway Effect in Rocky, Aladdin, Les Miz
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The Broadway Effect in Rocky, Aladdin, Les Miz

3 April 2014

Jonathan Mandell looks at reocurring devices and techniques of spectacle in Broadway productions.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater
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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 2 April 2014
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 2 April at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

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8th Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival at Primary Stages
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8th Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival at Primary Stages

Wednesday 2 April 2014
New York, NY, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) (Dominic D’Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) presented the 8th Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 2 April 2014.

2014 NoPassport Theatre Conference at LSU in Baton Rouge
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2014 NoPassport Theatre Conference at LSU in Baton Rouge

Saturday 29 March 2014
Baton Rouge, LA, United States

NoPassport and Louisiana State University Department of Theatre presented the 8th annual NoPassport Theatre Conference—Dreaming the Americas: The Diasporic Imagination livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 29 March 2014. In Twitter, use #3030NP to participate in online conversation.

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A Conversation with Anne Bogart at the Humana Festival
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A Conversation with Anne Bogart at the Humana Festival

Saturday 29 March 2014
Louisville, KY, United States

Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presented a conversation with Anne Bogart livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 29 March at 7 a.m. PDT/ 9 a.m. CDT / 10 a.m. EDT / 2 p.m. GMT.