Friday, 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 02:00AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Two weeks ago, the musical Ragtime came under fire at a high school in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for its deployment of racial slurs in telling a anti-racism story that is intended to evoke th…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 05:00PMFriday, February 3, 2017
Having attended the first BroadwayCon a year ago during a major blizzard, I was charmed and encouraged by the enthusiasm of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMFriday, January 27, 2017
On January 20, the Cherry Hill Public School system in New Jersey announced their intent to censor racially charged language for their upcoming drama group’s production of the musical …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 04:02PMEvery year when the Tony Award nominations, and the awards themselves, roll around, there’s a lot of discussion about how Hollywood stars
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
There is no question that there are racially charged words in the musical Ragtime, just as there were in the novel upon which it is based. In telling the story of black characters, of Jewis…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:35PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
I was born just slightly late to remember, let alone participate in, the protest culture of the latter part of the 1960s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMFriday, January 13, 2017
Having spent more than 30 years working in theatre, my work heavily weighted towards Broadway and institutional theatre in New York and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, January 6, 2017
There’s a Monday ritual in theatre offices around New York (shifted to Tuesday for holidays): the checking of the Broadway grosses. Obviously
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Given that it was merely a stray amusement that became a popular offshoot of my photography hobby, "Times Square Weirdness" went worldwide this year with my discovery of Mike Hot-Pence (ak…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:21AMFriday, December 23, 2016
In some ways, it might make more sense if I wrote this post about some of my least-read pieces of 2016, because I value almost everything I write equally and never quite know why some get w…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:59PMThat works of theatre on New York stages, and indeed on Broadway, have originated in regional theatres is not novel. The flow of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, December 19, 2016
When the Print Room, a London theatre, cast white actors in Howard Barker’s In the Depths of Dead Love – a play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMFriday, December 16, 2016
I imagine we all marvel from time to time at how the same news story suddenly seems to be everywhere, riding the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, December 9, 2016
I remember Edward Albee’s longtime producer, Elizabeth McCann, saying to me as the 2005 Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Last week was not the first time I’ve been puzzled by Hilton Als’s writing on theatre. I didn’t understand the rather cruel rationale by which he described the late playwright Wendy Wa…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:29PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
For those unfamiliar with “Times Square Weirdness,” my series of photos of the odder denizens of Times Square, shared frequently on my Facebook page, you may be surprised to learn of my …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:22PMFriday, December 2, 2016
Among the regrets of my theatregoing life, missing the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along ranks high on the list.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 25, 2016
Anyone claiming that there is equity or equality – by gender, by race and ethnicity, by disability – in the American theatre would have to be willfully ignoring the evidence. The Dramati…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 01:46PMThursday, November 24, 2016
Almost a week later, is there anything more that needs to be said about the contretemps between America’s president-elect and the Broadway
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 18, 2016
In the immediate wake of last week’s US presidential election, my Facebook feed was filled with messages of anger and despair from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Having spent 13 of the past 21 hours embedded at the American Airlines Theatre with The 24 Hour Plays, I'm reaching my natural state of exhaustion, without the participatory exhilaration of …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:23PMThe best laid plans: any effort to write meaningfully about being embedded with The 24 Hour Plays will have to wait. All I can manage to do is process some of the many photos I've taken – …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:53PMHaving long been intrigued by the 24 hour play concept, it was a stroke of fortune that when I affiliated with The New School a year ago, I was provided with office space that is shared with…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:16PMFriday, November 11, 2016
How to describe how I’ve felt this week? In approximate order: anxious, worried, heartsick, afraid, resolved, exhausted, embraced. But it wasn’t until this morning that I felt something …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:10AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
I wish that I could write a play, but I haven’t the talent. I wish that I could compose a musical score, but I haven’t the gift. I wish that I could dance, but I have neither the freedom…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:50AMMonday, November 7, 2016
On November 4, composer Jeanine Tesori was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual "Stage The Change: Theatre as a Social Voice" event, co-sponsored by the Tilles Center at Long Island Univ…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:35AMFriday, November 4, 2016
There are two quite different scenarios playing out in the US right now surrounding issues of actor compensation, important to anyone who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, November 3, 2016
New York, NY, November 3, 2016 – Music students at The Juilliard School gave a well-received sunrise performance – “God Loves Jazz” – this morning on West 65th Street, on the easte…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:44AMMonday, October 31, 2016
After its US debut at Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982, and before it opened on Broadway in early May of that year, Athol Fugard’s MASTER HAROLD…and the boys played a one-week engage…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:29AMFriday, October 28, 2016
Do you remember the final scene from The Producers, the stage musical? Having been jailed for the financial fraud they perpetrated with
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