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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...

Dávid Somló discusses key trends in the growing field of spatially focused transdisciplinary performances that center audience experience, highlighting examples across several potential directions for this work. #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky⁠ howlround.com/choreographi...

Several characters are played by one performer in I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan. Arseniy Fariatiev argues that the play does the opposite for the director, splitting directorial labor across several production roles.⁠ #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/does-im-assu...

Oakley Boycott’s SENSES build community in the mountains of Wyoming. Anne Mason tracks the development of the series—including SILENCE, ECHO, and NOISE—and the ways SENSES makes space for participants to rage or write or sit in contemplation and collectivity. #theatre howlround.com/senses-are-p...

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Hakawati founder Sona Tatoyan tells the story of her great-great-grandfather, growing up during the Armenian genocide, spending summers in Aleppo, and how art is an inheritance. #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/storytelling...

Excited for my first essay w/ @HowlRound, getting nerdy about my digital performance research & how that can have positive real-world impact. Huge thanks to @callingupjustice.bsky.social & Vijay Mathew for their significant interview contributions & incredible work. howlround.com/seize-means-...

For almost forty years, Real Women Have Curves has pulled audiences in with its story of Latine women in a sewing factory taking charge of their own destinies. Carlos Morton traces the story’s path from play to film to Broadway musical, affirming the power at its core. howlround.com/four-decades...

How can a life be organized? What authority should an archive hold? Dani Lamorte explores questions like these that propel B Kleymeyer’s As Others Have Before, an account of a sculptor’s life and the claims the living have on the stories of the dead. #theatre #theater howlround.com/open-questio...

Love this company and how we’re re-imagining Store Front Theatre in Chicago! Essay: howlround.com/how-stage-le... @howlround.bsky.social

Aganza Kisaka, founder of Yenze Theatre Conservatoire, discusses being an entrepreneur, a teacher, and an artist in Uganda. She reflects on consistency as key and celebrating the little wins, and speaks on the perception of the arts in Uganda. howlround.com/consistent-c...

“If your body is a portal, where does it lead?” This question led the creation of Paradise Portals, an immersive performance and dance party featuring Baltimore-area trans and queer artists. Laura Grothaus captures some of these artists’ answers. #theatre #theater howlround.com/queer-bodies...

To understand the impact of the 2025 Fornés Institute Symposium, one must look to both the events on the schedule and the space in-between and on the side. Carla Della Gatta details these various interwoven sites of connection and collaboration. #theatre #theater howlround.com/dramaturgica...

Is New York theatre backsliding into a less equitable industry? Emily Chackerian writes about the very real worry triggered by recent season announcements that seemed to elide female playwrights—and the solution-minded responses offered at a recent town hall. howlround.com/are-we-not-f...

When Stage Left Theatre went looking for a space to produce The Distrikt of Lake Michigun, they turned to Chicago’s history of storefront theatre. Seth Wilson detail’s the company’s process of successfully staging a production in an empty mall storefront. howlround.com/how-stage-le... #theatre

Online theatre spaces can promote accessibility, democratic processes, international connections, and ecological benefits, but many digital platforms disrupt that storytelling for their own profit. L. Nicol Cabe considers this paradox and offers potential paths forward. howlround.com/seize-means-...

Parrots at the Pagoda imagines an afterworld where parrots guide Puerto Rican drag performer Johnny Rodriguez through memories of his life. The transformation of death and life into memory illuminates a queer Latinx theatricality that celebrates itself against erasure. howlround.com/parrots-pago...

Through culturally responsive pedagogy, Bryan Stanton opened up their design classrooms to center student voices and value knowledge from many distinct cultures. They reflect on the practices they used in this transformation and the impact it has had on students.⁠ howlround.com/theatre-desi...

To Tell a Story About the Earth is part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising. The team behind the play reflects on their development process, which took them to Georgetown University for interdisciplinary co-creation. #theatre #theater #theatresky howlround.com/what-do-we-k...

It was one of the most "site specific" shows I ever attended -- a site 4,500 miles away.

