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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

a season at Victory Gardens Theater

14 September 2015

Fran Kumin interviews Chay Yew, Aristic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago about season planning.

Essay
13 September 2015

In this first post in our series on season planning, Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Bill Rauch discusses the process for programming his eleven-show seasons.

Video
Saturday 12 September 2015
Putney, VT, United States

Sandglass Theater in Putney, Vermont, USA presents six conversations from the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday, September 12 to Sunday, September 20. In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv.

Video
Friday, September 11 2015
Miami, FL, United States

MDC Live Arts presents Conscience Under Fire livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday, September 11 at 8pm EDT (New York) / 7pm CDT (Chicago) / 5pm PDT (Los Angeles). In Twitter follow @mdclivearts and @howlroundtv and use #liveat25 and #mdclivearts.

Essay

Confronting the Challenges of Producing Important Work

12 September 2015

Producer Jack Eidson writes about the challenges he’s faced casting  The Lilliput Troupe  with little person actors.

Essay
11 September 2015

Professor Erin Mee discusses her decision to re-tweet Jeremy Gable’s The 15th Line and the dramaturgical questions she has for the project.

Essay

A Requiem

11 September 2015

Neal Reynolds on American Theatre Company’s Youth Ensemble production of Greensboro: A Requiem by Emily Mann in Chicago, Illinois.

Essay

When Theatre Connects with Reality

11 September 2015

Playwright Jeremy Gable discusses his process and the aftermath for creating his Twitter play The 15th Line.

Podcast

Elena Araoz, Part One

10 September 2015

In this podcast series, Matthew Gray interviews all kinds of actors to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest rates, reduced network pick-ups, and a dying regional theatre circuit. Find it in iTunes.

Essay

Latinx Theatre Commons’ Carnaval 2015

8 September 2015

Tiffany Ana López on the LTC’s Carnaval of New Latina/o Work hosted by the Theatre School at DePaul University July 23-25, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.

Essay

a latina hip-hop Antigone

7 September 2015

Playwright José Casas discusses Rising Youth Theatre’s process for incorporating hip-hop in its upcoming project for theatre for young audiences.

Essay

Octavio Solis

7 September 2015

Brian Herrera interviews playwright Octavio Solis about the process of writing and developing Mother Road.

Essay

Writing for Diverse Audiences

6 September 2015

Hayley Finn interviews playwright Kira Obolensky about her work with and residency at Ten Thousand Things in Minneapolis.

Essay

Producing Intimate Theatre in Intimate Spaces

6 September 2015

Playwright Paul Heller describes his process for self-producing his current work in living rooms and nursing homes.

Video
Friday 4 September 2015
Austin, TX, United States

The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented Hunger by local playwright and poet Ebony Stewart livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 4 September at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 6 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 01:00 GMT Saturday 5 September / 11 a.m. AEST Saturday 5 September (Sydney). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @HowlRoundTV.

Photo from Ash Tree.
Essay

Georgina Escobar

4 September 2015

Carla Della Gatta interviews Georgina Escobar about her writing process and upcoming projects following Carnaval.

Essay
4 September 2015

A report out on 2015 LTC Carnaval Breakout Sessions on advocacy, artmaking, convening/networking, and scholarship. 

Essay

A Measured Look at Puppet Building

3 September 2015

Puppet builder Matthew Laird discusses the joys and challenges of crafting puppets for live performance.

Essay
3 September 2015

Jonathan Mandell looks at the recent cell phone fury, especially among prominent performers, and offers a different take on theatre etiquette.

Essay
1 September 2015

Puppeteer James Godwin explores the philosophical and spiritual implications of puppetry.

Essay
1 September 2015

Melissa Bergstrom discusses her journey toward accepting a personal definition of success as a theatre artist.

Essay
31 August 2015

Solo puppet artist Marsian De Lellis discusses their inspiration and process for creating object/puppet theatre.

Essay

Playwriting

31 August 2015

In the first installment of his series, writer and actor Eli Keel discusses the state of new work in Kentucky and some of its key players.

Video
Friday 28 August - Sunday 30 August 2015
Fayette, ME, United States

The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) presented the NET 2015 National Gathering livestreamed on the HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv Friday 28 August - Sunday 30 August from Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine.

Essay
29 August 2015

ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower shares the process behind programming the company’s 2015/2016 season.

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