Friday, 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, October 27, 2016
To be clear from the very start, two points. Judi Honoré, the owner of Shakespeare Books & Antiques in Ashland, Oregon, has every right to display anything she chooses in the window of…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:59PMLong after I stopped acting in school productions (which was November 1981 at the University of Pennsylvania, to be precise), my mother would periodically say how much she wished that my sho…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:13AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
In reporting on the dispute between Ars Nova and Howard Kagan, a lead producer of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, both The New York Times and the New York Post have seeming…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 11:51AMFriday, October 21, 2016
When I speak about it with people who saw it, the phrase that comes up most often is, “It was life-changing.” When I speak about it with people who have read about it, but didn’t see i…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:17PMIt was big news last week when Disney Theatrical Productions, almost a year before the stage version of the animated film Frozen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, October 14, 2016
Because many of America’s largest subsidised theatres receive federal or state funding, and operate as tax-exempt organisations with defined cultural and educational
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, October 13, 2016
If you look at photos or video from Marathon of Hope, a new musical that just premiered in Waterloo, Canada, about an hour outside Toronto, something seems off. The musical is based on the l…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:58AMFriday, October 7, 2016
In hindsight, the more I think about it, I feel I should be at least slightly embarrassed. At the time, and in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 30, 2016
It was by coincidence, not design, that I was in mid-air over the Atlantic while Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump engaged in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 23, 2016
I did not get to see the concert earlier this week where Cynthia Erivo sang from The Color Purple, Chilina Kennedy sang
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 22, 2016
There’s a very large tree that has been traveling around the Dallas-Fort Worth region in Texas. There’s no need to worry, as the tree hasn’t acquired independent mobility and become se…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 01:46PMAs theatre buffs know, there are two major musicals drawn from Joseph Moncure March’s The Wild Party, which debuted in New York within months of one another: the Michael John LaChiusa-Geor…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:38AMFriday, September 16, 2016
In theatre, there’s typically somewhere between 90 minutes to two and a half hours to establish characters, take them through a plot
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 9, 2016
To start at the end, or at least where we are today: Michele Roberge, executive director of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of California State University, has resigned, e…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 05:17PMUpon hearing that New York’s the Public Theater’s production of Twelfth Night included in its cast members of the Jambalaya Brass Band, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 8, 2016
“Unfortunately, no deaf actors showed up to the auditions.” The statement above was made yesterday in a public statement to the Deaf and hard of hearing community by Leslie Charipar, art…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:48PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
In recent years, it’s been suggested that some companies and organizations have intentionally caused upset through a statement or product, only to quickly recant, for the express purpose …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:37PMSaturday, September 3, 2016
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is-a comin’ down the street, and apparently it’s not interested in doing business with kids who aspire to the arts, their parents, their teachers, or arts orga…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:37PMFriday, September 2, 2016
I am not a betting man, but if you are reading this column, I would wager that you’ve already listened to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Plenty of theatres operate with somewhat generic mission statements, simply describing their goals of producing ‘excellent theatre’ that represents the ‘breadth of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 19, 2016
By confessing up front that this week’s column concerns an adjustment in the government overtime provisions of US labour law, I risk
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, August 18, 2016
Now in its 20th year, the New York International Fringe Festival, better known as FringeNYC, has presented nearly 4,000 productions for five-performance runs each summer, sustaining a beehiv…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 09:50AMMonday, August 15, 2016
The casting of the upcoming production of In The Heights at Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, in particular a non-Latinx actor in the leading role of Usnavi, has provoked a great deal of …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:50AMThe casting of the upcoming production of In The Heights at Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, in particular the hiring of a non-Latinx actor for the leading role of Usnavi, has provoke…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:30AMFriday, August 12, 2016
Walking through Covent Garden, I always imagine a site-specific production of My Fair Lady (or Pygmalion), with the opening scene played out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 7, 2016
Thanks to smartphone technology, we all walk around with cameras in our pockets or bags, but tend to pull them out to take pictures of events, of friends, of ourselves. As someone trained on…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:30PMTo a particular subset of junior comedy nerds, of which I was an unapologetic member, 1976 was a watershed year, for a reason only tangentially connected to the official Bicentennial celebra…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:06AMFriday, August 5, 2016
With James Graham’s Privacy now playing at The Public Theater in a co-production with the Donmar Warehouse, New York audiences are currently
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
It is quite possible that, when the English stage was officially opened up to allow women to perform alongside men, most likely in 1660 when Margaret Hughes played Desdemona, some arg…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:54AMFriday, July 29, 2016
In hindsight, the slogan ‘now and forever’ looks a bit less like marketing and a bit more like hubris. While it didn’t
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