Ghostly Echoes In LA Theatre Dispute Need Hard And Fast Answers by Howard Sherman

"This is a community art, built only on the goodwill between artists, and there isn't enough money to bring in lawyers." If you ask me, that quote in The Los Angeles Times, from playwrigh…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:39am on October 2, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: October 2 by Howard Sherman

Atlantic Theatre Company is on Cloud Nine When Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 made its US debut Off-Broadway in 1981, its director was

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on October 2, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: September 25 by Howard Sherman

Deaf West's Spring Awakening reaches Broadway from humble beginnings The Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening has been almost the

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on September 25, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: September 18 by Howard Sherman

Dallas Theatre Center offers up a jug of Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical I'm a bit stumped trying to figure out precisely

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on September 18, 2015☆⚑

Putting On Yellowface For The Holidays With Gilbert & Sullivan & NYU by Howard Sherman

Please consider the following two statements. In a description of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado: "The location is a fictitious Japanese town." "There are no ethnically specific rol…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 3:18pm on September 15, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre picks: September 11 by Howard Sherman

Samantha Barks is Amelie as musical debuts in California Samantha Barks is making her US stage debut at California's Berkeley Rep as

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on September 11, 2015☆⚑

Harassment at a Campus Play About Sexual Violence by Howard Sherman

Members of the Greensboro College community have the right to be free from gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct of any kind.  " from the Greensboro Colle…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 9:49am on September 4, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre picks: September 4 by Howard Sherman

The King becomes a drag queen in Matthew Lopez's Georgia McBride at MCC Theater How does an Elvis impersonator go from playing

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on September 4, 2015☆⚑

A Critic Reports From The Front Lines of High School Theatre by Howard Sherman

If you haven't been reading Toronto's The Globe and Mail every weekend this summer, then you likely haven't come across J. Kelly Nestruck's terrific series in which he followed a single h…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:56am on August 22, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: August 21 by Howard Sherman

Ivo van Hove's After The Rehearsal/Persona making a brief visit to Philadelphia I've just discovered that America's unofficial Ivo van Hove Festival

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on August 21, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman: Is Broadway taking full advantage of its summer? by Howard Sherman

For the week ending July 19, almost at summer's halfway point, there were 29 shows on Broadway, meaning 11 theatres were dark.

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 1:00pm on August 20, 2015☆⚑

Is Cumbermania Turning The Media Into Show Doctors? by Howard Sherman

Four years ago, I pondered whether, in this age of social media and vastly accelerated information distribution online, "Will The Embargo Hold?" I was referring to the long-accepted practice…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:59am on August 19, 2015☆⚑

Broadway's Associates Are Asking For A Bit of Security by Howard Sherman

Labor negotiations only tend to break into the news when they concern large public sector unions or when things are going badly. This does not concern the former or, so far as I know, the la…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:16am on August 14, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: August 14 by Howard Sherman

Indie film Waitress transformed into musical at American Repertory Theatre The 2007 film Waitress was a charming small movie starring Keri Russell

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on August 14, 2015☆⚑

Writing A Different Script About Respect for Playwrights by Howard Sherman

It would be hypocritical of me to speak out against precisely how people have expressed their feelings about, and to, Words Players Theatre in Rochester, Minnesota, because I spend so much o…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:15am on August 7, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: August 7 by Howard Sherman

Annie Baker's John gets weird at New York's Signature Theatre With her Pulitzer prize-winning The Flick still running in Greenwich Village, Annie

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on August 7, 2015☆⚑

The Generous Audience Engagement of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Howard Sherman

It is not my habit to offer my opinion about current productions, and I tend to even avoid doing so retrospectively. But I do want to briefly discuss the shows I've seen over the past week o…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 7:24am on August 5, 2015☆⚑

Taylor Swift Cannot Always Save Your Show by Howard Sherman

It is, without question, the feel-good theatre and pop culture copyright story of the day. "Taylor Swift comes to rescue of Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre over use of hit song Shake It Off…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:11am on August 4, 2015☆⚑

The Lost Plays of H. Edward Sherman by Howard Sherman

Last weekend, I shared a story and wrote a blog post about Dylan Lawrence, a 13-year-old in Lincoln, Nebraska who staged what appeared to be a fairly impressive production of Shrek The Music…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 9:50am on August 3, 2015☆⚑

Disrespecting Playwrights and Their Words with Young Players in Minnesota by Howard Sherman

I should say right up front that, until about two hours before I began writing, I didn't know anything about the Words Players Theatre of Rochester MN or its parent organization, Northland W…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 7:58pm on August 1, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: July 31 by Howard Sherman

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton opens on Broadway This is hardly the first time it has been mentioned in this column and this isn't

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on July 31, 2015☆⚑

Saluting a Backyard Theatrical Impresario In Lincoln, Nebraska by Howard Sherman

Sundays tend to be slow days for theatre news, if you get most of your theatre news online. By the time I sit down to trawl through "the Sunday papers" for theatre stories to share, primaril…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 3:49pm on July 26, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: July 24 by Howard Sherman

Major revival of Martin Sherman's Bent in Los Angeles While Martin Sherman's Bent was an important milestone in the portrayal of LGBT

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on July 24, 2015☆⚑

Verbally Attacking 'Shakespeare Without Words' by Howard Sherman

Seemingly out of nowhere, The Wall Street Journal published a column yesterday, "A Silenced Shakespeare in Washington: Shakespeare without puns is like French cooking without butter," …

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:33pm on July 15, 2015☆⚑

Howard Sherman's US theatre round-up: July 10 by Howard Sherman

Ireland's Druid Theatre tackles Shakespeare at Lincoln Centre While the many cultural imports that illuminate the Lincoln Centre Festival each summer are

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on July 10, 2015☆⚑