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Essay
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Essay
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Photo from The Nina Variations.
Essay
4 July 2013

Brown Box Theatre Project’s production of The Nina Variations cast three actresses as Nina. Allison Vanouse constrasts Steven Dietz's play with other works that explore repetition and deconstruct classic plays.

Banner ad for Penumbra Theatre Company.
Essay

My Internship with Penumbra’s Summer Institute

3 July 2013

Jeff Freeman details his experience of interning with Penumbra Theatre.

Photo from War Horse.
Essay

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.

Photo from Time Sensitive.
Essay
3 July 2013

Ragged Wing Ensemble explores the concept of time with the centerpiece of an ice sculpture in Time Sensitive.

Logo for Dramatists Guild.
Video
Tuesday 2 July 2013
New York, NY, United States

New Dramatists in New York City presented Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 2 July 2013 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 3 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York).

Photo from Eternal Thou.
Essay

Adventures in the OC

2 July 2013

In the land of film and technology, LA pushes theatre to innovate the theatrical definition of reality.

Photo from a production of Gross Indecency.
Essay
2 July 2013

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is an old story of Wilde’s relations with the Queen’s son yet, with the current politics, still holds discussion today of the morality of law.

Photo from The Miss Neo Pageant.
Essay
27 June 2013

Dani Snyder-Young writes about The Miss Neo Pageant, and how - even though the ideas presented permeate much of the media about women - we still struggle with the ideas of female competition, jealousy, and distrust.

A hallway in the MFA.
Essay
25 June 2013

Allison Vanouse reviews "Odd Spaces" at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. What is to be gained, she asks, in finding new ways to perform in odd spaces?

Event banner ad for Sixteen Going On Seventeen at Joe's Pub.
Video
Monday 24 June 2013
New York, NY, United States

2g presents Sixteen Going on Seventeen at Joe’s Pub celebrating the 2012-13 season and introducing its commissioned writers, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 24 June 2013 at 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EDT (New York).

Citywrights banner.
Video
Thursday 20 June to Saturday 22 June 2013.
Miami, FL, United States

City Theatre in Miami, Florida hosted CityWrights 2013—CityWrights: A Professional Weekend for Playwrights livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 June to Saturday 22 June 2013.

A ballet dancer executes a difficult leap.
Essay
20 June 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Boston Ballet's 2013 triple-bill of George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C, and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Video

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 19 June 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 TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 19 June 2013 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).

Logo for One Minute Play Festival.
Video
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Chicago, IL, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival & Victory Gardens Theater presented The Third Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 18 June 2013 at 5:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8:30 p.m. EDT (New York).

Poster for The Encyclopedia Show Arizona.
Essay

A Successful Community Theater Model

18 June 2013

The Encyclopedia Show Arizona, an offshoot of a national project started in Chicago, brings professionals and amateurs together with an audience under one topic to educate, laugh, and share.

Event banner ad for force/collision's Trust Me.
Video
Sunday 16 June 2013
Washington, D.C., United States

 

 

Arena Stage in Washington, DC presented a work-in-progess performance of force/collision's Trust Me livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 June 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York).

Video
Sunday 16 June 2013
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presented "From the Dirty War and Beyond"—a conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona and Jorge Onofri livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 June 2013 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 11 a.m. CDT (Austin) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1 p.m. ART (Buenos Aires) / 16:00 GMT / 5 p.m. BST (London) / 6 p.m. CEST (Berlin).

Essay

An Interview with Kuma Hula Vicky Holt Takamine

15 June 2013

Vicky Holt Tamamine talks about the challenges of bring back the tradition of hula when it’s history is entangled in westernized perspectives.

Event banner ad for Microfest USA: Honolulu.
Video
Friday, June 14 - 17 2013
Honolulu, HI, United States

Network of Ensemble Theaters presents MicroFest USA: Honolulu National Summit and Learning Exchange livestreaming on HowlRound TV.

A map of Hawaii.
Essay
14 June 2013

Yukie Shiroma explores the multifaceted layers of her artistic life in the multicultural environment of Hawai'i

Essay
13 June 2013

Tradition has been the backdrop of contemporary theatre. Hawaii’s cultural diversity highlights tradition as a way of showing the richness of islands.

Skyline of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Essay
13 June 2013

John Wat shares a brief overview of the theatre scene in Honolulu.

Photo from a production of Gilgamesh.
Essay

D.C. Theater Explores the Spoils of War

13 June 2013

An apt topic of the DC Stage, Jesus at Guantanamo and Gilgamesh explore power and abuse through the failings of heroes

Logo for One Minute Play Festival.
Video
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Atlanta, GA, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival & Actor’s Express present The Second Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 11 June 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles), 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago), 8 p.m. EDT (Atlanta).

Photo from the play The Arsonists.
Essay
11 June 2013

The Arsonists acts as a chilling critique of blinding following norms and devotions while simultaneously being a rally cry to trust gut intuition.

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