586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
This morning, I was both annoyed and bemused to learn that Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, two esteemed British actors, had just been given airtime by National Public Radio, to advance the Ox…
The announcement last week that the Broadway production of the musical Matilda will be closing at the end of this year caught
"We really pride ourselves on putting so much out for actors," said the artistic director, who founded and has run the small non-Equity theatre company for more than a decade. "I've had my o…
When we last looked in on Ocala, Florida on March 2, the City Council had declined to take any action on the claim by local businessman Brad Dinkins that upcoming performances in city owned …
In what will most assuredly give comfort to aspiring performers everywhere, you'll be highly amused to know that Cate Blanchett began her career singing silly songs in the Melbourne Unive…
Online or in print, headlines are meant to be grabbers. Just this week, I was taken aback by, and simply had to read, Â The Independent's "Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima…
My memory of the moment is quite vivid, if inevitably inexact. It happened 41 years ago, in the early afternoon, in Mrs. Winkler's seventh grade science class at Amity Junior High School, as…
The recent laws passed by the states of North Carolina and Mississippi, which condone discrimination against LGBT citizens under the guise of
Earlier this week, Cher announced that producers were working on a musical based on her life. It seems a reasonable idea. After
I'm seeing Brian Dennehy in a play Monday night. I know next to nothing about it. Apparently, neither does Brian. The play
Exiting the subway at Christopher Street, turning south on Seventh Avenue, my eyes always turn to the brick building on my left, with the word "Garage" inlaid near the peak of its low-rise r…
I'm writing this column during an interval. I'll still be waiting out that interval when I write again next week. In fact,
The recent flurry of conversations surrounding theatre chat rooms, prompted in large part by a blog post from Patti Murin in the wake of the premature shutdown of the musical Nerds, have bee…
Let's get the story straight. When Tappan Zee High School's production of Mel Brooks's The Producers was performed this weekend, there were swastikas on stage. This shouldn't be any su…
Let's get the story straight. When Tappan Zee High School's production of Mel Brooks's The Producers was performed this weekend, there were swastikas on stage. This shouldn't be any surprise…
The recent flurry of conversations surrounding theatre chat rooms, prompted in large part by a blog post from Patti Murin in the wake of the premature shutdown of the musical Nerds,…
The achievements of Lin-Manuel's Hamilton are significant and expansive, so much so that I need not add to the proliferation of reviews, essays, parodies, think pieces and so on engendered b…
The fact that Nerds, a musical about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs which has been in development for a decade, cancelled its
"In America, where we have diverse populations, even if you're in a community theatre, I think it's better to not do the show rather than do it in yellowface or blackface." "The show" in que…
"In America, where we have diverse populations, even if you're in a community theatre, I think it's better to not do the show rather than do it in yellowface or blackface." "The show" in que…
There was something a bit jarring about hearing that John Doyle will open his first season as the new artistic director of
When a student-devised piece of theatre begins as The Politics of Dancing, an examination of relationships springing from Ibsen's A Doll's House, and is ultimately produced as This …
Hamilton creator has worked toward this since sixth grade
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When a student-devised piece of theatre begins as The Politics of Dancing, an examination of relationships springing from Ibsen's A Doll's House, and is ultimately produced as This Title Has…
Hearing the word 'vagina' aloud before 1996, outside of a medical setting, was a bit startling. Encountering it in an article was likely to cause many readers more than a bit of surprise. Se…
