586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Last week was not the first time I've been puzzled by Hilton Als's writing on theatre. I didn't understand the rather cruel rationale by which he described the late playwright Wendy Wasserst…
For those unfamiliar with "Times Square Weirdness," my series of photos of the odder denizens of Times Square, shared frequently on my Facebook page, you may be surprised to learn of my fami…
Among the regrets of my theatregoing life, missing the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along ranks high on the list.
Anyone claiming that there is equity or equality " by gender, by race and ethnicity, by disability " in the American theatre would have to be willfully ignoring the evidence. The Dramatists …
Almost a week later, is there anything more that needs to be said about the contretemps between America's president-elect and the Broadway
In the immediate wake of last week's US presidential election, my Facebook feed was filled with messages of anger and despair from
Having spent 13 of the past 21 hours embedded at the American Airlines Theatre with The 24 Hour Plays, I'm reaching my natural state of exhaustion, without the participatory exhilaration of …
The best laid plans: any effort to write meaningfully about being embedded with The 24 Hour Plays will have to wait. All I can manage to do is process some of the many photos I've taken " an…
Having long been intrigued by the 24 hour play concept, it was a stroke of fortune that when I affiliated with The New School a year ago, I was provided with office space that is shared with…
How to describe how I've felt this week? In approximate order: anxious, worried, heartsick, afraid, resolved, exhausted, embraced. But it wasn't until this morning that I felt something that…
I wish that I could write a play, but I haven't the talent. I wish that I could compose a musical score, but I haven't the gift. I wish that I could dance, but I have neither the freedom in …
On November 4, composer Jeanine Tesori was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual "Stage The Change: Theatre as a Social Voice" event, co-sponsored by the Tilles Center at Long Island Univ…
There are two quite different scenarios playing out in the US right now surrounding issues of actor compensation, important to anyone who
New York, NY, November 3, 2016 " Music students at The Juilliard School gave a well-received sunrise performance " "God Loves Jazz" " this morning on West 65th Street, on the eastern side of…
After its US debut at Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982, and before it opened on Broadway in early May of that year, Athol Fugard's MASTER HAROLD…and the boys played a one-week engageme…
Do you remember the final scene from The Producers, the stage musical? Having been jailed for the financial fraud they perpetrated with
To be clear from the very start, two points. Judi Honoré, the owner of Shakespeare Books &Â Antiques in Ashland, Oregon, has every right to display anything she chooses in the window …
Long after I stopped acting in school productions (which was November 1981 at the University of Pennsylvania, to be precise), my mother would periodically say how much she wished that my sho…
In reporting on the dispute between Ars Nova and Howard Kagan, a lead producer of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, both The New York Times and the New York Post ha…
When I speak about it with people who saw it, the phrase that comes up most often is, "It was life-changing." When I speak about it with people who have read about it, but didn't see it, the…
It was big news last week when Disney Theatrical Productions, almost a year before the stage version of the animated film Frozen
Because many of America's largest subsidised theatres receive federal or state funding, and operate as tax-exempt organisations with defined cultural and educational
If you look at photos or video from Marathon of Hope, a new musical that just premiered in Waterloo, Canada, about an hour outside Toronto, something seems off. The musical is based on the l…
In hindsight, the more I think about it, I feel I should be at least slightly embarrassed. At the time, and in
It was by coincidence, not design, that I was in mid-air over the Atlantic while Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump engaged in