"Fifty Boxes of Earth" at Theater Mu was a maximalist play that combined Western and South Asian theatrics, choreography, and puppetry. Lianna Matt McLernon and Ankita Raturi talk about the show’s collective approach and how it was created to be reproduced anywhere. howlround.com/maximalist-s...

Teatru Malta’s "1881" infused immersive theatre with game design, all in a dark, castle-like setting. After witnessing "1881" and other Maltese performances, critic Jonathan Mandell is left questioning the evolving forms and definitions of immersive theatre. #theatre howlround.com/toward-new-u...

“Add Theater to Taste” was the theme of the annual Iloilo Theater Festival in the Philippines. Heritage language learner Amanda L. Andrei shares how the shows used food to explore social issues and how her experience in the audience connected her more to her roots. howlround.com/feasting-pol...

In March 2025, the Latinx Theatre Commons convened a symposium to honor and explore the work of María Irene Fornés. Anna Dolores Novak shares how the day brought together Fornés scholars and newcomers to cultivate her legacy via infinite transformation of her work. howlround.com/cultivating-...

In March 2025, the Latinx Theatre Commons convened a symposium to honor and explore the work of María Irene Fornés. Benjamin Gillespie reflects on the day, which served as a reaffirmation of the community that continues to grow around Fornés’s influence.⁠ #theatre howlround.com/celebrating-...

Potential for photosensitive reactions keeps some audiences out of theatres. Nicole Hughes discusses EpiArts and the FlashCue Project to make theatre more accessible by educating about photosensitivity and providing standards for communicating about flashing light cues. howlround.com/community-le...

In Russia, “LGBT propaganda” has been banned, forcing artists engaging with queerness to work in secret. Viktor Vilisov shares about the process of their show Birds, an immersive adaptation of the Tarjei Vesaas novel, performed in apartments throughout the country.⁠ howlround.com/queer-perfor...

Theatrical movement classes often neglect access for people of all ability levels. Theatre educator Katie Butler shares about breaking ableist frameworks in her movement pedagogy and a new framework she is developing to do so: assessing principles rather than skills. howlround.com/designing-ac...

The ONOP campaign paralleled the most consequential US presidential election of a lifetime. In this conversation, the national political cycle is a prism for ONOP team members to reflect on the roles theatremakers in strengthening our democracy now. #theatre #theater howlround.com/liberal-demo...

In their experiences creating the Arts for EveryBody campaign, Christina D. Eskridge and Michael Rohd explore the idea of co-design in artistic, civic, and community contexts. Their experience models ways artist-led practices build trust within community development.⁠ howlround.com/co-design-an...

Daughters of Lorraine Season 5 Finale! In this episode, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview director and playwright Robert O’Hara about his approach to his craft, his experience as a Black artist in the theatre industry, and how he leans into discomfort.⁠ howlround.com/gettin-comfo...

The One Nation/One Project team built public arts partnerships across the country, and sought pluralistic strategies to answer to important questions. What is possible at the intersection of our increasing diversity and diminishing cohesion? How do we reach it?⁠ #theatre howlround.com/cost-pluralism

How can a national research team center local partners, make data collection valuable and enjoyable, and return findings in useful ways? For the National Research and Impact Team for One Nation/One Project, the answer lays in values-based, creative research strategies. howlround.com/how-creative...

In this episode, Jordan and Leticia interview Lydia Diamond and learn about her career as a playwright and her hopes for expanding Black theatre.⁠ #theatre #theater #theatresky #theatersky howlround.com/all-kinds-bl...

The skills theatremakers use to create transformative theatre are essential in building resilient, equitable communities. Leaders of the One Nation/One Project initiative kick off a series on their work with an essay on these transferable, deeply valuable skills.⁠ howlround.com/theatremaker...

Anna Deavere Smith is not only a prolific playwright known widely for her verbatim theatre plays, but she is also a teacher with a distinct pedagogy. She speaks with her former student Alex Ates, about her approaches to teaching and their development over the years. howlround.com/acting-beyon...

Shanty Theatre dove deep into Igbo mask and masquerade traditions to stage the largest of them all: the Ijele Masquerade. Angelea Okolo and Eseovwe Emakunu detail the research and creative process they used to bring the masquerade to Benin City, Nigeria.⁠ #theatre howlround.com/shanty-theat...