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Artistic Leadership: Toward Equitable Search and Support
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Artistic Leadership: Toward Equitable Search and Support
A Conversation About What Equitable Search and Support Really Looks Like for Artistic Directors
Monday 13 November 2023
United States
Shakespeare Against the Canon in Our Verse in Time to Come
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Shakespeare Against the Canon in Our Verse in Time to Come
by Melissa Lin Sturges, Karen Ann Daniels, Malik Work, John Ray Proctor III
22 August 2023
The Artistic Caucus: How Four Theatres Joined Forces to Disrupt Curatorial Practices
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The Artistic Caucus: How Four Theatres Joined Forces to Disrupt Curatorial Practices
by Lauren Halvorsen
13 July 2023
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The Hub Theatre’s Abominable Sheds Light on the Beast Within
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The Hub Theatre’s Abominable Sheds Light on the Beast Within

21 August 2014

Patricia Davis reviews Hub Theatre’s Abominable, by Helen Pafumi, discussing how the play looks at violence and bullying.

Participants of the One-Minute Play Festival.
Race, Gender, Sex, and Rights Pulse Through DC’s One-Minute Festival
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Race, Gender, Sex, and Rights Pulse Through DC’s One-Minute Festival

31 July 2014

Patricia Davis writes about Roundhouse Theater's first One-Minute Play Festival, which featured ninety new plays from over sixty local playwrights.

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The 1st Washington, D.C. One-Minute Play Festival
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The 1st Washington, D.C. One-Minute Play Festival

#1MPF

Sunday 13 July 2014
Washington, D.C., United States

One-Minute Play Festival and Round House Theatre presented an evening of micro plays by over 50 of the DC area’s best playwrights livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 13 July at 5 p.m. PDT/ 7 p.m. CDT/ 8 p.m. EDT. 

Director Stevie Zimmerman Brings Fresh Energy to DC
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Director Stevie Zimmerman Brings Fresh Energy to DC

8 July 2014

Patricia Davis interviews DC-based director Stevie Zimmerman, discussing casting, directing styles, and the challenges of new work.

Towards a New Collective in American Theater, Part Two
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Towards a New Collective in American Theater, Part Two

7 July 2014

The Welders is a new DC-based playwrights’ collective whose mission is to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play development and production. Over the course of three years, the collective will produce one play by each of the group’s five member playwrights and then give the entire organization—website, checkbook, and audience—to a new generation of artists. In a periodic series of articles, members of The Welders are going to be reporting on the collective’s experience in an attempt to share knowledge with (and learn from) the broader theatrical community.

Original Plays Created by 100+ Young Artists at the Voices of Now Festival
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Original Plays Created by 100+ Young Artists at the Voices of Now Festival

Friday 16 May and on Saturday 17 May 2014
Washington, D.C., United States

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presented the Voices of Now Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 May and on Saturday 17 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv. Use Twitter hashtag #howlround to comment and share.

The Love of the Nightingale in Washington, D.C.
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The Love of the Nightingale in Washington, D.C.

15 May 2014

Patricia Davis reviews the Constellation Theatre's production of The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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Performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) at force/collision
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Performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) at force/collision

Sunday 20 April 2014
Washington, D.C., United States

force/collision presented a performance of Jarman (all this maddening beauty) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 20 April at 1 p.m. PDT/ 3 p.m. CDT/ 4 p.m. EDT/ 9 p.m. BST

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Why is Jewish Theater Producing Asian American Plays?
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Why is Jewish Theater Producing Asian American Plays?

12 March 2014

We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the meaningful questions it raises about the parameters of identity. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because of the revealing and resonant glimpse it gives at immigrant families in the United States; because of its multi-layered examination of the “American Dream”; because of the uproarious and irreverent way it uses humor to expose darker themes. We chose to do "Yellow Face" because clearly, it’s a Jewish play!

Florence Foster Jenkins
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Florence Foster Jenkins

The Unlikely Soprano

11 March 2014

Patricia Davis reviews 1st Stage's production of Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir: a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins.

Triple Play Discussion Series at Theatre Development Fund 
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Triple Play Discussion Series at Theatre Development Fund 

Wednesday 26 February 2014
New York, NY, United States

Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area hosted a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what most effectively links audiences, generative artists and the theaters who produce them livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv. The third of six discussions was in New York on Wednesday 26 February at 11 a.m. PST (San Francisco) / 1 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 2 p.m. EST (New York City).

