Monday, June 12, 2017
Does anyone remember last summer’s The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park? It opened with an entirely non-Shakespearean beauty pageant and talent show, led by a buffoonish figure costumed…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:14PMFriday, June 9, 2017
For the past few weeks, the narrative about the four Tony-nominated plays was that they were all struggling at the box office
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
I imagine that I could be dropped into a theatre seat most anywhere in the world and, without a translator or supertitles,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 26, 2017
They seem to come like clockwork, roughly every six months, the press releases announcing a new record on Broadway. They come twice
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
It has been, for much of the present decade, one of Broadway’s longest-running stories, without ever actually reaching the stage. I refer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 12, 2017
Admittedly in the theatre community, the month of May (and early June) is thought of primarily as awards season or, if your
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
One doesn’t expect to hear the words “nudity” and “children’s theatre” discussed in the same sentence. But there’s been a lot of that juxtaposition going around up in Boston as…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 04:01PMFriday, May 5, 2017
It is not unusual to hear a theatre company announce that if it doesn’t raise a certain amount of money by such-and-such
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, April 28, 2017
I do not typically find myself watching a show in a Broadway theatre at 2pm on a Tuesday, but I dare say
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 24, 2017
According to an old aphorism, “dog bites man” is not big news, however “man bites dog” is something to report. Consequently, in the arts world, “board of directors fires staff” m…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 02:08PMFriday, April 21, 2017
When people talk about how theatre isn’t really the same thing when it is translated on to television or film, they could
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Last week and this current week mark a fairly rare moment on Broadway. Every available theatre – all 40 of them –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
The shutting down of a high school play at East Newton High School in Granby, Missouri last week may have set a new low in bad timing for such incidents. The show was not canceled after cast…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:24AMFriday, April 7, 2017
The stories of arts critics losing their posts have made for a sad and continuing saga in recent years as both print and broadcast outlets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
If you happen to have been giving any thought to producing Langston Hughes’s 1935 play Mulatto at the Ames Center in Burnsville MN, save yourself some time and either move on to another p…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:09PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
Despite its origin in a 1988 film from John Waters, the underground master of camp, shock and transgression, the story of Tracy Turnblad, as told in multiple iterations, has become wholly ma…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 05:19PMFriday, March 31, 2017
When The Play That Goes Wrong opens on Sunday, the entire cast will be making its Broadway debut. This same landmark was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
I cannot claim that I was completely surprised. By the same token, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. A press release first made me aware of Diva: Live From Hell, and I lingered on it …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:55AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Context is everything. If you ask the average parent whether, in the abstract, they want to hear a student, any student, saying the n-word from the stage of their local high school auditoriu…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:30PMFriday, March 24, 2017
It comes as no particular surprise that Donald Trump has made it known he’d like to eliminate the National Endowment for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Sam Gold’s production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie produced a wide range of critical responses when it opened last week, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, March 10, 2017
It’s not terribly odd, in the US, for a member of the theatre’s staff to walk on to the stage before a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Cutting into my meat pie, at the New York transfer of the Tooting Arts Club’s pie shop Sweeney Todd, I must confess
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
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…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 01:09PMMonday, February 27, 2017
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, s…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:11PMFriday, February 24, 2017
Broadway is celebrating an Andrew Lloyd Webber festival. It’s not as though he ever said goodbye. But it’s hard not to look
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
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 …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:28AMMonday, February 20, 2017
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 mak…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:13PMFriday, February 17, 2017
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…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 07:16PMI recorded tracks for my second Broadway cast album earlier this week. That’s quite remarkable when you consider I’ve never appeared in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM 
