Wednesday, March 26, 2014
I am going to take it for granted that, since you’ve opted to read this article, you care about the arts. I’m also going to save time and typing by assuming that you appreciate media cov…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:01AMFriday, March 14, 2014
2014 marks the “mid-year” elections in the United States, the halfway point between presidential contests, but politics both past and present are blooming on stages across the country. R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Last year, the actor Taylor Mac played the title role in the Foundry Theatre’s acclaimed production of Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan. This tale of a downtrodden woman who secures …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:22PMMonday, March 3, 2014
Fact: America’s newspapers are locked in a struggle for survival, fighting for financial stability and relevance at a time when money and attention increasingly focuses on online and video…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:18PMThursday, February 13, 2014
I’m not given to posting press releases here and this isn’t the start of a trend, but I’m making an exception to insure this good news gets around and there’s nothing for me to say b…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 06:11PMSunday, January 26, 2014
There’s nothing I can say. This inexplicable attack leaves me, and no doubt others, inarticulate. Hold Randy Gener in your heart as he recovers. Do what you can to support him in that reco…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:28PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Two days ago, the town council of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland shut down a planned engagement of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) on the…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:04PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida is back in rehearsal with their production of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, to restore the script as the fine Irish dramatist wrote…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:13PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
The issue, to me, is not whether Peter Pan is played by a man or a woman. The issue is whether Peter Pan has to be white. Perhaps I should back up. On Sunday afternoon, via tweets (and later…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:18PMThursday, January 2, 2014
The rise of internet culture has caused many shifts in how we consume information, with one of the more amusing side benefits being the rise of the fictional Twitter user. Disregarding spamb…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:17PMFriday, December 20, 2013
As the last open slots of the spring season on Broadway are filled, a new play by Eric Coble called The Velocity of Autumn has snagged the Booth Theatre for a home. Originally announced for.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
You’re not going to believe this. On Monday, Principal Marc Guarino of Trumbull High School in Connecticut reinstated the Thespian Troupe’s production of Rent, after three weeks of negot…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:10AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Looking up and staring while walking around in Times Square sounds like the classic stance of a gawking tourist, but should you happen to be at the northeast corner of Forty-Si…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:40AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Yesterday afternoon, Trumbull High School Principal Marc Guarino released a letter in which he announced the restoration of Rent to the school schedule, albeit with new dates. His letter was…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:36AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Report as of 9 am, Tuesday, December 10 Yesterday afternoon, in response to a caller on WICC Radio in Connecticut, host Jim Buchanan reached or was contacted by the First Selectman of Trumbu…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:03AMFriday, December 6, 2013
I had not intended to write again about the conflict over a planned production of Rent in Trumbull, but the story continues to grow. In the interest of brevity, this post will merely draw yo…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:10AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
In the immediate wake of announcing to the Trumbull High School Thespian Society that he was canceling the planned spring production of Rent, Principal Marc Guarino spent almost an hour talk…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:19PMOutside of the annual Tony Awards broadcast, theatre is not a subject frequently dealt with on national television. So the next six days might be one of the richest confluences of theatre-re…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:15AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Last weekend in Connecticut, Trumbull High School’s Thespian Society presented their fall play. On Monday afternoon, instead of a scheduled informational session for those planning to audi…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:35AMMonday, November 25, 2013
If Trip Gabriel, the New York Times reporter who wrote yesterday’s story about the dire straits of the August Wilson Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, were steeped in Wilson’s writing, he m…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:16AMThursday, November 21, 2013
When it comes to Shakespeare, not all plays are created equal. That’s far from a surprise to anyone who pays attention; Hamlet certainly ranks far ahead of King John in the canon, and even…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:44AMNovember 21, 2013 President Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 Dear President Obama: There was an anniversary yesterday, and I’m willing to bet that you forgot all…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 07:38AMThursday, November 14, 2013
When I saw it for the first time last week, I was really struck by the poster for the West End debut of the musical Urinetown. Why? Because it didn’t look like a theatre poster. It looked …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 01:12PMMonday, November 4, 2013
It’s not unusual for book releases to be coordinated with a related event taking place elsewhere in the media circus: the autobiography that appears just as a star’s major film is coming…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:57AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
Position 1: a stage production that is recorded, filmed or actually broadcast live ceases to be theatre. It may be considered television or film, but it is a record of theatre, not the thing…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 02:57PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
In early July, just before she began rehearsals for the Broadway production of Big Fish, I had the opportunity to interview Director-Choreographer Susan Stroman for the autumn issue of the …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 04:43PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Having learned of high schools terminating productions and firing teachers over everything from Legally Blonde to The Laramie Project, it hardly comes as a surprise that Edward Albee’s Ton…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:19AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Oh, please. The headline is not a spoiler. More than 400 years after the play was written, “young doomed love” is the Romeo and Juliet brand, and I suspect that most anyone coming to see…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:12AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
The stories of troubled arts institutions abound these days: the closing of the New York City Opera, the end of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Theater of the Stars, the year-long standoff at the…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:48AMMonday, October 7, 2013
With two Romeo and Juliet productions currently underway in New York and a new film version due out this coming Friday, it seems time to inaugurate "Pop Goes Shakespeare," which might just a…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 08:55AMFriday, October 4, 2013
If you’ve not yet heard the story, the basic facts are these. Earlier this week, members of the football team at the University of Mississippi (aka "Ole Miss") were required to attend a pe…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:34AM 