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Triple Play Discussion Series at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Theatre Bay Area
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Triple Play Discussion Series at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Thursday 6 February 2014
Washington, D.C., United States

Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area as they host a series of six roundtable discussions intended to uncover the best new thinking and practices around what most effectively links audiences, generative artists and the theatres who produce themlivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv. To participate in the online discussion use #trplplay and @theatrebayarea and the local host’s handle. The first discussion is on Thursday 6 February at 11 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. CST / 2 p.m. EST at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. @WoollyMammothTC.

Two actors stand onstage facing each other, reading from sheets of paper.
Vaclav Havel’s Protest Tackles the Dangers of Conformity
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Vaclav Havel’s Protest Tackles the Dangers of Conformity

16 January 2014

Patricia Davis reviews Ambassador Theater's production of Protest, written by the Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel, directed by Gail Humphries Mardirosian.

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Towards a New Collective in American Theater, Part One
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Towards a New Collective in American Theater, Part One

3 January 2014

Tired of waiting for a production and the loneliness writing entails, The Welders formed to take action. The warm reception made them realize how much can be done when having a community.

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Taffety Punk’s Riot Grrrls Wring Humor from Titus Andronicus
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Taffety Punk’s Riot Grrrls Wring Humor from Titus Andronicus

7 November 2013

Patricia Davis reviews Taffety Punks' production of the unproducable: a humorous interpretation of Titus Andronicus, presented by the all-female Riot Grrrls.

Photo from After The Revolution.
The Cost of Truth in Theater J’s After the Revolution
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The Cost of Truth in Theater J’s After the Revolution

10 October 2013

Theater J, whose mission is to produce plays that are politically engaged and thought provoking, as well as personal, passionate, and entertaining, could not have selected a better play for the current moment.

Lisa Wolpe as Hamlet.
Playing Shakespeare’s Men
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Playing Shakespeare’s Men

8 October 2013

Holly L. Derr writes about different all-female productions of Shakespeare's plays and how this opens up further opportunities for discussion about gender, relationships, and the timelessness of the stories.

The Dramaturg Corps of the Potomac
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The Dramaturg Corps of the Potomac

Training New Play Dramaturgs

16 August 2013

Matt McGeachy reports on the New Play Dramaturgy Intensive at the Kennedy Center, and how listening is much better than speaking when it comes to developing new work.

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The Theater of the Furrowed Brow
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The Theater of the Furrowed Brow

28 July 2013

Norman Allen shares insight into writing a play about Isadora Duncan's life in Bolshevik Russia through the eyes of her adopted daughter Irma.

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Theater J’s Hampton Years
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Theater J’s Hampton Years

Vision and Courage in the World War II South

23 July 2013

Patricia Davis reviews The Hampton Years at Theater J, and how the production's content is just as subversive as the context in which the play is being produced.

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force/collision's Trust me at Arena Stage in Washington DC
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force/collision's Trust me at Arena Stage in Washington DC

Sunday 16 June 2013
Washington, D.C., United States

 

 

Arena Stage in Washington, DC presented a work-in-progess performance of force/collision's Trust Me livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 June 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York).

Photo from a production of Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh and Guantanamo
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Gilgamesh and Guantanamo

D.C. Theater Explores the Spoils of War

13 June 2013

An apt topic of the DC Stage, Jesus at Guantanamo and Gilgamesh explore power and abuse through the failings of heroes

Actors onstage during the Voices of Now Festival.
Voices of Now Youth Ensemble Performances at Arena Stage
Arena Stage
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Voices of Now Youth Ensemble Performances at Arena Stage

Friday 17 May 2013
Washington, D.C., United States

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presented the third annual Voices of Now Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 17 May 2013 at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 23:30 GMT. View the conversion into your local time.

NNPN National Showcase of New Plays at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
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National New Play Network
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NNPN National Showcase of New Plays at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Thursday 29 November to Sunday 2 December 2012
Washington, D.C., United States

The National New Play Network (NNPN) presented the National Showcase of New Plays at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Thursday 29 November to Sunday 2 December 2012.

Convening on Global Performance at Georgetown University Theater
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The Lab at Georgetown
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Convening on Global Performance at Georgetown University Theater

Thursday 14 June - Saturday 16 June 2012
Washington, D.C., United States

The Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program hosted an invited convening on Global Performance, Civic Imagination, and Cultural Diplomacy livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 14 June - Saturday 16 June 2012.