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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
Video
Monday 25 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

You’re invited to join a post-reading discussion with Sarah RuhlGeshe Tashi DorjeeTenzin Gelek, and President of Tibet Fund Rinchen Dharlo livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 25 April at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 01:00 GMT (Tuesday, April 26).  In Twitter use #oldestboybenefit

Essay

A Defense of Smart People

26 April 2016

Anchuli Felicia King on the Second Stage production of Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People in New York.

Essay
26 April 2016

Playwright Natalie Sacks shares her post-graduate experience of working various theatre jobs, her take on the “starving artist” model, and her journey to writing her first play since college.

Video
Monday 25 April 2016
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 Monday 25 April 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).

Essay

Workshopping a New Play with a University

25 April 2016

Playwright Donna Hoke writes about an opportunity that allowed her to develop a new play on its feet in advance of a world premiere.

Video
Sunday 24 April 2016
Cosa Mesa, CA, United States

The South Coast Repertory presented The Wright Stuff livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 24 April at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) /11 a.m. CDT (Chicago) /12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 16:00 GMT / 5 p.m. BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation. 

Essay
24 April 2016

JD Caudill writes about his personal experiences navigating Chicago as an early career director, and asks how the field can better support such artists.

Video
Saturday 23 April 2016
Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Kilolo Luckett and Jessica Lynne presented the inaugural By Any Means (BAM) symposium on black contemporary arts livestreamed from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 23 April from 10 a.m. EDT to 3 p.m. EDT (New York) / 7 a.m. PDT to 12 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 14:00 GMT to 19:00 GMT / 3 p.m. BST to 8 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv

Essay
23 April 2016

Sara Katzoff writes about Kickwheel Ensemble Theater’s creation of Passage, a physical theatre comedy. 

Essay

Going Backwards to Move Forward

21 April 2016

Playwright Elaine Ávila shares her process and inspiration for writing her play Kitimat, which is based on a true story about the Kitimat community. 

Essay
21 April 2016

Marisela Treviño Orta interviews Javier Muñoz, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s alternate in Hamilton.

Essay
20 April 2016

Director and educator Theresa May writes about the potential of theatre about climate change to affect hearts and minds.

Essay
19 April 2016

Ellen Mareneck on David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord, directed by David Hyde Pierce at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. 

Video
Monday 18 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented a reading of Paula Vogel's Indecent livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 18 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York). 

Video
Monday 18 April 2016
Princeton, NJ, United States

 The McCarter Theatre Center and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts presented The Ground on Which We Stand: Diversity and Opportunity in American Theatre, Twenty Years after August Wilson’s Foundational Speech livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 18 April at 10:30 a.m. PDT-3 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 12:30 p.m. CDT-5 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:30 p.m. EDT-6 p.m. EDT (New York). 

Essay
17 April 2016

In this installment, Damon Krometis discusses the Boston premiere of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and the ways this production positioned the audience as both spectators and participants.

Video
Saturday 16 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Playwrights HorizonsAntlia Pneumatica Symposium: Where the Playwright Asks the Questions with Anne Washburn livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 16 April at 21:00 BST (London) / 20:00 GMT / 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 1 p.m. PDT (Vancouver). In Twitter, use #howlround

Collage of theatre artists gathering and speaking at the From Scarcity to Abundance convening.
Video
Friday 15 April 2016
Seattle, WA, United States

Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) proudly presented the LTC Pacific Northwest Convening Opening Ceremonies livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 15 April at 8 p.m. PDT-10 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 10 p.m. CDT-12 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 11 p.m. EDT-1 a.m. EDT (New York).

Essay

Never Spread Yourself Too Thin

16 April 2016

In this second installment, Ricky Young-Howze shares a lesson he learned while wearing multiple hats in his theatre company.

Video
Friday and Saturday, 15-16 April 2016
Bay Area, CA, United States

ArtChangeUS: Arts in a Changing America presented REMAP Bay Area livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday and Saturday, 15-16 April 2016. See the livestream schedule below. In Twitter, use hashtags #ArtChangeUS and #HowlRound. Follow @ArtChangeUS and @HowlRoundTV.

Essay

Lessons from BOOMERANG

15 April 2016

Playwright Will Arbery shares his experience working with BOOMERANG Dance Company and how movement informs his writing process.

Essay

Designing Temporary Body Modification

15 April 2016

Costume Designer M.L. Hart parallels the principles and concepts of costume and makeup design to body modification.

Essay
13 April 2016

Christopher Goodson interviews Latina theatre artists Nelda Reyes, Rose Cano, and Carmen Aguirre about their thoughts on the current climate for Latina/o work in the Pacific Northwest.

Essay

The Resurrected Corpus of Ivo van Hove’s A View From the Bridge

12 April 2016

Olivia Rubino-Finn on the Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo van Hove. 

Video
Monday 11 April 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Spalding Gray: A Celebration of his Life and Work livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 11 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 23:30 BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

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