Monday, 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 07:23PMFriday, April 22, 2016
The announcement last week that the Broadway production of the musical Matilda will be closing at the end of this year caught
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 11, 2016
“We really pride ourselves on putting so much out for actors,” said the artistic director, who founded and has run the small non-Equity theatre company for more than a decade. “I’ve …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 09:50AMSunday, April 10, 2016
When we last looked in on Ocala, Florida on March 2, the City Council had declined to take any action on the claim by local businessman Brad Dinkins that upcoming performances in city owned …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:44PMIn what will most assuredly give comfort to aspiring performers everywhere, you’ll be highly amused to know that Cate Blanchett began her career singing silly songs in the Melbourne Unive…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:52AMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Online or in print, headlines are meant to be grabbers. Just this week, I was taken aback by, and simply had to read, The Independent’s "Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:20PMMy memory of the moment is quite vivid, if inevitably inexact. It happened 41 years ago, in the early afternoon, in Mrs. Winkler’s seventh grade science class at Amity Junior High School, …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:10AMFriday, April 8, 2016
The recent laws passed by the states of North Carolina and Mississippi, which condone discrimination against LGBT citizens under the guise of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, April 1, 2016
Earlier this week, Cher announced that producers were working on a musical based on her life. It seems a reasonable idea. After
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, March 28, 2016
I’m seeing Brian Dennehy in a play Monday night. I know next to nothing about it. Apparently, neither does Brian. The play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Exiting the subway at Christopher Street, turning south on Seventh Avenue, my eyes always turn to the brick building on my left, with the word “Garage” inlaid near the peak of its low-ri…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:28AMFriday, March 18, 2016
I’m writing this column during an interval. I’ll still be waiting out that interval when I write again next week. In fact,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
The recent flurry of conversations surrounding theatre chat rooms, prompted in large part by a blog post from Patti Murin in the wake of the premature shutdown of the musical Nerds, have bee…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 09:19PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Let’s get the story straight. When Tappan Zee High School’s production of Mel Brooks’s The Producers was performed this weekend, there were swastikas on stage. This shouldn’t be an…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:03PMLet’s get the story straight. When Tappan Zee High School’s production of Mel Brooks’s The Producers was performed this weekend, there were swastikas on stage. This shouldn’t be any …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 04:53PMSunday, March 13, 2016
The recent flurry of conversations surrounding theatre chat rooms, prompted in large part by a blog post from Patti Murin in the wake of the premature shutdown of the musical Nerds, have …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:00PMFriday, March 11, 2016
The achievements of Lin-Manuel’s Hamilton are significant and expansive, so much so that I need not add to the proliferation of reviews, essays, parodies, think pieces and so on engendered…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:12PMThe fact that Nerds, a musical about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs which has been in development for a decade, cancelled its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
“In America, where we have diverse populations, even if you’re in a community theatre, I think it’s better to not do the show rather than do it in yellowface or blackface.” “The sh…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 05:29PM“In America, where we have diverse populations, even if you’re in a community theatre, I think it’s better to not do the show rather than do it in yellowface or blackface.” “The sh…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 08:28AMFriday, March 4, 2016
There was something a bit jarring about hearing that John Doyle will open his first season as the new artistic director of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
When a student-devised piece of theatre begins as The Politics of Dancing, an examination of relationships springing from Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and is ultimately produced as This Ti…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 05:18PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Hamilton creator has worked toward this since sixth grade
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 01:37PMWhen a student-devised piece of theatre begins as The Politics of Dancing, an examination of relationships springing from Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and is ultimately produced as This Title…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 01:07PMFriday, February 26, 2016
Hearing the word ‘vagina' aloud before 1996, outside of a medical setting, was a bit startling. Encountering it in an article was likely to cause many readers more than a bit of surprise. …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:02PMEven by the standards of today’s much-diminished independent bookstores, New York’s Drama Book Shop is a fairly intimate boutique, with narrow frontage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Hearing the word ‘vagina’ aloud before 1996, outside of a medical setting, was a bit startling. Encountering it in an article was likely to cause many readers more than a bit of surp…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 07:15PMIf you’re not familiar with Julia Pascal’s 2003 play Crossing Jerusalem, that's because the play has only had two productions in the U.S. Or perhaps it is more correct to say that it ha…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:15AMTuesday, February 23, 2016
If you’re not familiar with Julia Pascal’s 2003 play Crossing Jerusalem, that’s because the play has only had two productions in the U.S. Or perhaps it is more correct to say that …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:04PMFriday, February 19, 2016
I guess my dash from row O to row A the other night pretty much erased any pretence of professional distance. Especially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMSaturday, February 6, 2016
There’s nothing quite like getting a cease and desist letter. It may be commonplace if you’re an attorney and you’re receiving a cease and desist claim on behalf of clients, but for a…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 06:08PM 
