The Commons Movement within the U.S. theater community envisions a culture of democratic access, active participation, and generous sharing in which institutions and individuals favor the collective "We" over the individual "Me" in order to drive creativity, growth, and innovation.
RESEARCH AGGREGATION
This page houses a growing collection of research projects and initiatives about the new works, #newplay sector.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OPEN HAPPENINGS
This page lists events and on-going initiatives that are open access and at times open source in nature.
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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.
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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.
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UNIVERSITY
Emerson College's Office of the Arts in Boston will be home for the new Center for the Theatre Commons / HowlRound.com
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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.
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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.
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Blog
Why Every Working Mother (Parent) Needs a Stage Manager by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three part series (find part one here) as she tries to balance rewrites and rehearsals with the challenges of being a working mom on
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Tlaloc Rivas: In Search of the Artistic Home
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Tlaloc Rivas continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An artistic home is a place where there are opportunities for community-building and for cross-cultural dialogue. There is also the
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In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loud Mouthed Feminist Theater Girl by Meghan Arnette
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In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loud Mouthed Feminist Theater Girl by Meghan Arnette
#NEWPLAY ON TWITTER
RT @HowlRound: #NEWPLAY JOURNAL: Liz Engelman: In Search of the Artistic Home http://t.co/a37OS2D9
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