HowlRound Theatre Commons

Next week on HowlRound TV: HowlRound TV producer Thea Rodgers kicks off a 3-part series exploring digital privacy. The first session on Wednesday 4/23 will cover making a digital privacy plan, review best practices, take a look at tracker-free internet browsers, and more!

As part of Zoukak Theatre’s Letters from the Ground initiative, Sahar Assaf asks theatre leaders who have not spoken out for Palestine a simple question: Why? howlround.com/when-will-we-t…

Last January, the theatre community lost Diane Ragsdale, whose career as a foundation program officer, presenter and educator touched many. In this transcript of a virtual memorial service for Diane, a group shares memories and where they saw her impact. howlround.com/remembering-ou…

Playwright Javaad Alipoor’s trilogy of plays interrogates how technology, global politics, and fracturing identities are changing our world. He reflects on tech adaptations and political circumstances' impact on the context of the work.💻 howlround.com/catching-histo…

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🎧New today From the Ground Up Podcast: Current members of Studio Luna chronicle their twenty-five-year history and the evolution of their practice, programming, and location—most notably from their origin in Chicago to Los Angeles. howlround.com/studio-lunas-e…

New today on HowlRound: Theatre Advocay Project (TAP) offers tools to create safer and more equitable working conditions for all theatre professionals. Amelia Parenteau discusses the organization with co-founders Caylin Waller and Colette Gregory. howlround.com/theatre-advoca…

New today on HowlRound: The premise of the solo show ha ha ha ha ha ha ha is simple: Julia Masli will seriously solve the audience’s problems through comedy. Melissa Lin Sturges discusses the show's roots in Masli’s clowning background. howlround.com/clowning-aroun…

Palestinian filmmaker Basma al-Sharif dives into her award-winning pieces to discuss film as performance art. This discussion leads into the role of activism in the arts and the ways film responds to and comments on current events. 🎧🔗 howlround.com/experimental-f…

Performing artist and teacher Emily Kitchens highlights the discrimination against fat people within theatre and discusses the need to advocate for fat acceptance by literally expanding our spaces. howlround.com/theatre-needs-…

🎧Universities and museums are some of the last strongholds of festival circuits providing rare exposure to international and avant-garde artists. This episode explores how ensembles find their way onto such a path. howlround.com/curating-unive…

Hosts Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson and guest artist Laila Abdo utilize Laila’s latest project The Great Pyramid Scheme to discuss how comedy can be used as a powerful form of representation. 🎧howlround.com/narrative-podc…

New today from Kunafa & Shay: 🎧Palestinian performance artist Riham Isaac discusses her site-specific performances, and performance as a medium for change. She shares insights into her pieces and the profound symbolism of resistance in Palestinian art. ​​ howlround.com/site-specific-…

Access for disabled theatre artists within the theatre industry is lacking, and pathways for those in production disciplines to enter the industry are particularly neglected. Wilner highlights this neglect and offers ideas to increase access. howlround.com/disabled-theat…

New on HowlRound: Citlali Pizarro draws on her experience with incarcerated poets, and learnings from Sing Sing Correctional Facility’s Rehabilitation Through the Arts program to explore how common narratives about creating theatre in prison fall short. howlround.com/what-sing-sing…

New on HowlRound: Access dramaturgy practices integrating access creatively and collaboratively in performance from the earliest moments of the creative process. Alison Kopit, in collaboration with Ann Marie Dorr and Maggie Bridger, introduced this work howlround.com/introducing-ac…

🎧New today from Kunafa & Shay: Exploring experimentalism and futurism with artist Leyya Mona Tawil, aka Lime Rickey International. Leyya discusses her work and the power of art as a tool for exploring diasporic experiences and envisioning complex futures. howlround.com/arab-experimen…

🎧After beginning her theatrical work by writing for a collective, Deb Margolin has had an expansive solo career. She takes us through the highs and lows of socially sustainable work as a playwright who best understands her scripts through the body. howlround.com/desire-and-col…