586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Sam Gold's production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie produced a wide range of critical responses when it opened last week, and
It's not terribly odd, in the US, for a member of the theatre's staff to walk on to the stage before a
Cutting into my meat pie, at the New York transfer of the Tooting Arts Club's pie shop Sweeney Todd, I must confess
When incidences of high school theatre censorship arise, the point at which they occur, and when that breaks out beyond school walls, can be central to efforts to reverse the decision. At ot…
For those who work in the theatre, the idea of defending the term "live action" would seem an unnecessary task. But as movie marketers, abetted uncritically by the entertainment press, seem …
Broadway is celebrating an Andrew Lloyd Webber festival. It’s not as though he ever said goodbye. But it's hard not to look
Even if you've never read the quote, you've no doubt seen the meme, in all of its arts-affirming, damn the torpedoes glory. Just one small detail: it isn’t true. I am referring to the …
Let's start with the positive, though I'm afraid that won't last long. In her New York Times article, "Might Ivanka Trump Speak Up If Her Father Guts The Arts?," Robin Pogrebin makes a serie…
This is a revised and updated version of a prior post from earlier today, which has been withdrawn, because it suggested, based upon news accounts, that the UW theatre department had been si…
I recorded tracks for my second Broadway cast album earlier this week. That’s quite remarkable when you consider I've never appeared in
The limited-run play has pretty much become the standard on Broadway: 14 weeks, 16 weeks, commercial, not-for-profit, maybe a short extension. But
Two weeks ago, the musical Ragtime came under fire at a high school in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for its deployment of racial slurs in telling a anti-racism story that is intended to evoke …
Having attended the first BroadwayCon a year ago during a major blizzard, I was charmed and encouraged by the enthusiasm of the
On January 20, the Cherry Hill Public School system in New Jersey announced their intent to censor racially charged language for their upcoming drama group’s production of the musical …
Every year when the Tony Award nominations, and the awards themselves, roll around, there's a lot of discussion about how Hollywood stars
There is no question that there are racially charged words in the musical Ragtime, just as there were in the novel upon which it is based. In telling the story of black characters, of Jew…
I was born just slightly late to remember, let alone participate in, the protest culture of the latter part of the 1960s
Having spent more than 30 years working in theatre, my work heavily weighted towards Broadway and institutional theatre in New York and
There's a Monday ritual in theatre offices around New York (shifted to Tuesday for holidays): the checking of the Broadway grosses. Obviously
Given that it was merely a stray amusement that became a popular offshoot of my photography hobby, "Times Square Weirdness" went worldwide this year with my discovery of Mike Hot-Pence…
In some ways, it might make more sense if I wrote this post about some of my least-read pieces of 2016, because I value almost everything I write equally and never quite know why some get…
That works of theatre on New York stages, and indeed on Broadway, have originated in regional theatres is not novel. The flow of
When the Print Room, a London theatre, cast white actors in Howard Barker's In the Depths of Dead Love " a play
I imagine we all marvel from time to time at how the same news story suddenly seems to be everywhere, riding the
I remember Edward Albee's longtime producer, Elizabeth McCann, saying to me as the 2005 Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
