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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
Video
Thursday 12 February 2015
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Penn Cultural Heritage Center and the Penn Museum in Philadelphia presented a staged reading and discussion of My Father’s Bones—a short play by nationally renowned Native American writers and activists Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle— livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 February at 5:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 4:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 2:30 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 22:30 GMT (London).

Video
Tuesday 10 February 2015
MA, United States

 

Seth Lepore presented The Seth Show with the episode Love, Hate and Lust livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 February at 7 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Vancouver).

Essay

Robert McNamara

10 February 2015

Scena Theatre is small but ambitious, and in spite of its relatively low profile, it has thrived in Washington for twenty-seven years.  Founding artistic director Robert McNamara is tenaciously committed to bringing new work from around the world to D.C. audiences.

Video

A Conversation for The A.R.T. of Human Rights at Harvard University

Sunday 8 February 2015
Cambridge, MA, United States

The A.R.T. of Human Rights—a collaboration between the American Repertory Theater & Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University—presented the conversation Fighting for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Legacies livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 8 February at 5:15 p.m. EST (New York) / 4:15 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 2:15 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 22:15 GMT (London).

Essay

Making Space for Theatre In Boston

6 February 2015

One guy’s version of how the geography and history of Boston shaped its theatre scene, with a view on how to utilize and reform the space we occupy.

Video
Thursday 5 February 2015
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in rural Ashfield, Massachusetts presented A Conversation Between Two Ensembles: SITI Company and Double Edge Theatre  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 5 February at 6 p.m. EST (Montreal) / 5 p.m. CST (Austin) / 3 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 23:00 GMT (London). 

Essay

Do Taylor Mac et al Tickle or Terrify?

5 February 2015

"Audience participation" is a vague term, like much of theatrical terminology; it has come to mean different things to different people... What happens when the audience participates by becoming performers—without volunteering to do so?

Video
Tuesday 3 February 2015
MA, United States

Seth Lepore presented The Seth Show with the episode A Dignified Death  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 3 February at 7 p.m. EST (Toronto) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PST (Vancouver).

Essay
3 February 2015

Airline Highway is about community. D’Amour focuses the play not on their pain, but on their joy and celebration of a life fully lived, using the “living funeral” as a landscape to highlight her nuanced characters and their complex relationships.

Video
Sunday 1 February 2015
New York City, NY, United States

The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture presented The People's State of the Union—2015 Poetic Address to the Nation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 1 February at 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 23:30 GMT (London). Livestreaming by CultureHub at Bowery Poetry in New York City. 

Essay

A Story for Our Day

27 January 2015

Enrique's Journey, directed and adapted by Anthony J. Garcia, is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning  book of the same name by Sonia Nazario. The third production of Enrique’s Journey took place at the LATC's Encuentro 2014, performed by Su Teatro.

Video
Saturday 24 January 2015
Washington DC, United States

 

The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC presented the US Premiere of Amrika Chalo (Destination: USA) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 24 January at 8 p.m. EST (Washington, DC) / 5 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 01:00 GMT (London) on Sunday 25 January / 06:00 PKT (Lahore).

Video

A playwriting masterclass.

Saturday 24 January 2015
Cambridge, MA, United States

 

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University presented Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 24 January at 4:30 p.m. EST (Boston) / 21:30 GMT (London) / 3:30 p.m. CST (Austin) / 1:30 p.m. PST (Vancouver). 

Essay
23 January 2015

Jeni Incontro encourages the theatre industry to change the business model by embracing technology, filming performances, and giving theatregoers the option of watching whenever they’d like.

Essay

A Tale of Love and Art, Lost and Regained

20 January 2015

Teatro del Sol's Mariela en el desierto is a fantastic philosophical meditation on art and women artists obscured by the ambition of their partners, inhibited creativity, truth, beauty, and the sacrifices we make for our loved ones.

Video
Sunday 18 January 2015
Austin, TX, United States

Whirligig ProductionsShrewd Productions, and Fusebox presented Deus Ex Machina from Austin, Texas  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 18 January at 23:00 GMT (London)/ 6 p.m. EST (New York)/ 5 p.m. CST (Austin)/ 3 p.m. PST (Vancouver). Click here to view the livestream. Send text messages to +(1) 512-872-4637 during the performance.

Essay
18 January 2015

Avant-garde performer and director Paul Zimet offers a brief overview of his role in Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theater and his forty-year history with Talking Band.

logos for TDF and Theatre Bay Area.
Video
Friday 16 January and Saturday 17 January 2015
Boston, MA, United States

Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area announced the culmination of the eighteen‐month Triple Play Project with a convening of theatre practitioners from throughout the U.S. livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 January and Saturday 17 January 2015 from Emerson College.

Essay

Tricklock’s Revolution in the Southwest

13 January 2015

Georgina Escobar talks to Juli Hendren of Tricklock Company about Revolutions, an international festival held each year in Albuquerque, and the exciting symposium this year brings.

Video
Sunday 11 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

Camille A. Brown presented The Gathering 2015 livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 11 January at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York).

Essay

Julie Burros

11 January 2015

Boston’s new Chief of Arts and Culture, Julie Burros, took time recently to talk with P. Carl about her new role and the significance of being chief.

Video
Saturday 10 January 2015
San Francisco, CA, United States

The Shakespeare Theatre Association 2015 Conference presented the Shakespeare and New Work panel  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 10 January  2015 at 10:40 a.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 12:40 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 1:40 p.m. EST (New York).

Essay

Continue the Conversation

10 January 2015

Co-founders of St Lou Fringe Em Piro and Tara Daniels talk about how artists and institutions can continue the conversation started after #Ferguson, and how important it is to do so.

Video
9 January to 13 January 2015
New York, NY, United States

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) welcomed performing arts professionals and enthusiasts around the world to join us remotely for select plenary events featuring luminaries from the industry and for professional development sessions sharing best practices from the field during our APAP|NYC 2015 conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from 9 January to 13 January 2015.

Essay

The Process of Distillation

9 January 2015

Michael “Quess?” Moore explores why he wound up in residence in New Orleans at the DISTILLERY, and what he’s continuing to learn and experience.

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