586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Of all the things that theatre producers and artists are thinking about when assembling a production, sudden fluctuations in the world currency
"I knew y'all would come. It's the rest of the world I couldn't have anticipated." That was what Lin-Manuel Miranda admitted about his extraordinary recent success with the musical Hamilton …
With Broadway's seasonal winnowing of the herd well underway " only 29 shows running, with nine closing by the first weekend in
Several sentences in the letter posted to the Facebook page of the Atlanta Lyric Theatre could easily serve as a model for statements by theatres nationally. They read: Moving forward, it is…
It was not a surprise that Audra McDonald would be out of the musical Shuffle Along for much of the summer. From
As a result of their quixotic effort to secure the first high school performance rights to Hamilton, Wexford Collegiate School of the Arts’s Hamilton videos drew a great deal attent…
The closure of a 50-seat theatre in Chicago, even one with a 28-year history of production, doesn't typically become a topic of conversation
On the one hand, it's hard not to admire the efforts of Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Canada, near Toronto. A teacher and her students made as thorough a pitch as…
If you're looking for critical consensus, you won't find much of it in the new book The Critics Say…: 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future (McFarl…
The bombshell article in the Chicago Reader by Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt, about serially abusive practices at Chicago's Profiles Theatre, rightly zoomed around the theatre world fro…
When it comes right down to it, the question isn’t whether people will pay outrageous sums of money to see Hamilton. It
I never wanted to run away and join the circus when I was a child. This is no doubt due to the
The headline in London Sunday Times was certain to make anyone who advocates for diversity in the arts sit up, take notice and get quite upset. It read, "Lack of diversity not a problem, say…
While much will be written about the passing of Muhammad Ali, he does leave us with a theatrical footnote. I'm speaking of his single Broadway role, as the lead in the musical Buck White. Os…
Walking into most theatres, the experience is much the same. At one end of the space, ornate or otherwise, there is a
Before you start shouting about spoiler alerts, let me point out that the headline of this piece does not indicate in what context this suicide occurs. Could be real life. Could be a play, a…
How is Alan Ayckbourn viewed across the pond? New York blogger Howard Sherman reports… Since 2005, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright and director, has been bringing plays " of…
Since 2005, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright and director, has been bringing plays " often two or even three at a time " to 59E59 Theaters in New York from his home base at the Ste…
The act of making theatre is of endless fascination to those who make theatre, which accounts for the litany of backstage plays
Of all the differences in arts marketing between America and the UK (and Europe), perhaps the most significant is our dearly held
The statements, on their face, are utterly startling. "Blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field." "I don't have to take this. Yes, my board is all white, and they ar…
The statements, on their face, are utterly startling. "Blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field." "I don't have to take this. Yes, my board is all white, and they ar…
I never saw Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof. I just feel like I have. How is that, since I was
The day before the new musical Diary of a Wimpy Kid began previews at Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, a headline in
Years from now, newer converts to Hamilton fandom will marvel at how Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail assembled such a notable cast. It will be viewed like Rent, like American Graffiti, a …
