HowlRound Theatre Commons

We’ve got some exciting news to share! Beginning in January 2026, HowlRound will be fiscally sponsored by Producer Hub, a New York-based nonprofit organization and connective space for independent producers, artists, and other arts workers creating live performance. #theatre #theater

You can revisit our conversation w/ @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social about SALOME here at @howlround.bsky.social: howlround.com/theatre-hist...

Iranian Girlfriend explores the complex relationship between fact and fiction—a dynamic that played out in its journey from autobiographical essay to autofictional play. Creator SB Tennent discusses the play’s origins, process, and ambitions with Georgia Evans. #theatre howlround.com/crafting-aut...

Ash Marinaccio and the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group discuss investigative theatre, how artists blend research, interviews, and emotional truth to create new work. They discuss new play development, ethics, community, and why “live bodies in a room” still matter. howlround.com/process-and-...

Ash Marinaccio speaks with the Creative Pathways team at the Genesis Center in Providence about how documentary theatre is used alongside drama therapy to support newly arrived immigrants and refugees in sharing their stories, building community, and learning English.⁠ howlround.com/autobiograph...

Ash Marinaccio takes a deep dive into how anthropology and theatre collide as Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti share the origins of their collaboration and how ethnography, theory, and devised practice fuel their creative work. #theatre #theater howlround.com/between-thea...

What levels of change and accountability are we responsible for? Professor Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Sara Porkalob to consider this question in light of both her recent work on Dragon Baby and her experiences with virality and accountability at multiple scales. howlround.com/accounting-c...

This series should be required reading for theater professionals. I’m so grateful for these incredible artists offering their wisdom & vulnerability

Playwright Tomi Endter imagines a future fifty years from now when American theatre has finally centered Native voices. She looks back at how the industry transformed from exclusion to the celebration of Native stories and artists. #theatre #theater #theatresky howlround.com/all-together...

Madeline Easley details an experience working with the Wyandots of Kansas while writing a new play for Kansas City Repertory Theatre that touched on deep, nuanced, multi-governmental politics—and how that contrasts with her other experiences in the American theatre. howlround.com/responsibili...

Chingwe Padraig Sullivan shares findings and impacts of the recent Native Theatre Community Town Hall on representation, erasure, and accountability in the American theatre, which was hosted by HERE Arts Center. #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/earnest-call...

Native theatremakers have been combatting harmful representations of Native people in theatre for many years. Quita Sullivan, Mary Kathryn Nagle, and Betsy Richards discuss their work to push back from within institutions.⁠ #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/loud-and-cle...

Tara Moses introduces the series The Unspoken Treaty, outlines how the “American theatre” got here, details key takeaways from the upcoming series, and offers an invitation to institutional leaders to move from being unsettled to galvanized. #theatre #theater howlround.com/its-time-mov...

Ash Marinaccio talks with Scott Illingworth, founder of the Verbatim Salon, where actors perform real stories from those navigating the US immigration system. They explore the creative process and how verbatim theatre sheds light on urgent social issues. #theatre howlround.com/immigration-...

On the debut episode of the Nonfiction Theatre Forum, Ash speaks with Pink Fang’s leadership about evolving documentary and community-based theatre, ethical collaboration, sustaining legacy, adapting programs to meet today’s social, political, and artistic challenges.⁠ howlround.com/pink-fang-le...

Murielle Borst-Tarrant asks herself why she’s still creating. Amid loss and chaos and life’s ongoing minor dramas, she returns over and over again to the work. #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/creating-chaos

The Artistic Caucus aimed to integrate its collaborative model into the workflows and budgets of four theatres while providing freelance artists with access and compensation. Lauren Halvorsen details the strategies, impact, and significance. #theatre #theater howlround.com/artistic-cau...

Alexandra Meda discusses mediation and facilitation at various predominantly white organizations, and championing change work on the professional and individual levels. As an artist, she finds creativity in offering tools instead of ready-made solutions.⁠ #theatre howlround.com/architecting...

“Slow life, slow art.” If you missed Daniel Banks’ DEVISING FOR COMMUNITY CONNECTION workshop at La MaMa’s Stages of Change, here is your chance to join the circle. Experience the power of story, listening, and belonging. Watch the full session: howlround.com/happenings/t... #watchitnow

howlround.com/masters-degr...

Maridee Slater invites theatremakers to think beyond graduate school credentials and gatekeepers to preserve the embodied practices that allow us to see each other and collaborate across difference. Let’s circle up.⁠ #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/masters-degr...

Nadia Garzón, founder of Descolonizarte Teatro, prioritizes a decolonial practice by uplifting Latinx, queer, and immigrant voices. She releases the Western ideals that dominate the theatre and uses an ensemble leadership style with empathy at the core of her work. ⁠ howlround.com/applying-dec...

The creators of After, There Will Be Flowers want to shift the narratives of intimate partner violence from perpetration to healing. Lizzie Rajchel, the project’s co-creator, describes some of the dramaturgical and practical moves made to center healing and care.⁠ howlround.com/toward-drama...

Pub theatres bring theatre to communities in the United Kingdom through the combined business model of a performance venue and pub. Sophie Pell, who both makes and watches pub theatre, details the considerable benefits of this performance model. #theatre #theater howlround.com/how-pub-thea...

