Category Archives: Happenings & Announcements

The Weekly Howl on Tuesday, May 15: Vote for what you want to talk about!

Riffing off the “demand-side” concept that Cheryl Ikemiya talks about in the recent David Dower Friday Phone Call, we at HowlRound want to know what you—the #newplay community on Twitter—want to discuss in this week’s Weekly Howl. Submit and vote on your favorite topics here! And while you’re at it, click on these
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The Weekly Howl on Tues, April 24: “Please, Don’t Start a Theater Company,” or Let’s Figure out the Future

Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the “#newplay” tag. Tomorrow we’ll take Rebecca Novick’s article “Please, Don’t Start a Theater Company! Next-Generation Arts Institutions and Alternative Career Paths“ as a starting point to discuss alternative models for supporting theater work and a career in the theater and
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To My Beloved Colleagues who Make Things by Melanie Joseph & the Foundry Theatre

 As some of you may know, The Foundry Theatre frequently hosts different sorts of public events (separate from our productions) where artists might find meaningful exchange with people outside of our own community and practice—both as a way to assert our presence and significance in building the world and hopefully
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The Weekly Howl on Tues, April 17: What can the Center for the Theater Commons do for you?

This week on HowlRound.com we’re talking about the move of several of the American Voices New Play Institute’s programs and staff from Arena Stage in Washington, DC to the newly formed Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College in Boston. For this week’s Howl on Twitter, we want to
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