Monday, May 11, 2015
Cush 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 06:56AMFriday, May 8, 2015
World Premiere Fugard Play at Signature Theatre In the earliest decades of Athol Fugard’s playwriting career, his plays debuted at South Africa’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, May 7, 2015
“You know, if we all agreed to stop putting critics’ quotes in our ads, they’d lose their power over us, and we could just sell our shows on what we think is best about them.”
I w…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:40PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
British designer Bob Crowley has received a special citation at this year’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle awards. Crowley, who last month
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, May 4, 2015
When it was all said and done, three student-written short plays, part of an evening of playlets, monologues and songs, went on as scheduled at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, Colorado…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:56AMFriday, May 1, 2015
While the Tony Awards grab the major headlines, there are a range of other theatrical awards that are given out in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, April 24, 2015
Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya opens at the Culture Project The South Africa-set Mies Julie introduced me to the work of Yael Farber when
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home reaches Broadway Widely acclaimed in its premiere last season at the Public Theatre, Lisa Kron and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
A theatre scene performed al fresco on a spring Florida evening sounds idyllic. But when Tomas Roldan and Matthew Ferro, juniors at New World School of the Arts High School, took their award…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:25AMFriday, April 10, 2015
An American in Paris opens on April 12 The ongoing spate of musicals adapted from movies continues unabated, but when An American
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, April 3, 2015
David Bowie, Enda Walsh and Ivo van Hove collaborate on Lazarus A new theatre project from either Ivo Van Hove or Enda
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
After nearly three years during which playwright David Adjmi was prevented from authorizing any productions of, or the publication of, his play 3C, a dark parody of Three’s Company, he h…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:03PMMonday, March 30, 2015
If you have any interest in the subject of diversity in entertainment, no doubt you’re aware of the firestorm kicked off last week by TV editor and co-editor-in-chief of the entertainment …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 05:03PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Are you still grumbling about “tweet seats”? Oh, that is so 2013. Time to get with the program and start worrying about the newest development in mobile tech, which could have a vastly m…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:27AMCarey Mulligan and Bill Nighy opening in Skylight London tourists visiting New York could be forgiven if they feel a bit of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
In case you haven’t heard, Caucasian actors are being victimized by casting practices at the television networks. They, after holding primacy on screen since the earliest days of televisio…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:25AMMonday, March 23, 2015
If you happen to know of any young people who you’re trying to dissuade from careers in the creative arts, you might want to casually leave around two new books for them to find. Scott Tim…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:24AMFriday, March 20, 2015
Laura Linney plays Patricia Highsmith at the Geffen Playhouse Patricia Highsmith stands among the pantheon of great thriller writers, notably for her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFriday, March 13, 2015
Will Ambassador Theatre Group acquire more Broadway theatres? The New York Post reports that the Ambassador Theatre Group is looking to expand
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Last night, a painting hanging in the town library in Trumbull, Connecticut was defaced, while in the same building, the library board was holding a meeting about the display of said paintin…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:14PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
It is the policy of London’s Underground, commonly known as "the tube," to not accept advertising which, in the words of it supervisory authority, Transport for London, “may cause widesp…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:57AMFriday, March 6, 2015
If, like me, you’re connected to members of the Chicago theatre community on social media (I’m NYC based), you’ve certainly seen an outpouring of reaction to two major reviews of the n…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:16AMLarry David debuts on Broadway in Fish in the Dark As you see this, it will have only been hours since the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Remember Trumbull, Connecticut?
That’s the town where a new high school principal canceled a production of the student edition of the musical Rent in the fall of 2013. The resultant outcr…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:36PMFriday, February 27, 2015
The big news of this week came on Tuesday, when a press conference was held at The Public Theater to announce what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
It is not, sad to say, news that controversy has surrounded a production of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi. It is certainly not surprising to hear that such controversy took place on a …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:52AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Last night, I was extremely flattered and honored to receive the second annual Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s “Defender” Award, for my work on behalf of artists' rights and against ce…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:46PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Perhaps you’re unaware of it, but there’s an arts education film up for an Oscar this year. And no, I’m not referring to something in the documentary short subject category, but rather…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:49AMI’m mentioning the world premiere of KJ Sanchez and Jenny Mercein’s X’s and O’s (A Football Love Story) rather late in its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
No, I’m sorry, it’s not a blog post; it’s a press release. But if you’ll read on, I hope you’ll understand why I’ve placed it here, and indulge me this once. – Howard
NEW YO…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:18AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Seen any good productions of David Adjmi’s play 3C lately?
Sorry, that’s a trick question with a self-evident answer: of course you haven’t. That’s because in the two an…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:45PM 
