Happy Accidents, Competition, and the Best Idea Wins
Prayers of Halley Feiffer
24 February 2015
Martha Steketee explores the development and evolution of I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard with playwright Halley Feiffer. The play spans five years and two opening nights, features substance abuse, plenty of familial debate, and one attempt at reconciliation.
The Indian(s) in the Attic—Divining a Message from August: Osage County
23 February 2015
Native voices week continues! August: Osage County’s Kimberly Guerrero explores her work on the show, and what lesson the American theatre can learn from it.
MindFluctuations by The Maida Withers Dance Construction Company
Thursday 19 March 2015
Washington, D.C., United States
The Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC presented the world premiere of MindFluctuations livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 March at 8 p.m. EDT (New York) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
The Seth Show with the Episode Creeps, Pervs, and Shysters
Tuesday 17 February 2015
MA, United States
Seth Lepore presented The Seth Show with the episode Creeps, Pervs, and Shysters livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 17 February at 7 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Vancouver).
Martha Steketee looks at The Players, an 125-year-old club for actors and those that love them, and spends some time with all its history and archives.
Conversation about BETSY! The Appalachian-Puerto Rican Musical at Roadside Theater
Thursday 12 February 2015
New York, NY, United States
Roadside Theater and Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater presented a conversation about BETSY!The Appalachian-Puerto Rican Musical livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 February at 7 p.m. EST (New York) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Los Angeles).
Performance of Native American playwrights/activists Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle’s My Father’s Bones about Olympian Jim Thorpe
Thursday 12 February 2015
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Penn Cultural Heritage Center and the Penn Museum in Philadelphia presented a staged reading and discussion of My Father’s Bones—a short play by nationally renowned Native American writers and activists Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle— livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 February at 5:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 4:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 2:30 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 22:30 GMT (London).
The Seth Show with the episode Love, Hate, and Lust in New England
Tuesday 10 February 2015
MA, United States
Seth Lepore presented The Seth Show with the episode Love, Hate and Lust livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 February at 7 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Vancouver).
Scena Theatre is small but ambitious, and in spite of its relatively low profile, it has thrived in Washington for twenty-seven years. Founding artistic director Robert McNamara is tenaciously committed to bringing new work from around the world to D.C. audiences.
Fighting for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Legacies
A Conversation for The A.R.T. of Human Rights at Harvard University
Sunday 8 February 2015
Cambridge, MA, United States
The A.R.T. of Human Rights—a collaboration between the American Repertory Theater & Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University—presented the conversation Fighting for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Legacies livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 8 February at 5:15 p.m. EST (New York) / 4:15 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 2:15 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 22:15 GMT (London).
A Conversation Between Two Ensembles: SITI Company and Double Edge Theatre
Thursday 5 February 2015
Ashfield, MA, United States
Double Edge Theatre in rural Ashfield, Massachusetts presented A Conversation Between Two Ensembles: SITI Company and Double Edge Theatre livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 5 February at 6 p.m. EST (Montreal) / 5 p.m. CST (Austin) / 3 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 23:00 GMT (London).
"Audience participation" is a vague term, like much of theatrical terminology; it has come to mean different things to different people... What happens when the audience participates by becoming performers—without volunteering to do so?
Seth Lepore presented The Seth Show with the episode A Dignified Death livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 3 February at 7 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Vancouver).
“The most gorgeous group of f*ck ups” in Airline Highway at Steppenwolf
3 February 2015
Airline Highway is about community. D’Amour focuses the play not on their pain, but on their joy and celebration of a life fully lived, using the “living funeral” as a landscape to highlight her nuanced characters and their complex relationships.
The People's State of the Union—2015 Poetic Address to the Nation at Bowery Poetry
Sunday 1 February 2015
New York City, NY, United States
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture presented The People's State of the Union—2015 Poetic Address to the Nation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 1 February at 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 23:30 GMT (London). Livestreaming by CultureHub at Bowery Poetry in New York City.
Enrique's Journey, directed and adapted by Anthony J. Garcia, is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Sonia Nazario. The third production of Enrique’s Journey took place at the LATC's Encuentro 2014, performed by Su Teatro.
Shahid Nadeem's Amrika Chalo (Destination: USA) from Pakistan's Ajoka Theatre at The Lab
Saturday 24 January 2015
Washington DC, United States
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC presented the US Premiere of Amrika Chalo (Destination: USA) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 24 January at 8 p.m. EST (Washington, DC) / 5 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 01:00 GMT (London) on Sunday 25 January / 06:00 PKT (Lahore).
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work at The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University
A playwriting masterclass.
Saturday 24 January 2015
Cambridge, MA, United States
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University presented Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 24 January at 4:30 p.m. EST (Boston) / 21:30 GMT (London) / 3:30 p.m. CST (Austin) / 1:30 p.m. PST (Vancouver).
Jeni Incontro encourages the theatre industry to change the business model by embracing technology, filming performances, and giving theatregoers the option of watching whenever they’d like.
Teatro del Sol's Mariela en el desierto is a fantastic philosophical meditation on art and women artists obscured by the ambition of their partners, inhibited creativity, truth, beauty, and the sacrifices we make for our loved ones.
Liz Fisher's Deus Ex Machina, A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Performance
Sunday 18 January 2015
Austin, TX, United States
Whirligig Productions, Shrewd Productions, and Fusebox presented Deus Ex Machina from Austin, Texas livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 18 January at 23:00 GMT (London)/ 6 p.m. EST (New York)/ 5 p.m. CST (Austin)/ 3 p.m. PST (Vancouver). Click here to view the livestream. Send text messages to +(1) 512-872-4637 during the performance.
Avant-garde performer and director Paul Zimet offers a brief overview of his role in Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theater and his forty-year history with Talking Band.
