This is the first contribution to HowlRound’s City Series. Over the next few months we will explore the theater scene in cities from around the country. We’ve asked members of our editorial board to kick the series off, and they’ve asked artists from their cities to contribute articles and blog
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1. I’ve got a game. Ready? You pick three people, or objects, or places, or concepts, and place each of them in the following categories— 1. Chuck: You get rid of immediately. 2. Fuck: You have a short period of wild passion and never to meet again. 3. Marry: You
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I’m a musical theater composer. It’s with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely aware of the stigma of the term “musical theater,” of all it has come to connote and the kneejerk reactions the genre tends to
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I hear more and more stories focused on ways of partnering, of aligning resources and competencies. I think we are going to hear more stories about community connections and ways in which new work is relating to the world. I think we’re going to start hearing more stories about how old barriers are falling—things like the changes taking place in the way we can use technology to connect and promote our work, or collaborations that right now seem impossible between different organizations and aesthetics. I think we’re actually going to start seeing stories about successes…—David Dower
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