586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
I did not get to see the concert earlier this week where Cynthia Erivo sang from The Color Purple, Chilina Kennedy sang
There's a very large tree that has been traveling around the Dallas-Fort Worth region in Texas. There's no need to worry, as the tree hasn't acquired independent mobility and become sentient…
As theatre buffs know, there are two major musicals drawn from Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, which debuted in New York within months of one another: the Michael John LaChiusa-George…
In theatre, there's typically somewhere between 90 minutes to two and a half hours to establish characters, take them through a plot
To start at the end, or at least where we are today: Michele Roberge, executive director of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of California State University, has resigned, e…
Upon hearing that New York's the Public Theater’s production of Twelfth Night included in its cast members of the Jambalaya Brass Band, the
"Unfortunately, no deaf actors showed up to the auditions." The statement above was made yesterday in a public statement to the Deaf and hard of hearing community by Leslie Charipar, artisti…
In recent years, it's been suggested that some companies and organizations have intentionally caused upset through a statement or product, only to quickly recant, for the express purpose …
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is-a comin' down the street, and apparently it's not interested in doing business with kids who aspire to the arts, their parents, their teachers, or arts organiza…
I am not a betting man, but if you are reading this column, I would wager that you've already listened to the
Plenty of theatres operate with somewhat generic mission statements, simply describing their goals of producing 'excellent theatre' that represents the 'breadth of
By confessing up front that this week's column concerns an adjustment in the government overtime provisions of US labour law, I risk
Now in its 20th year, the New York International Fringe Festival, better known as FringeNYC, has presented nearly 4,000 productions for five-performance runs each summer, sustaining a beehiv…
The casting of the upcoming production of In The Heights at Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, in particular a non-Latinx actor in the leading role of Usnavi, has provoked a great deal of …
The casting of the upcoming production of In The Heights at Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, in particular the hiring of a non-Latinx actor for the leading role of Usnavi, has p…
Walking through Covent Garden, I always imagine a site-specific production of My Fair Lady (or Pygmalion), with the opening scene played out
Thanks to smartphone technology, we all walk around with cameras in our pockets or bags, but tend to pull them out to take pictures of events, of friends, of ourselves. As someone trained on…
To a particular subset of junior comedy nerds, of which I was an unapologetic member, 1976 was a watershed year, for a reason only tangentially connected to the official Bicentennial celebra…
With James Graham's Privacy now playing at The Public Theater in a co-production with the Donmar Warehouse, New York audiences are currently
It is quite possible that, when the English stage was officially opened up to allow women to perform alongside men, most likely in 1660 when Margaret Hughes played Desdemona, some arg…
In hindsight, the slogan ‘now and forever’ looks a bit less like marketing and a bit more like hubris. While it didn't
Subsequent to Arts Integrity exploring the Porchlight Musical Theatre's casting of their forthcoming production of In The Heights, as well as Hedy Weiss's article for the Chicago Sun-Times (…
Last week, The New York Times reported on a dispute between Theatre for a New Audience, one of the city's major producers
Late last month, a headline writer for McClatchy DC was not alone in getting caught in a linguistic, oxymoronic knot when they announced, "Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants."…
In an era of constrained school budgets, it is not all that unusual " albeit quite problematic in terms of diversity and equity " to find schools charging students and their parents "activit…
