586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
If you are a musical theatre fan in general, and a Rent fan in particular, and you're going to church in or around Tullahoma, Tennessee this Sunday, there's a chance you may not like a bitÂ…
A couple of decades ago, a hit Off-Broadway show at a subsidised theatre had two options when its run drew to an
Patti LuPone leads a theatre in Douglas Carter Beane's Shows for Days Douglas Carter Beane has written a steady string of witty
In his Theatre Addicts diary this week, Mates co-founder Mark Shenton took umbrage with The Sunday Times’ critic Christopher Hart’s review of American playwright Stephen Adly Gui…
"You can't draw sweet water from a foul well," critic Brooks Atkinson wrote of his initial reaction to the musical Pal Joey. I don't know whether Christopher Hart of The Sunday Times in Lond…
New adaptation of Moby Dick surfaces at Chicago's Lookingglass Given its oceanic setting and enormous title character, it's really quite remarkable how
Go-going Head Over Heels at Oregon Shakespeare Festival You say you were just thinking that we don't see enough revivals of Sir
If you're like me, someone deeply committed to the arts " in practice, in education, in media coverage, in every aspect of life " you've probably had the same fantasy I've had over the years…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time led a parade of 11 British winners at the 69th annual Tony Awards,
'You give us $150 dollars and we'll review your show.' It sounds like a bizarro-world version of 'You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world.'
But that is, boiled to its essence, what…
Perpetual technical rehearsal in Anne Washburn's 10 Out of 12 at Soho Rep Those who work in the theatre know how arduous
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, School of Rock, set to open in the autumn, will be showcased this week as part of
The Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the big winner at this year's Drama Desk
Simon Stephens' Heisenberg premieres at Manhattan Theatre Club While playwright Simon Stephens is British and his new play begins in a UK
Broadway broke all-time attendance and revenue records in the recently completed 2014/15 season, selling 13.1 million tickets with gross sales of $1.37
I can't compete with the literally hundreds of online tributes that are proliferating in advance of David Letterman's final show this evening, except to say that I've been watching him since…
The story practically writes itself: fundraiser for anti-censorship group gets censored. Ironic headline, attention-grabbing tweet, you name it. That's exactly what has happened in the past …
Jim Parsons plays God on Broadway While starring on television's top sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, may be bringing Jim Parsons untold
One of the great ironies of the word "Broadway" " certainly one of New York's, if not America's, best-known brands " is
The Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time led the winners of the 2015 Outer Critics Circle
Cush Jumbo's one-woman show Josephine and I has won the outstanding solo show prize at this year's Lucille Lortel Awards in New
World Premiere Fugard Play at Signature Theatre In the earliest decades of Athol Fugard's playwriting career, his plays debuted at South Africa's
"You know, if we all agreed to stop putting critics' quotes in our ads, they'd lose their power over us, and we could just sell our shows on what we think is best about them."
I will conf…
British designer Bob Crowley has received a special citation at this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle awards. Crowley, who last month
When it was all said and done, three student-written short plays, part of an evening of playlets, monologues and songs, went on as scheduled at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, Colorado…
