Howard Sherman: How US prisons are providing creative freedom through theatre

SUBSCRIBE

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Robots and AI are taking centre stage in New York right now – actually, theatre is where they originated

US shows are resonating very differently after Trump’s election win

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Opinion by Howard Sherman

Musical theatre lost so much talent to AIDS, but we must remember how it also helped change perceptions

Opinion by Richard Jordan

Memorial service remembering Gavin Creel to be streamed live in US and UK

News by Georgia Luckhurst

Wicked big-screen adaptation enjoys record-breaking opening

News by Katie Chambers

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Beyond ticket prices: the battles and benefits of regional theatre

Musical theatre lost so much talent to AIDS, but we must remember how it also helped change perceptions

We should be concerned that 20 of the top 35 producing theatres are dark in November

Shakespeare has always engaged with those on society’s margins – it still does

Wicked is casting a spell over film audiences – what's the secret to its screen success?

Everyone is welcome at the theatre, unless...

The National Theatre’s cut to its school touring scheme is damaging to theatre – and children

Call me Scrooge, but this over-told tale is so rarely done well

Funded venues are struggling. It’s why fringe theatre is so important

Two stars of technical theatre have left us too soon, but they will keep on inspiring me

The NT’s Coriolanus was diversity at its best – yet others are still stuck in the past

Recommended for you

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Opinion by Howard Sherman

Musical theatre lost so much talent to AIDS, but we must remember how it also helped change perceptions

Opinion by Richard Jordan

Memorial service remembering Gavin Creel to be streamed live in US and UK

News by Georgia Luckhurst

Wicked big-screen adaptation enjoys record-breaking opening

News by Katie Chambers

Howard Sherman is a New York based arts administrator, writer and advocate. He is director of the Baruch Performing Arts Center, founder of the Arts Integrity Initiative and author of Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century. Howard has been The Stage’s US columnist since 2012. Read his latest column every other Friday.

More from this author

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Robots and AI are taking centre stage in New York right now – actually, theatre is where they originated

US shows are resonating very differently after Trump’s election win

Opinion

Latest
Most Read

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Beyond ticket prices: the battles and benefits of regional theatre

Musical theatre lost so much talent to AIDS, but we must remember how it also helped change perceptions

We should be concerned that 20 of the top 35 producing theatres are dark in November

Shakespeare has always engaged with those on society’s margins – it still does

Wicked is casting a spell over film audiences – what's the secret to its screen success?

Fallow years: could theatre learn something from Glastonbury?

I’m back where I began, but as a tutor not a student – it’s inspiring... and petrifying

Wicked is casting a spell over film audiences – what's the secret to its screen success?

We should be concerned that 20 of the top 35 producing theatres are dark in November

Did Tammy Faye lose its sense of proportion on the way to Broadway?

Beyond ticket prices: the battles and benefits of regional theatre

Advice

The Stage/Bridge Theatre Training Company scholarship winners 2024

by Paul Vale

Sofia Jones: 'You can always learn from those around you'

by John Byrne

Sadie Pearson: 'The more work you put on, the more opportunities come your way'

by John Byrne

Alexa Morden: ‘I’d love to demolish the hierarchy of power that exists in the industry'

by John Byrne

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical review

Musical adaptation of novelist Rick Riordan’s bestselling spin on Greek mythology is great fun

Tobias Menzies and Juliet Stevenson join walkout in support of Palestine

Actors including Juliet Stevenson, Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy joined more than 100 culture workers who walked out of their workplaces to protest outside the National Theatre about arts organisations’ ‘silence’ about the humanitarian crisis in Palestine

Jobs

Deputy Head of Electrics

City: London Salary: £37,313 per...

How US prison programmes are providing creative outlet through theatre

Support The Stage by registering or subscribing

More from this Author

More on this topic

Opinion

Recommended for you

More from this author

Opinion

Advice

More on this topic

Advice

Recommended for you

Most Read

Your subscription helps ensure our journalism can continue

Newspaper

More

Info

Awards

Legal

Digital