National Performance Network Annual Meeting in New Orleans
Friday 13 December - Sunday 15 December 2013
New Orleans, LA, United States
Let’s Geaux, Y’all! The National Performance Network presented their Annual Meeting in New Orleans livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 13 December - Sunday 15 December 2013. To participate in these sessions, direct your comments on Twitter to @NPN_VAN and use hashtags #AMNOLA and #LiveAndOnStage. Find the Facebook event here.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater
A playwriting masterclass
Thursday 12 December 2013
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 TVnetwork at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 December 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)
Fellowships and Mentorships for Playwrights of Color at Playwrights' Center
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Minneapolis, MN, United States
The Playwrights' Center Many Voices Program Coordinator Christina Ham and Associate Artistic Director Hayley Finn presented an information session about the 2014-15 Many Voices Program livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 11 December at 4 p.m. PST (Los Angeles)/ 5 p.m. MST / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York).
Dangerous inclusivity in Silk Road Rising’s Paulus
11 December 2013
Dani Snyder-Young reviews Silk Road Rising's world premiere of Motti Lerner's Paulus, and explores the modern ramifications for a play about religious inclusivity in Israel.
Aristotle's Impact on Gender Parity, Playwriting, and Production panel at Rogue Machine Theatre
Tuesday 10 December 2013
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents "Aristotle was a Man!", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic structure and discuss the long term impact on today's playwriting, production, and gender parity livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 December at 11 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. CST / 2 p.m. EST / 19:00 GMT. To participate in this discussion, direct your comments on Twitter @RogueMachineLA and use #howlround.
Seth Lepore's 12 Hour Performance Marathon Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names
Saturday 7 December 2013
Easthampton, MA, United States
Seth Lepore presented "Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names"—a 12 hour theatrical web-a-thon spectacle that will look at the meta-examination of both failing and succeeding in real time—livestreamed on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 7 December at 7 a.m.-7 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 9 a.m.-9 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 10 a.m.-10 p.m. EST (Boston) / 15:00 GMT (Sat, Dec 7) - 03:00 GMT (Sun, Dec 8) (London). Use Twitter hashtag #howlround & direct comments @sethlepore.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater, New York
A playwriting masterclass
Thursday 5 December 2013
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 TVnetwork at howlround.tv on Thursday 5 December 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).
Platonov and Anton Chekhov's Proto-Grunge Philosophy
5 December 2013
Jay Scheib's adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Platnov titled Platonov, or The Disinherited merges with grunge culture-drugs, sex, and alcohol to take a look at values and viewpoints.
A Good Death examines how those who might be termed “professionals” of death matters (hospice care workers) strive to make the unthinkable into something good.
The day after the opening, I get an email from a lawyer friend who says: “Okay, Pearl, you’re the expert. Explain the second act of that play we saw last night.” I sigh and put on the coffee. My hands hover over the keys. I’m not sure what to say or how to say it. Not sure where to find the intersection of honest critique, institutional loyalty and sisterhood solidarity, I plunge in, hoping for the best.
This initial conversation between Artistic Director Jack Reuler and Playwright-in-Residence Aditi Brennan Kapil examines the artistic case for a theatre in Minneapolis to charge no admission, program ambitious new work that stretches its aesthetics, capacity, and resources, and perhaps more importantly, why this matters?
Discussion about Immersive Theatre with Bricolage Production Co at Dramatists Guild
Monday 25 November 2013
New York, NY, United States
The Dramatists Guild of America presented a discussion about Immersive Theatre with Pittsburgh's Bricolage Production Company livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 25 November at 3 p.m. PST / 5 p.m. CST / 6 p.m. EST / 23:00 GMT.
Emerging from the Latina/o Theatre Commons is a list of plays everyone should have access to. This list helps start jumpstart the exploration of (but not define) Latina/o theatre.
Many of us can attribute our path to the theater to a dynamic teacher in school: the teacher that inspired us or showed us a new side of ourselves. This series is a snapshot of today's high school theater educators across the country sharing about what they do and how and why they do this work.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater, New York—Thursday 21 November 2013
Thursday 21 November 2013
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 TVnetwork at howlround.tv on Thursday 21 November 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)
W.M. Akers reviews Marie Antoinette at Soho Rep. What is to be gained by following the notorious queen past her glamour and into the hour of her death?
Acting is a physical function. It starts with the body. The body is the instrument. A theater without actors is not a theater; yet theater without words exists the world over.
35 and Counting, a Symposium on Theatre & Social Justice at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco
Thursday 14 November 2013
San Francisco, CA, United States
Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco presented 35 and Counting, a Symposium on Theatre & Social Justice livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 14 November at 6 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 8 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 9 p.m. EST (New York).
Ariel Baker-Gibbs reviews Tribes, and wonders who the play about deaf culture is speaking to: deaf audeinces, or the hearing audiences who are fascinated by them?
Dani Snyder-Young reviews Steven Simoncic’s Broken Fences at 16th Street Theater, and highlights the play's message... and how audiences have failed to recieve it.