Tuesday, 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 04:45PMMonday, February 9, 2015
When I first started going to theatre in my teens, I loved attending post-performance discussions and special seminars and panels about plays. They were my education, my chance to learn from…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:55AMFriday, February 6, 2015
Though she made her film debut at age 12 and her Broadway debut at 14, Cynthia Nixon – perhaps best known as Miranda on the TV series Sex and the City – is making her directing debut wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
There were, in my estimation, many interesting people at the first performance of Almost, Maine in Hickory NC this past Thursday night.
To begin with, there was the author, John Cariani, …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:53AMSaturday, January 17, 2015
“I hope that The Vagina Monologues is a point of departure – it’s not a panacea, it’s not the only play, it’s not the definitive play. It’s a play, it’s an offering.”
Thos…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:26PMSunday, January 4, 2015
One of the great pleasures of a long holiday period, with one's office is closed for an extended time, is the freedom to go exploring, be it in life or online, guilt-free (or at least relat…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:41PMSunday, December 28, 2014
Are these my “best” blog posts of 2014? I couldn’t say. All I know is that they’re my most read, from a year in which page views on my site more than doubled over 2013.
Certainly …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:05PMSunday, December 21, 2014
I have never attended Theater J in Washington DC. I have become increasingly aware of its work as controversy over that work has risen in recent years, while at the same time I have become a…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:02PMFriday, December 19, 2014
Many of you already know the story of the Maiden High School production of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine, shuttered by school officials this fall due to the content of a single scene in wh…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:50AMI’m not given to making predictions about what will happen in the weeks and months to come, but as this is my final regular column of 2014, I’m willing to look into my crystal ball…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, December 18, 2014
As the Sony hacking case has played out over the past several weeks, it’s a story that has been relegated mostly to the business pages and, simultaneously, the gossip industry. With no one…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:48AMFriday, December 12, 2014
21 months after it began performances on Broadway, the RSC-birthed musical Matilda announced last week that it has recouped its initial investment. The show was reportedly capitalized at $16…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
In a week when flaws in Rolling Stone’s reporting of a culture of rape on the University of Virginia campus created national headlines, the lapses of a single cultural reporter at the Wall…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:49AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Not to dash anyone’s dreams, but I think it’s fair to say that the majority of the hundreds of thousands of students who participate in high school theatre annually will not go on to pro…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:28AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
To say that Newman University’s production of the musical Legally Blonde was performed with its book and lyrics intact this past Saturday and Sunday would seem to be a wholly unremarkable …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:07AMMonday, November 24, 2014
As prestige movies open pell-mell in the next few weeks, and Oscar campaigns already underway blaze into full public awareness, one of the contenders will surely be The Imitation Game, starr…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:55AMFriday, November 21, 2014
Howard Sherman’s fortnightly dispatch from Broadway is your essential catch-up guide to all the latest news, rumours and castings on the other side of the Atlantic. In this edition, Glenn …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, November 20, 2014
A couple of years ago, in conversation with a childhood friend on Facebook, we began recalling the hours spent in my basement listening to the early comedy records of Bill Cosby. Suddenly, a…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:14PMSaturday, November 8, 2014
When the news hit on Thursday, it flew around the New York theatre community as quickly as the unexpected closing of a Broadway show. The Cafe Edison on 47th Street is a fixture, one that o…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 03:16PMMonday, November 3, 2014
In the song “The Book Report” from the musical You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt struggles to complete her homework assignment: 100 words on Peter Rabbit. Falling short, …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:26AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Earlier this month, the administration at Maiden High School in Maiden, North Carolina tried to put a stop to the student production of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine. With permission slips …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:37AMFriday, October 17, 2014
This week, news travels across the Atlantic that there are high-level shake-ups at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Zhivago sets his sights on Broadway at last and we find out the sad reason…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
As headlines go, “A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created” embodies what many of us were taught in school about the well-made essay: tell …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:51AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Aside from being the month of copious pumpkin flavored foodstuffs, October also brings two perennial theatrical top ten lists that are worthy of note: American Theatre magazine’s list of t…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:33AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, yet another high school play was canceled over its content, this time at Santiago High School in Corona, California. Unlike the cases we often hear about, there was no…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:22AMFriday, September 26, 2014
I anticipate that this October will be the month of “freak,” and not because of Halloween. Though that won’t help. Because the media can’t resist trend stories, and any three or more…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:36AMFriday, September 19, 2014
I am angry and I am sad. But I am not entirely surprised. Earlier this morning, Dawn Burch, drama director at South Williamsport Area Junior/Senior High School in Pennsylvania, was fired fro…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:58PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Even if I were to attend the Board of Education meeting of the South Williamsport Area School District in Pennsylvania this coming Monday, September 22, I couldn’t speak. That’s because …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:48AMThursday, August 28, 2014
Among the many responses I’ve received to my accounts of the censorship of the musical Spamalot at South Williamsport Junior/Senior High in Pennsylvania was a tweet from Dane Rooney, an En…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:30AMThursday, August 21, 2014
Once each year, the world turns its eyes to Williamsport and South Williamsport PA, as young athletes from around the globe compete in the Little League World Series. This year has garnered …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:14AMMonday, August 18, 2014
There was a time, children, not so very long ago, when hit plays ran much longer than than 131 performances. Why 131? Because in the last ten complete Broadway seasons, that’s the average …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:28AM 
