Friday, October 27, 2017
Surprising as it may be, I never really stopped to think, until now, how many young artists must be making their New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
As investigations into political tampering with the 2016 US election on Facebook have made headlines and perhaps spurred corporate introspection, one would hope that the company is in the pr…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 02:22PMMentioned in passing at the end of this column last week was the opening of The Prince of Egypt, a new stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
The Florida Association for Theatre Education invited me to be the keynote speaker at their annual conference, held in Orlando October 12-14, 2017. The text below represents an edited versio…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:19PMThursday, October 12, 2017
For reasons entirely unknown to me, Broadway theatre audiences began, some time ago, queuing up outside theatres some 45 minutes or more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
I’ve been hearing about the divergence of popular music and the Broadway musical for my entire life. Born in the ‘60s and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 28, 2017
This summer, when an attorney for actor James Franco sent New York’s People’s Improv Theatre a cease and desist letter regarding the venue’s planned presentation of the pla…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:58AMFriday, September 22, 2017
The most intriguing news in New York theatre last week was not about what was happening, but what is not. Two new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Playwright AR Gurney would have found great irony in the fact that his life was commemorated at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
It’s a bit hard to follow the thinking of Bill Hanney, the owner and producer at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. Initially, it was hard because Hanney was silent, not …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 02:51PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Among the most frequently heard reasons offered by movie studios for this summer’s box-office decline, with admissions at their lowest in 25
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Earlier today, I received an invitation to an Off-Broadway show called Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical – The Unauthorized Parody. While
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Let’s say the average Broadway show spends $100,000 every week – a general figure, though, in the neighbourhood of accuracy – on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 18, 2017
It is unlikely that many people in the theatre are unaware of the controversy that arose in mid-May, when a small Portland, Oregon theatre company proposed a production of Edward Albee’s W…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 02:35PMDespite the difference in scale between theatre and movies, those of us connected to the stage can occasionally be forgiven for feeling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Whenever several artistic leadership positions open at once in US theatre, it fires the starting gun on a variation of the children’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
The Great Comet is burning out, and taking Natasha and Pierre with it. Unlike the recent closing of the play Indecent, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Those who have followed the career of James Franco, and at times it has almost been hard to avoid, are aware that the actor had a period where he was a perpetual student, described in 2008 i…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:44PMFriday, August 4, 2017
If you happen to be going to see the current production Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco the next ten days, you’ll find an i…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 05:28PMThis month, as blockbusters wane and before Oscar contenders start piling up, there’s a window during which smaller features may slip into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
To read, suddenly, unexpectedly, that playwright Sam Shepard had died was a shock on Monday morning. He was only 73 and his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Producers of 1950s horror films used to rely on outlandish promotional gimmicks to lure audiences into their low-budget, low-scare B-movies. The vintage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 24, 2017
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by the playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, entitled “Charles Dickens Makes Me Want To Throw Up.” As it turns out, the essay w…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:59AMFriday, July 14, 2017
The last-minute reprieve is the stuff of legal thrillers. It rarely applies to the fate of Broadway shows. But on June 22,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 10, 2017
This week, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1990 musical Assassins will have its first major New York performances since the 2004 Roundabout Theatre Company production, in a concert ver…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 08:49AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Shakespeare and parks seem to go hand in hand, certainly in the US, where the once singular innovation of Joseph Papp’s New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 30, 2017
I dare say that very few people reading this column are aware that tomorrow, July 1, marks the celebration of Canada Day,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Deep anger generated by the theatre reviews of Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss is nothing new. But the scale of the reaction
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Lots of digital ink, and not a little actual ink, has been used reporting and opining on the events that have surrounded
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
It wasn’t a picket line last Thursday morning, but rather a demonstration, as Broadway casting directors and their supporters walked back and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, 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 12:14PM 
