586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
It's a funny thing about milestones, the way certain thresholds get set in our minds. If you follow reporting on the movie industry, breaking the $100 million gross barrier is a major achiev…
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Broadway's 7 pm curtain on Tuesdays was introduced more than 11 years ago. I thought it a somewhat more recent innovation, especially since I still…
We all know that web traffic is the lifeblood of online media, giving rise to such essential reporting as "Which Game of Thrones Character Are You?," "Which Breakfast Club Character Are You?…
If you somehow managed to materialize in the auditorium of Jonathan Law High School in Milford CT this past weekend just as the band began the opening strains of Little Shop of Horrors, you …
Of course, on the face of it, it's simply the dumbest thing you've ever heard. In a letter to the parents of kindergarten students at Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood, N.Y., the princi…
Rent is at the center of an academic controversy again, with a few twists. This time, it's not the whole show, it's just one song, "La Vie Boheme." It involves multiple high schools and a co…
As I prepared to go to Trumbull CT last month to see the high school's production of Rent, many people asked, or wrote me to ask, if I would be writing about it. My consistent reply, which w…
Broadway dreams being immediately blown up into pending productions is something that really gets my goat. Why? Because it's a case of hyperbole becoming ostensible fact in the press, and th…
I have just returned from a trip to Plaistow, New Hampshire, where I went to support students, parents, alumni and members of the community who wanted to speak out against the cancelation of…
Sweeney Todd at Timberland High in Plaistow NH seems to have a lot in common with the threatened but ultimately triumphant production of Rent this past weekend in Trumbull CT. A musical is a…
I am going to take it for granted that, since you've opted to read this article, you care about the arts. I'm also going to save time and typing by assuming that you appreciate media coverag…
2014 marks the "mid-year" elections in the United States, the halfway point between presidential contests, but politics both past and present are blooming on stages across the country. Rober…
Last year, the actor Taylor Mac played the title role in the Foundry Theatre's acclaimed production of Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan. This tale of a downtrodden woman who secures powe…
Fact: America's newspapers are locked in a struggle for survival, fighting for financial stability and relevance at a time when money and attention increasingly focuses on online and video o…
I'm not given to posting press releases here and this isn't the start of a trend, but I'm making an exception to insure this good news gets around and there's nothing for me to say beyond wh…
There's nothing I can say. This inexplicable attack leaves me, and no doubt others, inarticulate. Hold Randy Gener in your heart as he recovers. Do what you can to support him in that recove…
Two days ago, the town council of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland shut down a planned engagement of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) on the g…
Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida is back in rehearsal with their production of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come!, to restore the script as the fine Irish dramatist wrote i…
The issue, to me, is not whether Peter Pan is played by a man or a woman. The issue is whether Peter Pan has to be white. Perhaps I should back up. On Sunday afternoon, via tweets (and later…
The rise of internet culture has caused many shifts in how we consume information, with one of the more amusing side benefits being the rise of the fictional Twitter user. Disregarding spamb…
As the last open slots of the spring season on Broadway are filled, a new play by Eric Coble called The Velocity of Autumn has snagged the Booth Theatre for a home. Originally announced for.…
You're not going to believe this. On Monday, Principal Marc Guarino of Trumbull High School in Connecticut reinstated the Thespian Troupe's production of Rent, after three weeks of negotiati…
Looking up and staring while walking around in Times Square sounds like the classic stance of a gawking tourist, but should you happen to be at the northeast corner of Forty-Si…
Yesterday afternoon, Trumbull High School Principal Marc Guarino released a letter in which he announced the restoration of Rent to the school schedule, albeit with new dates. His letter was…
Report as of 9 am, Tuesday, December 10 Yesterday afternoon, in response to a caller on WICC Radio in Connecticut, host Jim Buchanan reached or was contacted by the First Selectman of Trumbu…
