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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
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Essay

Theatermaking in DC

9 April 2012

Ari Roth will co-host this weeks Howl on the past, present, and future of the DC theater scene.

A logo for the Black Women Playwrights' Group.
Essay
9 April 2012

Jason King Jones interviews Karen Evans, President and Founder of The Black Women Playwrights’ Group, about the why she found it necessary to start producing.

Essay

The Explosion of DC Theater

9 April 2012

Ari Roth explains how the policies of Ronald Reagan helped light the fire to turn DC into the thriving theater capital it is today.

A man looks outward with his arms raise as a choir sings behind him.
Essay
8 April 2012

Dog & pony emerged out of impluse resulting in shaking up DC's traditional theatre scene.

Video
Friday 30 March 2012
Louisville, KY, United States

As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, this fourth of four panel discussions was livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 30 March 2012 at 7:30 a.m. (Los Angeles) / 9:30 a.m. (Chicago) / 10:30 a.m. (New York) / 14:30 GMT / 15:30 (London-BST) / 16:30 (Berlin-CEST) / 20:00 (Mumbai).

Essay

TEDxHarlem 2012

30 March 2012

Erin Washington describes the innovation of thought shown by artists in TEDxHarlem and how the vitalizes her hope for the future of the community.

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Essay
29 March 2012

Kevin Becerra recounts his first time at the Humana Festival, and what it's like to head to the mythical center of new play development.

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Video
Tuesday 27 March 2012
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild's DuoLogue with Michael Weller and Richard Nelson was livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. (Los Angeles) / 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (New York) / 22:30 (London).

Video
Sunday 25 March 2012
Louisville, KY, United States

As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the third of four panel discussions was livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 25 March 2012 at 8:30 a.m. (Los Angeles) / 10:30 a.m. (Chicago) / 11:30 a.m. (New York) / 15:30 UTC / 16:30 (London-BST) / 17:30 (Berlin-CEST) / 21:00 (Mumbai).

Video
Thursday 22 March 2012

A discussion about Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Thursday 22 March 2012 at 10 a.m. EDT (Washington, DC) / 9 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 2 p.m. GMT (London) / 3 p.m. CET (Berlin).

A laptop sits on a table in the dark.
Essay

When do you write?

17 March 2012

In her latest installment, Catherine Trieschmann talks about finding time to write... when you're busy taking care of very tiny humans.

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Video
Tuesday 13 March 2012
New York, NY, United States

The Dramatists Guild is proud to present two of the most respected and honored lyricists in musical theatre, Sheldon Harnick and Lynn Ahrens, sitting down to discuss the ups and downs of being a theatrical lyricist livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 13 March 2012 at 2:30 p.m. (San Francisco) / 4:30 p.m. (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. (New York) / 9:30 p.m. (London) / 10:30 p.m. (Berlin).

Video
Monday 12 March 2012
Washington, D.C., United States

Arena Stage's Student Playwrights Project presented performances of the eight winning plays livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 12 March 2012 at 12 p.m. EST/ 11 a.m. CST/ 9 a.m. PST.

Video
Saturday 10 March 2012 

As part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Actors Theatre of Louisville presented the first of four panel discussions livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv  on Saturday 10 March 2012 at 11 a.m. EST / 10 a.m. CST.

Video
Friday 9 March 2012
Madison, IN, United States

Riverrun Theatre Company presented Seeing Red by David J. Loehr, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 9 March 2012 at 7:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. CST / 4:30 p.m. PST.

Essay
7 March 2012

Jamie Gahlon has asked theatre artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Tony Taccone continues this series.

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Essay
6 March 2012

This interview is adapted from the version that appears in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. Jack Reuler of Mixed Blood Theatre talks about the new metrics of measuring the impact of theatre.

A portrait of director diane paulus.
Essay
5 March 2012

In this excerpt from Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, Rebecca Novick talks with Diane Paulus about programming, audience engagement, and the role of dialogue in a theatre's relationship with its patrons.

A portrait of Dudley Cocke
Essay
4 March 2012

In this excerpt from Counting New Beans: Instrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, Dudley Cocke talks to Clayton Lord about Roadside Theater and its mission of encouraging conversation through theater in Appalacian communities.

Video

Exploring the Literary Practice of Tomorrow

Friday 24 February and Saturday 25 February 2012
Washington, DC

The convening 21st Century Literary Office: Exploring the Literary Practice of Tomorrow brought approximately forty theatremakers to Washington, DC to discuss their professions as literary managers, dramaturgs, artistic producers and other professionals involved in supporting, developing and/or producing new work.

Essay
22 February 2012

Playwright Anna Ziegler continues our series on the search for an artistic home, and talks about how sometimes home is not a place, but a group of people.

A large office building with a sign that says Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center.
Essay

An Invitation that will Blow Your Mind

21 February 2012

Woolly Mammoth's Miriam Weisfield introduces us to The Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, an exciting new iniative where technology and playwriting team up to engage audiences in ways never before seen.

Podcast

Philip Bither of The Walker

17 February 2012

David Dower talks with Philip Bither of The Walker in this week's Friday Phone Call.

Essay
17 February 2012

Victoria Stewart writes about the new play development problem in New York... and what the Big Apple can learn from the Twin Cities.

Essay
16 February 2012

Kira Oblenskey talks to Michelle Hensley, the founding artistic director of Ten Thousand Things in Minnesota, about the necessity of big stories, and the joys of bringing theater to audiences who have very little experience with it.

 

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