The Weekly Howl (Special Editions) on Twitter hashtag #newplay
"High School Theater" on Wed, Nov 20 and "Artistic Risk" on Thurs, Nov 21
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The Weekly Howl is a commons based, peer produced, open access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.
We will have "special edition" Howls this Wednesday, November 20 and on Thursday, November 21. Both days' conversations happen at 11am PST – 12pm PST (Los Angeles) / 1pm CST – 2pm CST (Austin) / 2pm EST – 3pm EST (New York) / 19:00 GMT – 20:00 GMT (London) / 8pm CET - 9pm CET (Berlin).
Wednesday's topic is "High School Theater" and will be moderated by playwright Don Zolidis @donzolidis. See this week's Essays, Practice, Opinion posts on this topic.
Thursday's topic is "Artistic Risk" and will be moderated by The Playwrights' Center @pwcenter. View their recent HowlRound TV panel discussion on "Epic Theater" from which this topic emerged.
On both days, get heard in the conversation by searching for #newplay in Twitter (sort by “all”) and by putting “#newplay” somewhere in all your messages. Spread the word!
*The hashtag #newplay in Twitter is a commons tag (i.e. non-proprietary, community-invested tag) for aggregating global knowledge, information, and conversation related to new works, new performance, and new strategies in the theater.
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