586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Seen any good productions of David Adjmi's play 3C lately?
Sorry, that's a trick question with a self-evident answer: of course you haven't. That's because in the two and a half…
When I first started going to theatre in my teens, I loved attending post-performance discussions and special seminars and panels about plays. They were my education, my chance to learn from…
Though she made her film debut at age 12 and her Broadway debut at 14, Cynthia Nixon " perhaps best known as Miranda on the TV series Sex and the City " is making her directing debut with Jo…
There were, in my estimation, many interesting people at the first performance of Almost, Maine in Hickory NC this past Thursday night.
To begin with, there was the author, John Cariani, …
"I hope that The Vagina Monologues is a point of departure " it's not a panacea, it's not the only play, it's not the definitive play. It's a play, it's an offering."
Those are the words …
One of the great pleasures of a long holiday period, with one's office is closed for an extended time, is the freedom to go exploring, be it in life or online, guilt-free (or at least rel…
Are these my "best" blog posts of 2014? I couldn't say. All I know is that they're my most read, from a year in which page views on my site more than doubled over 2013.
Certainly 2014 was…
I have never attended Theater J in Washington DC. I have become increasingly aware of its work as controversy over that work has risen in recent years, while at the same time I have become a…
Many of you already know the story of the Maiden High School production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, shuttered by school officials this fall due to the content of a single scene in wh…
I'm not given to making predictions about what will happen in the weeks and months to come, but as this is my final regular column of 2014, I'm willing to look into my crystal ball…
As the Sony hacking case has played out over the past several weeks, it's a story that has been relegated mostly to the business pages and, simultaneously, the gossip industry. With no one e…
21 months after it began performances on Broadway, the RSC-birthed musical Matilda announced last week that it has recouped its initial investment. The show was reportedly capitalized at $16…
In a week when flaws in Rolling Stone's reporting of a culture of rape on the University of Virginia campus created national headlines, the lapses of a single cultural reporter at the Wall S…
Not to dash anyone's dreams, but I think it's fair to say that the majority of the hundreds of thousands of students who participate in high school theatre annually will not go on to profess…
To say that Newman University's production of the musical Legally Blonde was performed with its book and lyrics intact this past Saturday and Sunday would seem to be a wholly unremarkable ev…
As prestige movies open pell-mell in the next few weeks, and Oscar campaigns already underway blaze into full public awareness, one of the contenders will surely be The Imitation Game, starr…
Howard Sherman's fortnightly dispatch from Broadway is your essential catch-up guide to all the latest news, rumours and castings on the other side of the Atlantic. In this edition, Glenn Cl…
A couple of years ago, in conversation with a childhood friend on Facebook, we began recalling the hours spent in my basement listening to the early comedy records of Bill Cosby. Suddenly, a…
When the news hit on Thursday, it flew around the New York theatre community as quickly as the unexpected closing of a Broadway show. The Cafe Edison on 47th Street is a fixture, one that…
In the song "The Book Report" from the musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt struggles to complete her homework assignment: 100 words on Peter Rabbit. Falling short, she co…
Earlier this month, the administration at Maiden High School in Maiden, North Carolina tried to put a stop to the student production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine. With permission slips in…
This week, news travels across the Atlantic that there are high-level shake-ups at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, Zhivago sets his sights on Broadway at last and we find out the sad reason w…
As headlines go, "A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created" embodies what many of us were taught in school about the well-made essay: tell peop…
Aside from being the month of copious pumpkin flavored foodstuffs, October also brings two perennial theatrical top ten lists that are worthy of note: American Theatre magazine's list of the…
A couple of weeks ago, yet another high school play was canceled over its content, this time at Santiago High School in Corona, California. Unlike the cases we often hear about, there was no…
