In Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick, the line between the performers and the puppets they control sometimes blurs. Lucy Haskell explores the way that the shifting animacy of humans and objects on stage disrupts the audience’s expectations of where life resides. howlround.com/matter-plexus-…

Robert Duffley, dramaturg for the We Hear You—A Climate Archive series, details the process of creating 77 Messages to the Future, an offering that amplifies youth perspectives on the climate emergency from around the world. howlround.com/we-hear-you-cl…

This Week on Kunafa and Shay: Hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson learn from Dr. Amir Al-Azraki about Iraqi theatrical traditions, the birth of modern Iraqi theatre, Iraqi plays in translation, and Afro-Iraqi theatre. howlround.com/iraqi-theatre-…

New Today on HowlRound: Playwright and performer Liam Monaghan details the process behind writing Strange/Familiar. He explores the way contemporary autofictions hold up a mirror to ourselves and our world. howlround.com/mythologizing-…

New today on HowlRound: In another installment of A Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights, Todd London celebrates the work of Migdalia Cruz, a writer whose plays have been deemed “impossible.” howlround.com/haunting-migda…

New today on HowlRound: Kristin Idaszak shares about Dolores Díaz’s new play Black Sunday that connects the environmental racism during the 1935 Dust Bowl to contemporary migration crises in Chicago. howlround.com/ecological-hor…

This week on Kunafa and Shay: Dr. Samer Al-Saber joins hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson for a conversation around resistant ventriloquism and postcolonial courtesy. howlround.com/resistant-vent…

Throughout the month of August, we will be highlighting educational content from the HowlRound archive in honor of the back to school season. Today, we're throwing back to this 2021 essay from HowlRound contributor Eve Bernfeld! howlround.com/exit-descartes…

Throughout the month of August, we will be highlighting educational content from the HowlRound archive in honor of the back to school season. Today, we're throwing back to this 2023 essay from HowlRound contributor Katie Butler! howlround.com/movement-every…

This Week on Kunafa and Shay: Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson reflect on the season, give some additional insight, and provide a broader overview of their framework for historical and classical theatre. howlround.com/rant-and-rave-…

Throughout the month of August, we will be highlighting educational content from the HowlRound archive in honor of the back to school season. Today, we're throwing back to this 2020 essay from HowlRound contributor Miranda Haymon! howlround.com/how-liberal-ar…

New today on HowlRound: Lane Michael Stanley offers a toolkit of questions to consider for those who seek to have a community-embedded artistic practice, based on his experience in recovery housing and his time developing plays with unhoused people. howlround.com/toolkit-commun…

All of The Legacy of Robert Wilson conversation sessions are how available to watch on HowlRound! To Wilson’s extraordinary career, the Segal Center invited scholars, critics, and practitioners to explore his transformative vision and artistic practice. howlround.com/happenings/leg…

Throughout the month of August, we will be highlighting educational content from the HowlRound archive in honor of the back to school season. Today, we're throwing back to this 2023 essay from HowlRound contributor Iphigenia Taxopoulou. howlround.com/how-training-a…

New today on HowlRound: Carmen Salvador shares Fundación Quien Cuenta Eres Tú’s Children’s Participative Theatre program in Chile and the way they facilitate a space for under-resourced children’s creativity and reflection on their experiences. howlround.com/childrens-part…

New today on HowlRound: Through experimental dramaturgy that privileges sound Neo Muyanga created the Visual Radio Plays project in South Africa. Tonderai Chiyindiko explores the histories, theories, and personal connections that inspired the project. howlround.com/creating-sound…

New today on HowlRound: Cori Thomas convenes playwrights based in the United States for a roundtable discussion about working internationally. They talk new play development and theatregoing cultures in Europe. howlround.com/four-playwrigh…

New today on HowlRound: German theatre scholar Thomas Schmidt reflects on some of the theatre festivals of this past summer in Berlin and posits what makes the Berlin theatre scene so special. howlround.com/berlins-summer…

New today on HowlRound: Scholars from the Latinx Theatre Commons co-authored a concept paper comprised of histories, strategies, and suggestions for archiving Latine theatre in all its forms. Carla Della Gatta introduces the paper with an executive summary howlround.com/latinx-theatre…

New today on HowlRound: Theatre departments now face closures and downsizing nationwide. Jacqueline E. Lawton and Rachel Pollock speak to professors impacted by these cuts and lay out actions to preserve theatre education at the university level. howlround.com/escalating-dra…