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Festivals

Festivals, often organized within a specific geographic community or around a theme, are a great way for different works to be in conversation with each other. Content in this section primarily focuses around recapping theatre festivals and analyzing multiple works that were featured.

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Meet Amleta
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Meet Amleta
Join us for a livestream discussion with Amleta founder, Monica Faggiani
Friday 3 May 2024
A Speculative Love Performance in the Margins
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A Speculative Love Performance in the Margins
by Yaşam Özlem Gülseven, Davit Khorbaladze
12 April 2024
The Set of Practices We Call Home
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The Set of Practices We Call Home
by Kaneza Schaal
11 April 2024
19 New Plays on Art & Neurobiology at the Generous Company’s Gumbo Festival
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19 New Plays on Art & Neurobiology at the Generous Company’s Gumbo Festival

Thursday 31 January 2013
Baltimore, MD, United States

Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland presented Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 31 January 2013 at 4:30 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7:30 p.m. EST (New York).

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Under the Radar Festival 2013 (#UTR13) & Culturebot at The Public
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Under the Radar Festival 2013 (#UTR13) & Culturebot at The Public

Thursday 10 January to Sunday 13 January 2013
New York, NY, United States

The Public Theater presented panels on the arts during economic crisis and the work of socially conscious performance at the Under the Radar Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Thursday 10 January to Sunday 13 January 2013.

America’s Next Top (Fringe) Model
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America’s Next Top (Fringe) Model

How a Big Little Fringe Became the Oldest in the Nation

30 August 2012

Michael Marinaccio, the Producer of the Orlando Fringe Festival, on busniess models for Fringe Festivals, and how to define that tricky little term.

Several people wearing animal masks looking at another man in a mask and a top hat.
Primed for Fringe
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Primed for Fringe

27 August 2012

Against all odds, adversity created an ideal setting for Fringe. Em Piro chronicles the inception of the St. Lou Fringe Festival.

A logo for the Hip Hop Theatre Festival.
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
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Hip-Hop Theater Festival

Making Space in Harlem

29 June 2012

The mission is to bring stories by and about the hiphop generation. Now Hip-hop Theatre Festival is finished with the nomadic lifestyle and have a space to call our own.

 

Friday Phone Call # 35
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Friday Phone Call # 35

J.J. El-Far of Harlem Arts Festival

28 June 2012

Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: J.J. El-Far of Harlem Arts Festival.

A logo that reads "Icicle Creek Theater Festival Summer Conservatory."
The Evolution of the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival
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The Evolution of the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival

9 May 2012

The Icicle Theatre Festival is a special kind of new play journey. Allen Fitzpatrick explores the opportunities of this festival.

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Fringe's Frontier
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Fringe's Frontier

11 April 2012

The Capital Fringe Festival has outgrown Fort Fringe which brings to light the question: besides the church basement, who will give us space at a fair price point?

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Boston One Minute Play Festival (#OMPF) at Playwrights' Theatre
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Boston One Minute Play Festival (#OMPF) at Playwrights' Theatre

Monday 9 January 2012
Boston, MA, United States

Playwrights' Theatre in collaboration with The One-Minute Play Festival presented the very first Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 9 January 2012 at 5 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EST (New York).

Event Banner for Under the Radar.
Culturebot.org Panel Conversation: Performance and Context: The Black Box and The White Cube—Under the Radar at the Public Theater
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Culturebot.org Panel Conversation: Performance and Context: The Black Box and The White Cube—Under the Radar at the Public Theater

Sunday 8 January 2012
New York, NY, United States

Under the Radar presented Culturebot Conversations on Contemporary Performance: "Performance and Context: The Black Box and The White Cube" livestreamed on HowlRound.TV Sunday 8 January 2012 at 1pm EST (New York) / 10am PST (San Francisco) / 6pm GMT (London) / 7pm CET (Paris)

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Motus (Italy) Discussion at the Under the Radar at the Public Theater
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Motus (Italy) Discussion at the Under the Radar at the Public Theater

Saturday 7 January 2012
New York, NY, United States

The Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater presented the MOTUS discussion of Alexis. A Greek Tragedy, livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday, 7 January 2012 at 8:30 p.m. EST / 5:30 p.m. PST / (02:30 CET / 01:30 GMT).

Event Banner for Under the Radar.
Under the Radar Festival Keynotes & Panels at The Public Theater
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Under the Radar Festival Keynotes & Panels at The Public Theater

Thursday 5 January 5 2012
New York, NY, United States

The Public Theater presented the Under the Radar Festival symposium including keynote speeches and panel discussions livestreamed on HowlRound TV on Thursday 5 January 5 2012 at 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST (New York) / 6:30 a.m. - 8 a.m. PST (San Francisco) / 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. GMT (London) / 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. CST (Chicago).

Three performers control a puppet of a man.
A Perverted Guide to Watching Under the Radar
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A Perverted Guide to Watching Under the Radar

3 January 2012

Meiyin Wang contrasts Electricity, Originality, and Authenticity in the context of the 2012 Under the Radar Festival, and how selected productions challenge these concepts.

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The New Black Fest
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The New Black Fest

13 April 2011

Keith Josef Adkins speaks on his experience working to "diversify within our diversity" and provide fresh black narratives to the canon of American theatre.

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REACTIV Festival
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REACTIV Festival

A laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups

REACTIV is a confirmation of our faith in that which is yet to come, a laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups and to bring our contribution to constructing the future, while also deconstructing our fears.

Fringe Festival
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Fringe Festival

A series about fringe theatre festivals in the United States.