Friday, 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Subsequent to Arts Integrity exploring the Porchlight Musical Theatre’s casting of their forthcoming production of In The Heights, as well as Hedy Weiss’s article for the Chicago Sun-Tim…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 11:26AMFriday, July 22, 2016
Last week, The New York Times reported on a dispute between Theatre for a New Audience, one of the city’s major producers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Late last month, a headline writer for McClatchy DC was not alone in getting caught in a linguistic, oxymoronic knot when they announced, “Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:08PMFriday, July 15, 2016
In an era of constrained school budgets, it is not all that unusual – albeit quite problematic in terms of diversity and equity – to find schools charging students and their parents “a…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 09:54AMOf all the things that theatre producers and artists are thinking about when assembling a production, sudden fluctuations in the world currency
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 8, 2016
“I knew y’all would come. It’s the rest of the world I couldn’t have anticipated.” That was what Lin-Manuel Miranda admitted about his extraordinary recent success with the musical…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:02AMWith Broadway’s seasonal winnowing of the herd well underway – only 29 shows running, with nine closing by the first weekend in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, July 7, 2016
Several sentences in the letter posted to the Facebook page of the Atlanta Lyric Theatre could easily serve as a model for statements by theatres nationally. They read: Moving forward, it is…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 09:54AMFriday, July 1, 2016
It was not a surprise that Audra McDonald would be out of the musical Shuffle Along for much of the summer. From
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 27, 2016
As a result of their quixotic effort to secure the first high school performance rights to Hamilton, Wexford Collegiate School of the Arts’s Hamilton videos drew a great deal attentio…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:43PMFriday, June 17, 2016
The closure of a 50-seat theatre in Chicago, even one with a 28-year history of production, doesn’t typically become a topic of conversation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, June 16, 2016
On the one hand, it’s hard not to admire the efforts of Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Canada, near Toronto. A teacher and her students made as thorough a pitch as…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 08:29PMMonday, June 13, 2016
If you’re looking for critical consensus, you won’t find much of it in the new book The Critics Say…: 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future (Mc…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:24AMFriday, June 10, 2016
The bombshell article in the Chicago Reader by Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt, about serially abusive practices at Chicago’s Profiles Theatre, rightly zoomed around the theatre world f…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 04:36PMWhen it comes right down to it, the question isn’t whether people will pay outrageous sums of money to see Hamilton. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMI never wanted to run away and join the circus when I was a child. This is no doubt due to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 6, 2016
The headline in London Sunday Times was certain to make anyone who advocates for diversity in the arts sit up, take notice and get quite upset. It read, “Lack of diversity not a problem, s…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 11:26AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
While much will be written about the passing of Muhammad Ali, he does leave us with a theatrical footnote. I’m speaking of his single Broadway role, as the lead in the musical Buck White. …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:03PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Walking into most theatres, the experience is much the same. At one end of the space, ornate or otherwise, there is a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Before you start shouting about spoiler alerts, let me point out that the headline of this piece does not indicate in what context this suicide occurs. Could be real life. Could be a play, a…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 05:46PMHow is Alan Ayckbourn viewed across the pond? New York blogger Howard Sherman reports… Since 2005, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright and director, has been bringing plays – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:13AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Since 2005, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright and director, has been bringing plays – often two or even three at a time – to 59E59 Theaters in New York from his home base at the…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:58AMFriday, May 27, 2016
The act of making theatre is of endless fascination to those who make theatre, which accounts for the litany of backstage plays
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Of all the differences in arts marketing between America and the UK (and Europe), perhaps the most significant is our dearly held
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
The statements, on their face, are utterly startling. “Blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field.” “I don’t have to take this. Yes, my board is all white, and…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:49PMThe statements, on their face, are utterly startling. “Blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field.” “I don’t have to take this. Yes, my board is all white, and…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:28PMFriday, May 6, 2016
I never saw Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof. I just feel like I have. How is that, since I was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, April 29, 2016
The day before the new musical Diary of a Wimpy Kid began previews at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, a headline in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Years from now, newer converts to Hamilton fandom will marvel at how Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail assembled such a notable cast. It will be viewed like Rent, like American Graffiti, a …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:56AMMonday, April 25, 2016
This morning, I was both annoyed and bemused to learn that Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, two esteemed British actors, had just been given airtime by National Public Radio, to advance the Ox…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:23PM 
