Another Day's Begun

Howard Sherman is a theatre administrator, writer, and advocate. He has been executive director of the American Theatre Wing and the O'Neill Theater Center, managing director of Geva Theatre, general manager of Goodspeed Musicals and public relations director of Hartford Stage. He has also interim director of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. Since 2012, he has been the US columnist for The Stage newspaper in London, and in 2018 was named Contributing Editor of Stage Directions magazine. His writing has appeared in a number of publications including Slate, The New York Times, the Guardian, and American Theatre Magazine. He was cited as one of the Top 40 Free Speech Defenders in 2014 by the National Coalition Against Censorship and received the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund's “Defender” Award in 2015; he frequently consults, writes and speaks on issues of censorship in both academic and professional theatre.

• 1. Introduction: The Name of this Book is Another Day’s Begun2. Building Grover’s Corners3. Expanding Grover’s Corners4. The David Cromer productions5. Westport Country Playhouse and Broadway6. Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre7. Montgomery County Emergency Services8. Theatre Baton Rouge and Louisiana State University9. Lookingglass Theatre10. Intermission: The Church of Grover’s Corners11. Theatrical Outfit12. Miami New Drama13. Oregon Shakespeare Festival14. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse15. Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park16. Sing Sing Correctional Facility17. Epilogue: 11 O’Clock in Grover’s Cornersi. Notes and Sourcesii. Thanks and acknowledgments

An important book consisting of oral histories of 12 productions of the play that have opened since 2012 and prefaced by a richly detailed 34-page overview of the original Broadway production of the play’s subsequent history up to the turn of this century.