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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Teaching Students & Audiences About Swastikas, The SS and “The Sound of Music” by Howard Sherman

If you see a stage production of The Sound of Music, here are some words you won’t hear: Nazi. Hitler. Here are some words you will hear in the stage version: Gauleiter. Anschluss. Third …

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Friday, December 14, 2018

Howard Sherman: Trump’s travel ban not only bars entry to refugees but to those telling their stories by Howard Sherman

The note inserted into the programme for the US premiere of Nassim could not be more understated. It begins: “Nassim Soleimanpour was

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Friday, December 7, 2018

Howard Sherman: I just can’t get into the festive spirit of Christmas best-of lists by Howard Sherman

Just as the holiday displays seem to go up in stores earlier and earlier every year, so is it with arts critics’

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Friday, November 30, 2018

Howard Sherman: If only every Broadway show had the backing of ill-fated Head Over Heels by Howard Sherman

When word came, following the long US holiday weekend, that the Broadway musical Head Over Heels would be closing, it couldn’t have

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Friday, November 23, 2018

Howard Sherman: Post-show panels can illuminate theatre’s contemporary issues by Howard Sherman

Speaking on a recent panel called Trans Visibility in the Theatre, actor Alexandra Billings said: “The number is only a handful, but

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Friday, November 16, 2018

Howard Sherman: US theatre criticism is moving with times but there’s still a way to go by Howard Sherman

The travails of arts criticism have been well chronicled, but the constantly shifting sands and changing players in the US warrant a

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Worry About The Censorship and Homophobia First, Then The Prayers by Howard Sherman

As word about a scuffle over a theatre production at Mitchell High School in Mitchell County NC has started to make its way beyond the local North Carolina media, accounts seem to be placing…

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Friday, November 9, 2018

Howard Sherman: What the hell is happening to Bat Out of Hell’s US tour? by Howard Sherman

US fans, and prospective fans, of the musical Bat Out of Hell went on a wild ride last week – and it’s

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Friday, November 2, 2018

Howard Sherman: Discovering ‘longitudinal opera’ on the New York High Line by Howard Sherman

If, as the saying goes, writing about music is like dancing about architecture, what is one to make of an opera co-created

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Friday, October 26, 2018

Howard Sherman: Rethinking classic musicals gives us a glimpse of what America can be in 2018 by Howard Sherman

Just as Company’s Bobby is now being performed as Bobbie in the West End, the revising of gender roles – and other

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Friday, October 19, 2018

Howard Sherman: All hail Bill Irwin, a singular creature of the stage by Howard Sherman

Those who profoundly love theatre often speak of certain treasured performers as “true creatures of the stage”. While referring to people as

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Friday, October 12, 2018

Howard Sherman: Broadway should get in the spirit of Comic Con – not just as a subversive act by Howard Sherman

Working in a producing theatre, it is not uncommon to hear a knock on the office door and find someone in full

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Howard Sherman: Broadway’s annual Flea Market offers theatre fans more than just memorabilia by Howard Sherman

Most weekends, the sight of someone navigating crowds of theatregoers with a 6ft hardback Broadway show poster under their arm would be

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Friday, September 28, 2018

Howard Sherman: It’s not just musicals – Broadway’s serving up a tasty menu of plays this season by Howard Sherman

Instead of bemoaning the uncertainty of the upcoming Broadway season, which I’m given to doing around this time every year, I find

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Friday, September 21, 2018

Howard Sherman: An exciting new score can help the medicine of Greek tragedy go down by Howard Sherman

You’re welcome to claim it as a failing of the American educational system, but I made it through university without ever being

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Friday, September 14, 2018

Howard Sherman: The incredible 22-year tale of how a new musical finally got to the stage by Howard Sherman

Almost everyone familiar with the process of getting a new musical to the stage will explain how prolonged and arduous it can

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Friday, August 31, 2018

Howard Sherman: Now every actor’s name can be up in lights on Broadway’s modern marquees by Howard Sherman

“Maybe someday your name will be in lights,” Chuck Berry sang in one of his early rock’n’roll hits. Though Berry would never

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Friday, August 17, 2018

Howard Sherman: It’s a joy to spend time with real theatre fans in Broadway’s ‘rush seat’ lines by Howard Sherman

Every morning, there are queues. Before the sun has risen high enough to clear the skyscrapers that surround Times Square, while teams

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Friday, August 10, 2018

Howard Sherman: As the hit songs fade from memory, can jukebox musicals stand the test of time? by Howard Sherman

When Ain’t Misbehavin’ became a Broadway hit in 1978, the music of Fats Waller at its core was roughly 45 years old.

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Friday, August 3, 2018

Howard Sherman: US theatre is increasingly flipping the straight white perspective by Howard Sherman

The US will cease to be a majority-white populated country between 2040 and 2045 according to several reports on census population projections.

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Friday, July 27, 2018

Howard Sherman: the Berkshires – a summer retreat for artists and audiences by Howard Sherman

If I told you that the Berkshires is a region in Western Massachusetts, named for a range of low mountains that start

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Friday, July 20, 2018

Howard Sherman: Augmented reality offers exciting new possibilities for theatre by Howard Sherman

A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald declared that the director of Opera Australia “is staking much of the future and

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Friday, July 13, 2018

Howard Sherman: Stop telling audiences off – let’s encourage people to enjoy themselves at the theatre by Howard Sherman

The ‘theatre etiquette’ article is a staple on the arts pages, periodically erupting in publications and on websites, and typically prompted by

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Friday, July 6, 2018

Howard Sherman: Is Scotch sponsorship in the spirit of theatre? by Howard Sherman

With shows such as Drunk Shakespeare and ShakesBeer offering evenings of alcoholic consumption and classical theatre in almost equal measure, it would

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Friday, June 29, 2018

Howard Sherman: Why the thrills and chills of Sweeney Todd still speak (and sing) to me by Howard Sherman

When the Tooting Arts Club set up its immersive Sweeney Todd at Harrington’s Pie and Mash in 2014, I doubt it was

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Friday, June 22, 2018

Howard Sherman: Forget Marvel, I’m more excited by the Shakespeare crossover universe by Howard Sherman

Swilling champagne and wearing sunglasses, a dog, whose briefcase declares him to be with Mega Stage Productions, announces to his startled pig

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Howard Sherman: The plays we see say a lot about us, it’s our duty to widen our horizons by Howard Sherman

Unlike going to a museum, where what we see has been curated for us, attending the performing arts is a self-curated experience.

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Monday, June 11, 2018

In A Times Square Renovation, New Version of the Past by Howard Sherman

There are many who remain upset with the owners of the Hotel Edison for their ejection of the Edison Cafe several years ago, and you can count me among them, because along with the cafe went…

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Friday, June 1, 2018

Howard Sherman: Is Broadway’s record-breaking year really something to celebrate? by Howard Sherman

The 2017-2018 Broadway season ended on Sunday. A Broadway League press release duly followed with the year’s statistics, under a headline trumpeting

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Friday, May 25, 2018

Why are there no good TV shows about the theatre? by Howard Sherman

For generations, US network television has done a successful job of telling the stories of doctors and lawyers, police officers and private

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Friday, May 18, 2018

Howard Sherman: No Long Day’s Journey Into Night set has yet to capture Eugene O’Neill’s real-life cottage by Howard Sherman

It is not unusual, I suspect, for theatregoers to imagine themselves living inside the homes that are created on stage. Regardless of

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