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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

A playwriting masterclass

Monday 22 February 2016
New York City, 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 22 February 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

From Panza to Las Hociconas: Performance Pedagogy in the Chicana/o Studies Classroom

22 February 2016

Magda García writes about how, as a teaching assistant, she incorporated a performance element into an undergraduate Intro to Chicana/o Studies course at University of California Santa Barbara.

Essay

Returns, Love, and Ovid’s Lessons of Change

21 February 2016

Playwright Damon Falke discusses his play Laura, or Scenes from a Common World and how “Apollo and Daphne” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired his work.

Essay

Successfully Transitioning from Student to Practitioner in the Theatre Arts

20 February 2016

Christina Cook describes her transition from an MFA program into life as a freelance designer.

Essay
20 February 2016

Malesha Taylor shares her experience working in audience development and emphasizes the need for regional theatres to continue building relationships with diverse audiences. 

Essay

PortLAND

19 February 2016

In the first installment of her new series, Joan Marie Hurwit writes about spending time in Portland, Oregon, and how art is playing a role in a city in transition.

Essay
19 February 2016

Playwright Donna Hoke discusses her play The Way It Is, which includes the rape of a male character, and the response she got from readers.

Essay
18 February 2016

Carlos Morton on the recent Los Angeles production of José Sanchis Sinisterra’s Ay Carmela

Essay

What Three Playwrights Learned Making a Web Series

18 February 2016

Playwright Seamus Sullivan writes about the process of remaking Hamlet as a noir-infused web series.

Essay

Shifting a Playwright’s Perspective

17 February 2016

Playwright Pat Gabridge describes the experience of seeing the same production of his play in Massachusetts and Maryland.

Video

With Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright of Disgraced

Monday 15 February 2016
St. Louis, MO, United States

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presented the panel discussion Public Perceptions of Islam in Post-9/11 America livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 February at 8:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 7:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles). In Twitter, follow @howlroundtv and use hashtag #howlround

Essay

Dramaturgy Open Office Hours Branches Out

16 February 2016

Dramaturgs Amanda Boyle and Alyson Germinder share their experience with hosting the Dramaturgy Open Office Hour Project in Kansas City, MO.

Essay

Ping Chong + Company

15 February 2016

In this installment, David Dudley interviews Ping Chong and Sara Zatz from Ping Chong + Company. 

Video
Sunday 14 February 2016
New York, NY, United States

Livestreamed a memorial concert, celebrating the life and work of internationally renowned award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados featuring performers, speakers, and artists who have worked with Liz over the course of her extensive career in a diversity of artistic communities. The event broadcasted from the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa ETC in New York City on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 14 February at 20:00 GMT (London) / 3 p.m. EST (New York) / 2 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 12 p.m. PST (Los Angeles).

Video
Sunday 14 February to Friday 19 February 2016
Denver, CO, United States

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts presented three events from the 2016 Colorado New Play Summit livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 14 February to Friday 19 February. In Twitter, use #CNPS16 and #HowlRound. Follow @HowlRoundTV and @DenverCenter for updates.

Essay
14 February 2016

In this last installment, Producing Artistic Director Tami Dixon reflects on the role of the actor’s relationship with audience members in immersive theatre. 

Essay

Designing a New Career

14 February 2016

Seth Tyler Black shares stories and tips of theatre artists and practitioners who transitioned into the film industry.

Video
Friday 12 February 2016
Boston, MA, United States

Emerson College in Boston presented a conversation with Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Friday 12 February at 7 a.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 9 a.m. CST (Chicago) / 10 a.m. EST (New York) / 15:00 GMT (London). In Twitter, follow @howlroundtv and use #howlround.

Essay
12 February 2016

Billy McEntee traces the social history connected to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which premiered on Broadway in 1953 during the height of McCarthyism.

Essay

Elliot

11 February 2016

Amauta Marston-Firmino on Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s The Art Of Luv (Part 1): Elliot at the Under The Radar Festival in New York City.

Video

Controversies and Interventions in the Theatre

Tuesday 9 February 2016
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson in Boston presented the panel discussion Interrogating Whiteness Part II: Controversies and Interventions in the Theatre livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Tuesday 9 February. In Twitter, use #howlround to participate in the conversation and follow @howlroundtv

Essay

Max Gets Mail (The First Response Is In)

9 February 2016

Mya Kagan reveals the first response to a script submitted under the name Max.

A woman dressed in red looking in a hand held mirror.
Essay

Five Elements in Sleep No More, Then She Fell, and More

9 February 2016

Jonathan Mandell explores five common elements in immersive theatre, and what makes immersive theatre successful.

Video

A playwriting masterclass

Monday 8 February 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 8 February 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
8 February 2016

John Becker contemplates the role of artists in this contemporary, polarized political climate.

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