586 stories by "Howard Sherman"
Anton Chekhov has been cursing up a storm this summer in New York. Sort of. There are currently two " fairly swearey
The award-winning playwright and director has scored a series of Broadway transfers from his Chicago theatre. He tells Howard Sherman why community-generated
Perched somewhere between elaborate board game, immersive theatre and Halloween haunted house, the escape room phenomenon seems to fly under the radar
A simple list of credits for Hal Prince says so much. Producer or co-producer of, among others, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees,
You could call it Broadway's week of disruptions, although it wasn't unique to Broadway or even necessarily theatre. It began on Saturday,
As the daughter of famous performers, Kate Burton has forged her own distinguished stage career, known for playing Chekhov and Shakespeare as
The deranged eccentricity of the premise demanded attention: a stage version of the 1997 action film Face/Off, starring Nic Cage and John
The arts community prides itself on being progressive. The time has come for it to move forward yet again; the specific topic
These movies are too long. These movies are too short. These movies are just right. This theme, echoing the assessments of fussy
Imagine if the long-running NT Connections programme was generating new plays for the secondary school market all about comic book heroes. While
As head of New York Theatre Workshop, James Nicola has originated hits from Rent to Hadestown. He tells Howard Sherman about working
Just before the Tony Awards, an academic paper found 15 minutes of fame. In it, academics from New York University and Lund
When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced, in the autumn of 2015, that it would be commissioning translations of all of Shakespeare's plays,
The 448-page report by US special prosecutor Robert Mueller may, at points, make for dramatic reading. It is not, however, a dramatic
If you have a desire to see Magic Mike Live, your options are London, Las Vegas and, come November, Berlin. If you
In his essential 1983 book on the movie industry, William Goldman (screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and The Princess Bride) summed up the
Popular entertainment isn't necessarily the place to go and study history, but it can prompt audience members to learn more about the
The Tony-winning composer of Broadway hit The Band's Visit is no stranger to musical adaptations of films, but had misgivings about taking
A few days after the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations for 2018-19 is perhaps too early to start reading tea leaves
There are any number of reasons to read the new cover story from Wired magazine, 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside of
The communication announcing the cancelation of a production of the musical The 25thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hyattsville Middle School in Maryland could not have been more terse.…
The pop-up theatre performance is not, at this point, a novelty. But in the line of surprising theatrical performances in public places,
New work may not be as rare as it once was in US regional theatre, but one festival that has championed the
"Doors open for women and people of color at top ranks of American theater." For many, this New York Times headline from
Starring as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on Broadway, the award-winning actor talks to Howard Sherman about playing her childhood dream
