586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Given that this is my last column of the year, I won't take on a singular topic, but mention a coupe of
Last week, more than 11 million people in the US watched a live broadcast of the musical The Wiz, an adaptation of
There's been a great deal of discussion in the past couple of months about the rights of playwrights, the legal protections of copyright and licensing agreements, the prerogative of director…
Early last week, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee gave its blessing to a plan to elevate Broadway's famed Palace Theatre
In the wake of the recent casting controversies over Katori Hall's The Mountaintop and Lloyd Suh's Jesus in India, there have been a number of online commenters who have cited Lin-Manuel Mir…
I assume most people, either as a child heard, or as a parent deployed, the timeworn phrase, "If someone told you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it?" My parents had a variant …
They are, to many, the scourge of Times Square and the theatre district. I refer not to the prostitutes and three-card monte
I am delighted to report that all of the smoking, drinking, drugging and sexual references will be intact " tonight, tomorrow and Sunday " in the production of Maxwell Anderson's 1950s ps…
There's been a song running through my head for the past week, prompted by a series of press releases I've received. Anyone
"I come at this more like a lawyer, who would say that everybody has a right to a fair trial. Or a journalist, or a priest, who would hear the confession."
" Anna Deavere Smith
On Novembe…
In the many press accounts of director Michael Oatman casting a white man to play Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, stories have all acknowledged Oatman's orig…
"What will you learn?" asks the home page of the website of Clarion University in Pennsylvania. In the wake of the school's handling of the casting of white students in Asian roles in Llo…
"The students are victims," writes playwright Lloyd Suh, regarding the events that led to his play Jesus in India being canceled a little more than a week before it was to be produced at Cla…
Bruce Willis in Misery on Broadway It has been more than 30 years since Bruce Willis last appeared on a New York
Four words. Why do four words bother me so much?
After all, they appear in one review of an As You Like It production at the National Theatre in London that I'm highly unlikely to ever se…
Broadway's Bridge begins van Hove season in NYC After an amuse bouche in Philadelphia, with a brief run of his After the
A great deal has been written about the diminishment of arts journalism in general, and criticism in particular. Editors want to focus more only on big name productions, or celebrities, as b…
A few weeks ago, the headline of a review rubbed me the wrong way.
I didn't have an issue with the review itself, by Charles McNulty for The Los Angeles Times. But the headline for the pi…
As I write, if you visit the website of the Fargo Moorhead Opera, you'll find an evocative image of a beautiful young Asian woman used in conjunction with the company's production of Madama …
King Charles III begins Broadway reign While Robert Powell is touring the UK in the title role of King Charles III, the
People are dumbfounded. People are incredulous. People are angry.
In the past few hours, a month-old story began circulating on social media about a production of Katori Hall's widely…
Keira Knightley makes her US stage debut as Therese Raquin For a star of her wattage, Keira Knightley's Broadway debut has been
"Is there a link for this so I can read the whole thing if there's more?"
"Maybe this wants to grow up and become a blog post?"
"I've been encouraging him to do so!!!!"
"This, I fee…
Dames at Sea sets sail on Broadway Broadway's ongoing plunge into Off-Broadway hits of the past has now surfaced with the 1968
AR Gurney's Sylvia marks its Broadway territory With more than 40 plays to his credit, AR Gurney has been one of the
