Friday, August 7, 2015
Annie Baker’s John gets weird at New York’s Signature Theatre With her Pulitzer prize-winning The Flick still running in Greenwich Village, Annie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
It is not my habit to offer my opinion about current productions, and I tend to even avoid doing so retrospectively. But I do want to briefly discuss the shows I’ve seen over the past week…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:24AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
It is, without question, the feel-good theatre and pop culture copyright story of the day.
“Taylor Swift comes to rescue of Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre over use of hit song Shake It O…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:11AMMonday, August 3, 2015
Last weekend, I shared a story and wrote a blog post about Dylan Lawrence, a 13-year-old in Lincoln, Nebraska who staged what appeared to be a fairly impressive production of Shrek The Music…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:50AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
I should say right up front that, until about two hours before I began writing, I didn’t know anything about the Words Players Theatre of Rochester MN or its parent organization, Northland…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:58PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton opens on Broadway This is hardly the first time it has been mentioned in this column and this isn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSunday, July 26, 2015
Sundays tend to be slow days for theatre news, if you get most of your theatre news online. By the time I sit down to trawl through “the Sunday papers” for theatre stories to share, prim…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:49PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Major revival of Martin Sherman’s Bent in Los Angeles While Martin Sherman’s Bent was an important milestone in the portrayal of LGBT
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Seemingly out of nowhere, The Wall Street Journal published a column yesterday, "A Silenced Shakespeare in Washington: Shakespeare without puns is like French cooking without butter,” wh…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:33PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Ireland’s Druid Theatre tackles Shakespeare at Lincoln Centre While the many cultural imports that illuminate the Lincoln Centre Festival each summer are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, July 3, 2015
If you are a musical theatre fan in general, and a Rent fan in particular, and you’re going to church in or around Tullahoma, Tennessee this Sunday, there’s a chance you may not like a b…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:08PMThursday, July 2, 2015
A couple of decades ago, a hit Off-Broadway show at a subsidised theatre had two options when its run drew to an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Patti LuPone leads a theatre in Douglas Carter Beane’s Shows for Days Douglas Carter Beane has written a steady string of witty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
In his Theatre Addicts diary this week, Mates co-founder Mark Shenton took umbrage with The Sunday Times’ critic Christopher Hart’s review of American playwright Stephen Adly Gui…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AMMonday, June 22, 2015
“You can’t draw sweet water from a foul well,” critic Brooks Atkinson wrote of his initial reaction to the musical Pal Joey. I don’t know whether Christopher Hart of The Sunday Times…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:17AMFriday, June 19, 2015
New adaptation of Moby Dick surfaces at Chicago’s Lookingglass Given its oceanic setting and enormous title character, it’s really quite remarkable how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Go-going Head Over Heels at Oregon Shakespeare Festival You say you were just thinking that we don’t see enough revivals of Sir
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
If you’re like me, someone deeply committed to the arts – in practice, in education, in media coverage, in every aspect of life – you’ve probably had the same fantasy I’ve had over…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:43AMMonday, June 8, 2015
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time led a parade of 11 British winners at the 69th annual Tony Awards,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:14AMFriday, June 5, 2015
‘You give us $150 dollars and we’ll review your show.’ It sounds like a bizarro-world version of ‘You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.’
But that is, boiled to its e…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:22AMPerpetual technical rehearsal in Anne Washburn’s 10 Out of 12 at Soho Rep Those who work in the theatre know how arduous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMonday, June 1, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical, School of Rock, set to open in the autumn, will be showcased this week as part of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMThe Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the big winner at this year’s Drama Desk
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMFriday, May 29, 2015
Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg premieres at Manhattan Theatre Club While playwright Simon Stephens is British and his new play begins in a UK
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Broadway broke all-time attendance and revenue records in the recently completed 2014/15 season, selling 13.1 million tickets with gross sales of $1.37
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
I can’t compete with the literally hundreds of online tributes that are proliferating in advance of David Letterman’s final show this evening, except to say that I’ve been watching him…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:10AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
The story practically writes itself: fundraiser for anti-censorship group gets censored. Ironic headline, attention-grabbing tweet, you name it. That’s exactly what has happened in the pas…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:57AMFriday, May 15, 2015
Jim Parsons plays God on Broadway While starring on television’s top sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, may be bringing Jim Parsons untold
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, May 14, 2015
One of the great ironies of the word “Broadway” – certainly one of New York’s, if not America’s, best-known brands – is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMMonday, May 11, 2015
The Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time led the winners of the 2015 Outer Critics Circle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMCush Jumbo’s one-woman show Josephine and I has won the outstanding solo show prize at this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards in New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM 