R. Réal Vargas Alanis, founder of In The Margin, discusses how they dreamed up ITM and the mentorship programs and residencies they offer as a multidisciplinary nonprofit, how they transition between structures, and how they pivot with the seasons of life. #theatre⁠ howlround.com/embodying-mu...

The founder of About…Productions, Theresa Chavez, highlights the role of the arts in enlightening and moving people and centers equity in her theatre work and youth education. She creates emotional and historical art and having optimism at the core of artmaking. howlround.com/art-optimism...

This is a call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in pit orchestra hiring. Joe LaRocca surfaces inequities embedded in the current contractor system of pit musician hiring, as well as some steps companies can take to remedy these issues. #theatre #theater #theatresky howlround.com/casting-pit

Robert Hubbard details the ways the Commonweal Theatre Company's resident ensemble operates, highlighting their artist/administrator doubling, artistic excellence, and embeddedness in the surrounding community. ⁠ howlround.com/rural-minnes...

From 1 October to 5 October, full-length performance videos of this year's Roma Heroes International Theater Festival will livestream on HowlRound TV. English subtitles will be available. Recordings of the shows will not be publicly available after they stream. howlround.com/happenings/r...

Founder of the Black Rep, Ron Himes, was an arts patron as a young man turned theatre founder. Undergoing several name changes since its conception, the Black Rep’s evolution is rooted in resourcefulness and an investment in young people. #theatre #theater howlround.com/committing-b...

Since her arrival at a small liberal arts college in Kentucky, Jayme Kilburn has grown its theatre program into a valued local cultural institution. By positioning theatre as a social service, she writes, she has cultivated a community that wants to show up. #theatre howlround.com/reshaping-ru...

An excellent read—and a nice shoutout to HowlRound, if we do say at ourselves!

In Ryan “Oki” Naka’s hands The Golden Girls are reinvented as “The Golden Gays”: four queer Hawaiians navigating middle age in Waikiki Beach. Through love, friendship, and resistance, the characters in Ryan Okinaka's The Golden Gays overcome their challenges together. ⁠ howlround.com/holding-lett...

Xhloe and Natasha made Edinburgh Festival Fringe history with three consecutive award-winning shows. Jonathan Mandell sits down with the duo to discuss the energy, strategy, and effort required to take the world’s largest arts festival by storm.⁠ #theatre #theater howlround.com/xhloe-and-na...

Chels Morgan, founder of Intimacy by Chels Morgan, speaks on accessibility within theatre spaces for neuroexpansive and disabled folks, creating your own opportunities, and the importance of intimacy movement education, cultural competency, and a justice framework.⁠ howlround.com/reframing-ac...

"Lass uns die Welt vergessen: Volksoper 1938" stages Austria’s fascist past, reckoning with the ghosts of Nazism. For Jordan Schildcrout, the docudrama-metamusical becomes an opportunity to interrogate Austria’s history—and to imagine the future of the United States.⁠ howlround.com/fascism-phan...

#HispanicHeritageMonth Thinking back to that time during lockdown when Colman Domingo gave an hour-long talk and conversation on playwriting. He was so gracious and encouraging. Free to watch on @howlround.bsky.social howlround.com/happenings/l... #LatinSky #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky

Co-founders Gabi Sanchez and Erlina Ortiz share their journeys of co-founding Power Street Theatre; being lifelong business partners; and creating a multicultural, community-centered theatre company in Philadelphia.⁠ #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky ⁠ howlround.com/reclaiming-p...

Ada Mukhina sits down with global artists and theatremakers—Kiyo Gutiérrez from Mexico, Teddy Mangawa from Zimbabwe, Dijana Milošević from Serbia, and Trà Nguyễn from Vietnam—to discuss their strategies for incorporating both care and risk in performance. #theatre howlround.com/taking-care-...

The playful, passionate demonstrations and symbols that arose from Hungary's Freeszfe movement inspired artists globally. Todd London and László Upor discuss the movement’s many examples of how artists can use their talents to stand up to tyranny. #theatre #theater ⁠ howlround.com/government-t...

Cynthia Schneider reviews artists’ influence on political change in the twentieth century and today, tracing an evolution of cultural diplomacy toward local artists. Her talk serves as a reminder of what culture-bearers can accomplish. #theatre #theater #theatresky howlround.com/why-soft-pow...

Faculty and students at Dennis Osadebay University adapted a poem about ending cultural pollution into a play about the consequences of environmental pollution. In this essay, members of the team reflect on this production and its efficacy. howlround.com/theatre-part...

Junior Programs, Inc taught the values of democracy and diversity to children across the United States through a model that featured comprehensive educational partnerships. Joan Lancourt offers their approach as a potential inspiration for the contemporary moment.⁠ howlround.com/junior-progr...

HERO Theatre founder Elisa Bocanegra reflects on mentor-mentee relationships, becoming an ancestor, and healing through the arts. Rooted between the Los Angeles Latine community and Bogotá, Colombia, Elisa’s theatre work is full of hope and trust in the disorder.⁠ howlround.com/hope-vehicle...