When it was all said and done, three student-written short plays, part of an evening of playlets, monologues and songs, went on as scheduled at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, Colorado…
A theatre scene performed al fresco on a spring Florida evening sounds idyllic. But when Tomas Roldan and Matthew Ferro, juniors at New World School of the Arts High School, took their award…
After nearly three years during which playwright David Adjmi was prevented from authorizing any productions of, or the publication of, his play 3C, a dark parody of Three's Company, he…
If you have any interest in the subject of diversity in entertainment, no doubt you're aware of the firestorm kicked off last week by TV editor and co-editor-in-chief of the entertainment we…
Are you still grumbling about "tweet seats"? Oh, that is so 2013. Time to get with the program and start worrying about the newest development in mobile tech, which could have a vastly more …
In case you haven't heard, Caucasian actors are being victimized by casting practices at the television networks. They, after holding primacy on screen since the earliest days of television,…
If you happen to know of any young people who you're trying to dissuade from careers in the creative arts, you might want to casually leave around two new books for them to find. Scott Timbe…
Last night, a painting hanging in the town library in Trumbull, Connecticut was defaced, while in the same building, the library board was holding a meeting about the display of said paintin…
It is the policy of London's Underground, commonly known as "the tube," to not accept advertising which, in the words of it supervisory authority, Transport for London, "may cause widespread…
If, like me, you're connected to members of the Chicago theatre community on social media (I'm NYC based), you've certainly seen an outpouring of reaction to two major reviews of the new Ste…
Remember Trumbull, Connecticut? That's the town where a new high school principal canceled a production of the student edition of the musical Rent in the fall of 2013. The resultant outcry …
It is not, sad to say, news that controversy has surrounded a production of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi. It is certainly not surprising to hear that such controversy took place on a un…
Last night, I was extremely flattered and honored to receive the second annual Dramatists Legal Defense Fund's "Defender" Award, for my work on behalf of artists' rights and against censorsh…
Perhaps you're unaware of it, but there's an arts education film up for an Oscar this year. And no, I'm not referring to something in the documentary short subject category, but rather a Bes…
No, I'm sorry, it's not a blog post; it's a press release. But if you'll read on, I hope you'll understand why I've placed it here, and indulge me this once. " Howard NEW YORK (February 1…
Seen any good productions of David Adjmi's play 3C lately? Sorry, that's a trick question with a self-evident answer: of course you haven't. That's because in the two and a half…
When I first started going to theatre in my teens, I loved attending post-performance discussions and special seminars and panels about plays. They were my education, my chance to learn from…
There were, in my estimation, many interesting people at the first performance of Almost, Maine in Hickory NC this past Thursday night. To begin with, there was the author, John Cariani, …
"I hope that The Vagina Monologues is a point of departure " it's not a panacea, it's not the only play, it's not the definitive play. It's a play, it's an offering." Those are the words …
One of the great pleasures of a long holiday period, with one's office is closed for an extended time, is the freedom to go exploring, be it in life or online, guilt-free (or at least rel…
Are these my "best" blog posts of 2014? I couldn't say. All I know is that they're my most read, from a year in which page views on my site more than doubled over 2013. Certainly 2014 was…
I have never attended Theater J in Washington DC. I have become increasingly aware of its work as controversy over that work has risen in recent years, while at the same time I have become a…
Many of you already know the story of the Maiden High School production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, shuttered by school officials this fall due to the content of a single scene in wh…
As the Sony hacking case has played out over the past several weeks, it's a story that has been relegated mostly to the business pages and, simultaneously, the gossip industry. With no one e…
In a week when flaws in Rolling Stone's reporting of a culture of rape on the University of Virginia campus created national headlines, the lapses of a single cultural reporter at the Wall S…