The Great Plains Theatre Conference presented a panel on using source material: Unoriginal Ideas livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday, May 27 at 10:30 a.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / 17:30 GMT. In Twitter use #GPTC and #howlround.
You’re invited to join the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, Nebraska for the panel discussion Found Spaces and Then Some livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 24 May at 11 a.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 1 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 2 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / 18:00 GMT. Use #GPTC and #howlround in Twitter to participate in conversation.
Srila Nayak reviews the American Repertory Theater’s production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and highlights how the production uses music, color-consious-casting, spectacle, and stage-magic.
The Foundry Theatre presented Transforming Justice as part of the Foundry’s May 2014 Dialogues series Devising Freedom livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 21 May at 4 p.m. PDT/ 6 p.m. CDT/ 7 p.m. EDT/ 23:00 GMT. What other forms of justice do people imagine or, better yet, already practice? Join us for a conversation with three visionaries who are leading the way toward greater safety, accountability, and freedom as they discuss their experiences with community-based approaches to violence, their challenges and lessons learned along the way. Featuring Mariame Kaba, Danielle Sered, and Ejeris Dixon. Tweet @FoundryTheatre if you have a question for the speakers.
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 Wednesday 21 May 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)
I was young, knew nothing and was impressionable. I remember being fond of Yuriko’s direction. She would say things like, “go forward from here” while pointing to her heart. No one had ever given me direction like that before. That first play was the beginning of my romance with Noh (performed in Japan since the thirteenth-century, it’s the world’s oldest, continually performed, masked lyric drama) and I fell hard.
The Foundry Theatre presented their May 2014 Dialogues series Devising Freedom livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 19 May at 4 p.m. PDT/ 6 p.m. CDT/ 7 p.m. EDT/ 23:00 GMT.
The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, prides itself on producing “bold new plays,” under artistic director Cynthia Levin. The 2013-2014 season has been somewhat of a “dream” season for the Unicorn staff—“full of the best contemporary theater in America,” said Levin. As the literary assistant and dramaturg, I have the joy and privilege of digging into the scripts selected for the season. Not only are the plays new plays, many that are fresh out of New York, and world premieres, but also several of them have something else in common: war. While war is not new, the new season of plays in Kansas eloquently captures our era of endless war both open and covert.
Little Black Dress INK, Los Angeles presented its 2014 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 18 May at 12 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) /2 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EDT (Toronto).
Golden Thread in San Francisco presented a livestreaming performance of The Fifth String: Ziryab's Passage to Cordoba livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 17 May at 8 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 10 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 11 p.m. EDT (Toronto).
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presented the Voices of Now Festivallivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 May and on Saturday 17 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv. Use Twitter hashtag #howlround to comment and share.
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 Wednesday 14 May 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).
For an American playwright today, where is Mecca? Where does it all come together: actors of high quality who give maximum effort to a new script; directors with a sense of humor to match their ability to move bodies in space and make moments that signify on stage; audiences who not only love going to theater but do so a lot and make it part of their daily lives; and great bars before and after the show? Mecca (for me anyway) is Chicago. And my most recent hajj was to Teatro Vista.
Live from Nashville, the Tennessee Repertory Theatre presented the Ingram New Works Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 11 May through Wednesday 14 May 2014.
The term “collaborative” for me conjures up the idea of a loose group of artists with a shared Asian American identity and purpose, working together to produce a wide range of projects, from workshops, readings and short performances to full productions. If this process is successful, I believe it would be possible that within a three to five year period, there could be a significant Asian American presence in the Philadelphia theater community and a real demand for their work.
Playwrights Foundation, The Cutting Ball Theater & Tides Theatre in San Francisco, California presented a performance of the Des Voix Festival...Found in Translation Bal Littérairelivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 9 May at 8 p.m. PDT/ 10 p.m. CDT/ 11 p.m. EDT/ (Saturday, May 10 at 03:00 GMT).
In accepting the single story that "God’s Work" does not belong in a downtown Chicago theater, do we contribute to the silencing of the voices of our youth? I believe "God’s Work" is just as worthy of embodiment on stage as "Our Class" or any other current Chicago production, regardless of the age of the ensemble members telling it.
