God, that's good! How I fell for my favorite musical --- In a youth almost entirely unblemished by voluntary physical exertion, I remember one particular sprint quite vividly. The objective …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMThe irony is almost too neat: a college student plans a program of songs from musicals that have faced censorship – and with less than two days’ notice, her university informs her she ha…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 11:02AMConventional wisdom is difficult to alter, but here goes: contrary to what has been widely written, Jesus Christ Superstar was not the first concept recording of a musical to spawn a wildl…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:30PMFirst Responder, 1 train, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman) Perhaps because I am hyperverbal – in person, in my writing, in my consumption of information, in my choice of entertainm…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:46PMTake careful note of the quotation marks, because the headline above doesn’t nod to theatre tickets or the wholesale embrace of casual fornication. The reference, sorry to disappoint you, …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:49PMTwo different plays stand the test of time. The post Two Plays Compared & Why Each Works appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.
SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 02:48PMGiven the disastrous reduction in live theatre that has marked the pandemic since March of 2020, one might assume that incidences of high school shows canceled over content concerns would ha…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:48PMKaki Marshall and Howard Sherman, on their last in-person visit, December 2019 Today, my book is published. This is the realization of a dream that I had given up on long ago. But my most ov…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:00AMThe Pulitzer-winning drama, set in the small town of Grover’s Corners, has a beating heart that will resonate through the years It is frequently called the quintessential American play, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTaking extreme care during the pandemic, particularly when New York was the first and hardest hit in the earliest days, my journeys beyond my apartment and the immediate surroundings put sig…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:30AM“So friends, this is the way we were in our growing up and in our marrying and in our doctoring and in our living and in our dying.” Pull out a copy of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:18AMIf there’s one positive to find among the destruction of the coronavirus outbreak, it is the way in which previously private or
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe ongoing litany of delays, postponements and cancellations in the US’ not-for-profit theatres is not unique, as venues and countless performing companies
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBroadway shows rarely close in previews nowadays. Aficionados speak of Bobbi Boland, starring Farrah Fawcett, which ran for seven performances in 2003
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe old showbusiness adage, ‘The show must go on’, has gone right out the window. Indeed, the show ‘going on’ would be seen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThere’s still a long way to go, but the former US presidential candidate sees plenty to cheer in the theatre world, writes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMOver the past year or two, an exciting number of new works from black writers have appeared on New York’s stages. These
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSchool matinees get a bad rap. After all, if distracted audiences are frustrating, imagine a theatre filled with teens gossiping, quarrelling, texting,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Vertical 2.25 Hours. 1/12th of a Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Only A Little Night Music. These are not,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn the wake of the botched Iowa caucuses, and in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries on March 3, there’s something emotionally
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn her seven-decade career, the veteran actor has worked with everyone from James Dean to Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She tells Howard Sherman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWhile the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater in New York is billed as “a premier launching pad for new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe New York Musical Festival, which launched in 2004, announced last week that it was bankrupt and has closed its doors. As
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe end of 2019 brought a double whammy of cultural ‘best of’ lists: not just best-of-the-year rundowns, but also assessments of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Broadway musical Beetlejuice’s press release issued last week with the headline ‘a strange and unusual announcement’ – echoing a line of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEarlier this week, Vulture – part of New York Magazine – ran a feature headlined: ‘Why is Stephen Sondheim Karaoke in All
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs his latest play opens Off-Broadway, straight-talking playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis speaks to Howard Sherman about life on the Upper West Side
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMIt was, quite possibly, the most widely heard post-performance discussion in theatre history. Well, the last few minutes were anyway. Last week
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhen pundits want to ridicule what they see as shallow displays of governance, or stunts on the campaign trail, they tend to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs the producer behind Hadestown’s success, on Broadway and internationally, Mara Isaacs could be forgiven for resting on her laurels. But, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMWhen does a concert become theatre? When does movement become choreography? Why the big suit? Okay, that last one is an old
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