586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Shakespeare and parks seem to go hand in hand, certainly in the US, where the once singular innovation of Joseph Papp's New
I dare say that very few people reading this column are aware that tomorrow, July 1, marks the celebration of Canada Day,
Deep anger generated by the theatre reviews of Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss is nothing new. But the scale of the reaction
Lots of digital ink, and not a little actual ink, has been used reporting and opining on the events that have surrounded
It wasn't a picket line last Thursday morning, but rather a demonstration, as Broadway casting directors and their supporters walked back and
Does anyone remember last summer's The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park? It opened with an entirely non-Shakespearean beauty pageant and talent show, led by a buffoonish figure costumed t…
For the past few weeks, the narrative about the four Tony-nominated plays was that they were all struggling at the box office
I imagine that I could be dropped into a theatre seat most anywhere in the world and, without a translator or supertitles,
They seem to come like clockwork, roughly every six months, the press releases announcing a new record on Broadway. They come twice
It has been, for much of the present decade, one of Broadway's longest-running stories, without ever actually reaching the stage. I refer
Admittedly in the theatre community, the month of May (and early June) is thought of primarily as awards season or, if your
One doesn't expect to hear the words "nudity" and "children's theatre" discussed in the same sentence. But there's been a lot of that juxtaposition going around up in Boston as a result of t…
It is not unusual to hear a theatre company announce that if it doesn't raise a certain amount of money by such-and-such
I do not typically find myself watching a show in a Broadway theatre at 2pm on a Tuesday, but I dare say
According to an old aphorism, "dog bites man" is not big news, however "man bites dog" is something to report. Consequently, in the arts world, "board of directors fires staff" may be of int…
When people talk about how theatre isn't really the same thing when it is translated on to television or film, they could
Last week and this current week mark a fairly rare moment on Broadway. Every available theatre " all 40 of them "
The shutting down of a high school play at East Newton High School in Granby, Missouri last week may have set a new low in bad timing for such incidents. The show was not canceled after cast…
The stories of arts critics losing their posts have made for a sad and continuing saga in recent years as both print and broadcast outlets
If you happen to have been giving any thought to producing Langston Hughes's 1935 play Mulatto at the Ames Center in Burnsville MN, save yourself some time and either move on to another p…
Despite its origin in a 1988 film from John Waters, the underground master of camp, shock and transgression, the story of Tracy Turnblad, as told in multiple iterations, has become wholly ma…
When The Play That Goes Wrong opens on Sunday, the entire cast will be making its Broadway debut. This same landmark was
I cannot claim that I was completely surprised. By the same token, I didn't know exactly what to expect. A press release first made me aware of Diva: Live From Hell, and I lingered on it …
Context is everything. If you ask the average parent whether, in the abstract, they want to hear a student, any student, saying the n-word from the stage of their local high school auditoriu…
It comes as no particular surprise that Donald Trump has made it known he'd like to eliminate the National Endowment for the
