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Podcast
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
Essay

Virtual Reality and the Trump Effect

31 May 2017

Director and dramaturg Linda Lombardi discusses Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies the Bone, and examines how changes to our political climate effect audience reaction.

Video
Tuesday 30 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented an artist talk with Tadashi Suzuki livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 30 May at 12:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9:00 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

An Audience Makes Meaning Together

29 May 2017

What can we learn about audience engagement and how and why audiences make meaning out of experimental theatre from a twenty-four-year performance experiment?

Video
Sunday 28 May 2017
Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, California presented a performance of I Carry Your Heart by Georgette Kelly livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 28 May at 5:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 4:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay
28 May 2017

Sarah Ruhl on The Lilly Awards, criticism, and the power of mothers.

Essay
27 May 2017

Alyssa White writes about being an early career director in Chicago, and re-discovering her love of the work.

Video
Friday 26 May 2017
Cleveland, OH, United States

Playwrights Local presented the world premiere of Things as They Are—a new play about poet Wallace Stevens by David Todd, with music by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)—at Reinberger Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network on Friday 26 May at 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

Essay

 The Drama in the Data

26 May 2017

Holly L. Derr looks at ethnodrama and Her Opponent, a restaging of excerpts of the 2016 presidential debates with gender-reversed casting.

Essay

The Djerassi Playwrights Initiative

24 May 2017

Andrew Saito, participant in the Djerassi Playwrights Initiative, speaks to his experience at the residency.

Essay
23 May 2017

Arlene Martínez-Vázquez discusses the rise of bilingual, Latinx plays produced in Seattle, Washington, advocating for hiring bilingual, Latinx artists involved in the programming and decision-making for these shows.

Video
Monday 22 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Lilly Awards proudly presented The 8th Annual Lilly Awards, honoring women of distinction in the American theater livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 22 May, at 5 p.m. EDT (New York) / 4 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Use #LillyAwards and #howlround on Twitter. 

Essay

An Interview with Ty Defoe

21 May 2017

Ryan Leeds interviews Ty Defoe about winning the Jonathan Larson Grant, his show Crane: On Earth, In Sky, and how his identity influences his work.

Essay

Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America

20 May 2017

Yuko Kurahashi talks about the Collidescope 3.0 project, which uses movement, video projections, and soundscape to explore black and white relations in American history.

Essay

Choosing the “Best” Person for the Job

20 May 2017

Director Carol Ann Tan explores her reaction to the question of whether it's easier for her to get work because she's Asian.

Video
Thursday 18 May 2017
New York City, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Dramaturgy in the Making with Katalin Trencsényi, Peter Eckersall, Bertie Ferdman livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 18 May at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

on Interpreting Classic Drama

17 May 2017

Director Andrew Watkins writes about getting to the heart of Strindberg's problematic classic. 

Video
Monday 15 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented 50 Years of Theatre of the Ridiculous​ livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 May at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Podcast

Exploring the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’s New Jo Mielziner Acquisitions with Annemarie van Roessel

15 May 2017

Michael Lueger talks with curator Annemarie van Roessel about scenic designer Jo Mielziner’s work.

Essay

An Earthworm’s Resistance to Normalize Difference

15 May 2017

Actor Billy Flood discusses his performance as the Earthworm in StageOne Family Theatre’s production of James and the Giant Peach, sharing how he engaged with the role to resist gender norms.

Video
Friday 12 May 2017
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented Promised Land: A Radical Queer Revival — conceived, written, and performed by Rudy Ramirez—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 12 May at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay
13 May 2017

Airness uses air guitar to ask what is real. The answer: the families we make.

Video
Friday 12 May 2017
Somerville, MA, United States

Weyard Ensemble Theater presented a performance of Much Ado About Nothing: A Reading in the Original Pronunciation at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 12 May at 7:30 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

Essay
12 May 2017

Robert Stanton for #FairWageOnstage considers the recent success of negotiations for salary increases for Off-Broadway actors and how theatre can support and lead the resistance to oppressive political administrations.

Video

An interdisciplinary conference

Thursday 11 May 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Approaching Dance: Transdisciplinary Methodologies and Modalities of the Moving Body in Performance at The Doctoral Students Association 2017 Conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 11 May at 4:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

Essay

Mysticism of the Absurd

11 May 2017

Tom Block writes about how Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu's ideas can provide inspiration for theatre artists.

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