Monday, 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“What will you learn?” asks the home page of the website of Clarion University in Pennsylvania. In the wake of the school’s handling of the casting of white students in Asian roles in…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:15AMFriday, November 13, 2015
“The students are victims,” writes playwright Lloyd Suh, regarding the events that led to his play Jesus in India being canceled a little more than a week before it was to be produced at…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:21PMBruce Willis in Misery on Broadway It has been more than 30 years since Bruce Willis last appeared on a New York
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Four words. Why do four words bother me so much?
After all, they appear in one review of an As You Like It production at the National Theatre in London that I’m highly unlikely to ever …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:54AMFriday, November 6, 2015
Broadway’s Bridge begins van Hove season in NYC After an amuse bouche in Philadelphia, with a brief run of his After the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, November 2, 2015
A great deal has been written about the diminishment of arts journalism in general, and criticism in particular. Editors want to focus more only on big name productions, or celebrities, as b…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:46PMSunday, November 1, 2015
A few weeks ago, the headline of a review rubbed me the wrong way.
I didn’t have an issue with the review itself, by Charles McNulty for The Los Angeles Times. But the headline for the …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:34PMFriday, October 30, 2015
As I write, if you visit the website of the Fargo Moorhead Opera, you’ll find an evocative image of a beautiful young Asian woman used in conjunction with the company’s production of Mad…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:16AMKing Charles III begins Broadway reign While Robert Powell is touring the UK in the title role of King Charles III, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
People are dumbfounded. People are incredulous. People are angry.
In the past few hours, a month-old story began circulating on social media about a production of Katori Hall’s wide…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:46PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Keira Knightley makes her US stage debut as Therese Raquin For a star of her wattage, Keira Knightley’s Broadway debut has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, October 16, 2015
“Is there a link for this so I can read the whole thing if there's more?”
“Maybe this wants to grow up and become a blog post?”
“I've been encouraging him to do so!!!!”
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SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:30AMDames at Sea sets sail on Broadway Broadway’s ongoing plunge into Off-Broadway hits of the past has now surfaced with the 1968
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, October 9, 2015
AR Gurney’s Sylvia marks its Broadway territory With more than 40 plays to his credit, AR Gurney has been one of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, October 2, 2015
“This is a community art, built only on the goodwill between artists, and there isn't enough money to bring in lawyers.”
If you ask me, that quote in The Los Angeles Times, from playw…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:39AMAtlantic Theatre Company is on Cloud Nine When Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 made its US debut Off-Broadway in 1981, its director was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Deaf West’s Spring Awakening reaches Broadway from humble beginnings The Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening has been almost the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Dallas Theatre Center offers up a jug of Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical I’m a bit stumped trying to figure out precisely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Please consider the following two statements.
In a description of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado: “The location is a fictitious Japanese town.”
“There are no ethnically spec…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:18PMFriday, September 11, 2015
Samantha Barks is Amelie as musical debuts in California Samantha Barks is making her US stage debut at California’s Berkeley Rep as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Members of the Greensboro College community have the right to be free from gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct of any kind.
– from the Greensboro Colle…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:49AMThe King becomes a drag queen in Matthew Lopez’s Georgia McBride at MCC Theater How does an Elvis impersonator go from playing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
If you haven’t been reading Toronto’s The Globe and Mail every weekend this summer, then you likely haven’t come across J. Kelly Nestruck’s terrific series in which he followed a si…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:56AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Ivo van Hove’s After The Rehearsal/Persona making a brief visit to Philadelphia I’ve just discovered that America’s unofficial Ivo van Hove Festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, August 20, 2015
For the week ending July 19, almost at summer’s halfway point, there were 29 shows on Broadway, meaning 11 theatres were dark.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Four years ago, I pondered whether, in this age of social media and vastly accelerated information distribution online, “Will The Embargo Hold?” I was referring to the long-accepted prac…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:59AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Labor negotiations only tend to break into the news when they concern large public sector unions or when things are going badly. This does not concern the former or, so far as I know, the la…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:16AMIndie film Waitress transformed into musical at American Repertory Theatre The 2007 film Waitress was a charming small movie starring Keri Russell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, August 7, 2015
It would be hypocritical of me to speak out against precisely how people have expressed their feelings about, and to, Words Players Theatre in Rochester, Minnesota, because I spend so much o…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:15AMAnnie Baker’s John gets weird at New York’s Signature Theatre With her Pulitzer prize-winning The Flick still running in Greenwich Village, Annie
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