586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Surprising as it may be, I never really stopped to think, until now, how many young artists must be making their New
As investigations into political tampering with the 2016 US election on Facebook have made headlines and perhaps spurred corporate introspection, one would hope that the company is in the pr…
Mentioned in passing at the end of this column last week was the opening of The Prince of Egypt, a new stage
The Florida Association for Theatre Education invited me to be the keynote speaker at their annual conference, held in Orlando October 12-14, 2017. The text below represents an edited versio…
For reasons entirely unknown to me, Broadway theatre audiences began, some time ago, queuing up outside theatres some 45 minutes or more
I've been hearing about the divergence of popular music and the Broadway musical for my entire life. Born in the '60s and
This summer, when an attorney for actor James Franco sent New York’s People’s Improv Theatre a cease and desist letter regarding the venue’s planned presentation of the pla…
The most intriguing news in New York theatre last week was not about what was happening, but what is not. Two new
Playwright AR Gurney would have found great irony in the fact that his life was commemorated at Broadway's Music Box Theatre this
It's a bit hard to follow the thinking of Bill Hanney, the owner and producer at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. Initially, it was hard because Hanney was silent, not re…
Among the most frequently heard reasons offered by movie studios for this summer's box-office decline, with admissions at their lowest in 25
Earlier today, I received an invitation to an Off-Broadway show called Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical " The Unauthorized Parody. While
Let's say the average Broadway show spends $100,000 every week " a general figure, though, in the neighbourhood of accuracy " on
It is unlikely that many people in the theatre are unaware of the controversy that arose in mid-May, when a small Portland, Oregon theatre company proposed a production of Edward Albee's Who…
Despite the difference in scale between theatre and movies, those of us connected to the stage can occasionally be forgiven for feeling
Whenever several artistic leadership positions open at once in US theatre, it fires the starting gun on a variation of the children's
The Great Comet is burning out, and taking Natasha and Pierre with it. Unlike the recent closing of the play Indecent, which
Those who have followed the career of James Franco, and at times it has almost been hard to avoid, are aware that the actor had a period where he was a perpetual student, described in 2008 i…
If you happen to be going to see the current production Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco the next ten days, you'll find an inser…
This month, as blockbusters wane and before Oscar contenders start piling up, there's a window during which smaller features may slip into
To read, suddenly, unexpectedly, that playwright Sam Shepard had died was a shock on Monday morning. He was only 73 and his
Producers of 1950s horror films used to rely on outlandish promotional gimmicks to lure audiences into their low-budget, low-scare B-movies. The vintage
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by the playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, entitled "Charles Dickens Makes Me Want To Throw Up." As it turns out, the essay was j…
The last-minute reprieve is the stuff of legal thrillers. It rarely applies to the fate of Broadway shows. But on June 22,
This week, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1990 musical Assassins will have its first major New York performances since the 2004 Roundabout Theatre Company production, in a concert versi…
