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On Teaching Work Ethic
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Jennifer Blackmer, Marcus Lane
26 March 2024
Essay
Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself
by Christin Eve Cato, Jorge Piña
23 January 2024
Essay
On Theatre, Home, and Housing 
by Jan Cohen-Cruz
16 January 2024
Logo for Working Theatre.
Essay
11 June 2013

Working Theater randomly selects seven directors to direct seven commissioned plays in a week, for their Directors Salon as an opportunity to help directors "break into the business"

Video
Friday 7 June 2013
Dallas, TX, United States

The Dallas Latino Cultural Center presents a Conversation With Luis Valdez, Founding Artistic Director Of El Teatro Campesino, as a part of their Lecture Series symposium on the state of Latino theatre in the United States livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 7 June 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York).

A man participating in Hidden Stories.
Essay

Ant Hampton/Tim Etchells’ The Quiet Volume and Begat Theater’s Hidden Stories

8 June 2013

Bertie Ferdman talks about The Quiet Volume and Hidden Stories, two interdisciplinary works that challenge audiences perceptions of time and space.

Video
Friday 7 June 2013
Dallas, TX, United States

Dallas Latino Cultural Center presented the Teatro Alianza of North Texas Organizations meeting livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 7 June at 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5pm-7:30 pm EDT (New York). To participate in online conversation, search and use Twitter hashtag #howlround in your tweets.

A still from A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney.
Essay
6 June 2013

W.M. Akers examines immortality in Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, questioning can our creations keep us here after we have past?

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

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 5 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 5 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)

 

A performer in overalls holds a small bird.
Essay
31 May 2013

Alice Stanley writes about experiencing Chuck Mee's soot and spit, an experimental play about the artist James Castle featuring deaf and cognitively challenged actors.

Logo for LA Stage Alliance.
Essay

The Road to New Writing

31 May 2013

Holly Derr reports from LA Stage Day, where a lack of female playwrights demonstrates a larger problem: if LA has so many female writers, then how come none of them are getting produced?

Essay
30 May 2013

Andrew Alexander looks at Atlanta-based theatre company Saiah, which took on the challenge of making a sea and whale come alive for audiences in their adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

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

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 29 May 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 29 May 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).

 

Event banner ad for The Egypt Play.
Video
Saturday 25 May 2013
Williamsburg, VA, United States

Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presented a livestreaming workshop performance of Tori Keenan-Zelt’s new work The Egypt Play, or The Misses Blake on a Holiday Jihad livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 May 2013 at 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 23:30 GMT. View a conversion into your local time.

Great Plains Theatre Conference logo.
Video
Saturday 25 May 2013
Omaha, NB, United States

Metropolitan Community College presented the Great Plains Theatre Conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 May 2013 at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Omaha) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT. Convert into your local time.

Logo for Dramatists Guild.
Video
Tuesday 21 May 2013 
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild of America presented Social Media from the Playwright’s Perspective livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 2:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 4:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 5:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 21:30 GMT / 10:30 p.m. BST (London). View the conversion into your local time here.

Still from The Happiest Song Plays Last.
Essay
21 May 2013

Dani Snyder-Young discusses The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and asks: how do we invite diverse audiences into this exploration?

Actors onstage during the Voices of Now Festival.
Video
Friday 17 May 2013
Washington, D.C., United States

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presented the third annual Voices of Now Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 17 May 2013 at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 23:30 GMT. View the conversion into your local time.

Logo for Dramatists Guild.
Video
Thursday 16 May 2013
New York, NY, United States

A Conversation With Bartlett Sher co-hosted by Dramatists Guild of America and Harvardwood livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 16 May 2013 at 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 11:30 p.m. BST (London). View a conversion into your local time.

Still from Here Lies Love.
Essay
16 May 2013

W.M. Akers looks at how this immersive musical from Alex Timbers, David Byrne, Annie-B Parson and Fatboy Slim tells Imelda Marcos' story through disco, audience involvement, and theatrical hypnotism.

Event banner ad for the play Beneatha's Place.
Video
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Baltimore, MD, United States

CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore presented a discussion with playwrights on “Expanding the African American Narrative,”livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 15 May 2013 at 3:45 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:45 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:45 p.m. EDT (Baltimore) / 22:45 GMT / 11:45 p.m. BST (London). View a conversion into your local time.

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

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 15 May 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 15 May 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

Photo from the play Edge.
Essay
14 May 2013

Allison Vanouse profiles Near Death, a performance art presentation at Boston's Cyclorama.

Event banner ad for Ingram New Works Festival.
Video
Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013
Nashville, TN, United States

Tennessee Rep in Nashville presented the Ingram New Works Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013.

Video
Saturday 11 May 2013
Sarasota, FL, United States

Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota presented the annual Young Playwrights Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 11 May beginning at 7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 9 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10 a.m. EDT (New York) / 14:00 GMT / 3 p.m. BST (London). ​

Dictionary entry for Diversity.
Essay

From Catch Phrase to Meaningful Change

9 May 2013

Stillwell linguistically breaks down the work “diversity” in order to break apart the buzz from the possible changes that can be made.

Still from A Lady and A Woman.
Essay
7 May 2013

Lily Janiak talks about Theatre Rhino’s A Lady and A Woman and examines her role as a theatre critic.

Essay
30 April 2013

Chris Garza discusses Intermedia Arts and Freestyle Theatre’s recent production about the politics of skin in the United States, which makes the audience question the validity in saying the US is a “post-racial” society.

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