How do I become happy? Advice from a professional fool
Stanley Allan Sherman, who makes leather masks for the stage, at his studio, which has also been his home since the 1970s, in New York, July 5, 2021. Sherman is an Orthodox Jew, a professional clown, a sometime playwright and director, but mainly one of the small army of niche artisans who make New Yorks theater world the anything-is-possible place it is. James Estrin/The New York Times.
by John Leland
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Everyone has a Sept. 11 story. The pages of Stanley Allan Shermans, a one-man show called September, sat propped on a music stand in his apartment the other day, amid a room full of leather masks. Something about the text was vexing him. Ive got to find a way to make it funny, he said.
How Do I Become Happy? Advice From a Professional Fool nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.