Saturday, 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 06:08PMThere’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: Howard Sherman at 10:56AMFriday, February 5, 2016
“I have a guy.” I used to hear this phrase a lot, from various people not in the theatre industry, who always
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Let’s start with the basics: no one can possibly prevent critics from reviewing shows if they want to do. Whether it’s requested or even imposed by theatre company, a venue, a rights hol…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 04:47PMLet’s start with the basics: no one can possibly prevent critics from reviewing shows if they want to do. Whether it’s requested or even imposed by theatre company, a venue, a rights hol…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:24PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
I am not given to reveries about bygone days or a review of my life choices on my birthdays. The same holds true for New Year’s eve and day. But just in time for my birthday this year, I…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:55AMFriday, January 29, 2016
If the sight of perhaps 750 theatre fans spontaneously breaking into a song from their favourite musical warms your heart, then the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
It’s a reflex action for those in the arts to recoil and get angry when creative work is described as “intolerable blasphemies.” But it’s probably worth giving a small shout out to t…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:34PMIt’s a reflex action for those in the arts to recoil and get angry when creative work is described as “intolerable blasphemies.” But it’s probably worth giving a small shout out to t…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 11:06AMMonday, January 25, 2016
"Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alienation. Where everything isn't meant to be okay." The details are very sketchy. The drama director hasn’t yet responded to a call or …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:12PM“Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alienation. Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.” The details are very sketchy. The drama director hasn’t yet responded to a ca…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 10:57AMThursday, January 21, 2016
This post originally appeared on hesherman.com. Republished with permission. If you’re a dedicated fan of the musical Hamilton, or if you follow me on social media, you may well have co…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:51AMFriday, January 15, 2016
It’s a tad too early to announce the emergence of a new trend, but two recent announcements suggest that there’s something brewing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Oh, British theatre, you’ve bested your American counterparts again, and you likely don’t even know about it. I should explain. In late
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, January 2, 2016
At first, they were a few lunchtime tweets, which proved of little interest, it seemed. But when I collected a couple, and added a few more, for a Facebook post at 9:30 pm on New Year…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:11PMSaturday, December 26, 2015
If the location of your office compels you to visit Times Square regularly, you are confronted at least twice a day (going to work and on your way home) by a crush of people, gaping tourists…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:38AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Oh, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, what are we going to do with you? It was surprising to many that you thought you could do a “classic” yellowface Mikado in New York in 2015. Bu…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:19PMI was certainly going to the theatre, and to Broadway, by the 1980s, but I never did see a show in the Mark Hellinger Theatre on 51st Street before it was sold to the Times Square Church. I�…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:52AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
I honestly wish I could figure out what makes one blog post a roaring success, and another a blip on the radar. Certainly the topic under discussion has some impact, but readership seems jus…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:57AMMonday, December 21, 2015
If you’re a dedicated fan of the musical Hamilton, or if you follow me on social media, you may well have come across of the streetside #Ham4Ham show videos I’ve been sharing since late …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:30AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Given that this is my last column of the year, I won’t take on a singular topic, but mention a coupe of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, December 11, 2015
Last week, more than 11 million people in the US watched a live broadcast of the musical The Wiz, an adaptation of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
There’s been a great deal of discussion in the past couple of months about the rights of playwrights, the legal protections of copyright and licensing agreements, the prerogative of direct…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:22PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Early last week, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee gave its blessing to a plan to elevate Broadway’s famed Palace Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, December 3, 2015
In the wake of the recent casting controversies over Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop and Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India, there have been a number of online commenters who have cited Lin-Manuel…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:16PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
I assume most people, either as a child heard, or as a parent deployed, the timeworn phrase, “If someone told you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it?” My parents had a vari…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:35AMFriday, November 27, 2015
They are, to many, the scourge of Times Square and the theatre district. I refer not to the prostitutes and three-card monte
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 20, 2015
I am delighted to report that all of the smoking, drinking, drugging and sexual references will be intact – tonight, tomorrow and Sunday – in the production of Maxwell Anderson's 1950s …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:15AMThere’s been a song running through my head for the past week, prompted by a series of press releases I’ve received. Anyone
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
“I come at this more like a lawyer, who would say that everybody has a right to a fair trial. Or a journalist, or a priest, who would hear the confession.”
– Anna Deavere Smith
On Nov…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:55PMMonday, November 16, 2015
In the many press accounts of director Michael Oatman casting a white man to play Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, stories have all acknowledged Oatman’s …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:05PM 
