Research

RESEARCH AGGREGATION
This page houses a growing collection of research projects and initiatives about the new works, #newplay sector.

#NEWPLAY TV

KNOWLEDGE COMMONS
#NEWPLAY TV's mission is to be the field's shared-resourced that breaks geographic isolation, promotes resource sharing, and develops our knowledge commons collectively.

New Play Map

KNOWLEDGE COMMONS
The New Play Map project seeks to change the 'mental map' we have of the theater field. Community-generated and designed, it's an infrastructure map of new works projects, artists, organizations.

#NEWPLAY News Sourcing

COMMUNITY SOURCED
In the open-access hashtag #NEWPLAY Twitter community, everyone is a potential source of information and contributor to collective advancement. To participate, put #newplay in your Twitter messages.

Happenings

OPEN HAPPENINGS
This page lists events and on-going initiatives that are open access and at times open source in nature.

NEWPLAY.US

COMMUNITY SOURCED "#NEWPLAY is us."  A community sourced video project that's simply about recording a video that answers a question or proposing a question to the community.

New York Times Critic Watch

OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH
Microfund for Artists Project: A community-sourced research project that aims to evaluate every New York Times review of new theater work for one calendar year.

Emerson College

UNIVERSITY
Emerson College's Office of the Arts in Boston will be home for the new Center for the Theatre Commons / HowlRound.com

Shareable.net Article

PUBLICATION
This article published by Shareable.net discusses the origins and the needs for the theatre field to develop commons and design itself around a commons' ethos.

Center for Performance and Civic Practice

OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH
Microfund for Artists Project: Research, Practice and Partnerships. Michael Rohd explores the 'Civic Theatre' movement, aiming to bring artists and public process together via advocacy that builds bridges and capacity.