2,704 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
If you think time machines are only found in science fiction, visit All Night Strut at Broward Stage Door and watch an audience of Greatest Generation grads be transported back 65 years to t…
Joy and uncertainty imbued the 36th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday night, reflecting a period marked by the greatest concentration of theatrical excellence in recent memory, yet also the …
A play championed by New Theatre, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, received a citation this weekend in the American Theatre Critics Association 's new plays competition. A. Rey Pamatmat'…
Michael McKeever's Moscow's in its world premiere by Zoetic Stage in the Adrienne Arsht Center's intimate Carnival Studio Theater is rich in so many ways with deep characters, dialogue that …
By choosing its own schedule, the Kravis Center has several titles in its 2012-2013 slate of musicals on national tours that you won't see at the Broward Center or the Arsht Center as the so…
In this edition, we visit with Stuart Meltzer who is currently fine-tuning the world premiere production of Michael McKeever's Moscow which opens Friday at the Arsht Center. Meltzer is both …
There's a distinctly younger, even hipper bent to the offerings for the Broadway Across America 2012-2013 season announced for the Adrienne Arsht Center -- plus some old, old reliables. The …
Hello Jerry Jerry Herman, the composer-lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, dropped in on last Friday's performance of his best-known work at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Herman, a University of Miami g…
Comedy. Tragedy. Absurdist farce. Subtle satire. Family drama. Sociological tract about race relations. Juan C. Sanchez's world premiere Property Line at New Theatre encompasses all these an…
Of course, any musical revue of Woody Guthrie's work must end with the anthem "This Land Is Your Land." What the musical revue Woody Sez at Arts Garage does is put that expression of patriot…
The George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, the most prestigious honor given by the Carbonell Awards, will be presented April 2 to producer Jay H. Harris.
Like Kane's Blasted at GableStage in 2010 and 4:48 Psychosis at Naked Stage in 2008, Cleansed defies reactions that involve verbs such as "liked" or even "appreciated." Even more than those …
Anyone who doubts the quality of South Florida should buy a ticket (as should everyone else who loves theater) to the 36th Annual Carbonell Awards set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 in the Am…
On the surface, David Michael Sirois' Off Center of Nowhere is what would result if the Neil Simon of the 1970s wrote a rollicking comedy about teen pregnancy, abortion and racism, laced wit…
There's a brand new musical comedy you've never seen before playing at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. It's something called Hello, Dolly! and if you think you've seen it before, we'll argue with…
Palm Beach Dramawork's affinities for Edward Albee and Irish-themed plays are reflected in its upcoming 13th season for 2012-2013.
Director Marcia Milgrom Dodge and actress Vicki Lewis face that old psychology experiment: Imagine there's an elephant in the room. Now ignore the elephant in the room. In their case, the el…
It's grossly unfair to expect an actor to impersonate an icon who remains vivid in the audience's memory, but watching the most recent incarnation of Rupert Holmes' biographical Say Goodnigh…
Twyla Tharp's surrogates in Come Fly Away effortlessly swirl and slide across the stage like you think you do in your dreams " and to sound of Sinatra yet, crooning "The Way You Look Tonight…
Frequent theatergoers approach productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with fatigue. So it's heartening to report that the latest edition by Actors Playhouse is a playful…
Torture, vengeance and morality take center stage in Death and the Maiden, a suspenseful thriller now receiving a riveting production at Mosaic Theatre in Plantation.
The cruel irony is that The Unseen, the last show before The Promethean Theatre closes its doors forever, is one of the finest productions that the company has mounted in its eight-year hist…
Playwright Djanet Sears has crafted an intriguing contemplation of the intersection of the macro issue of race on the micro-dynamics of an individual marriage in Harlem Duet. But Sears' insi…
Shorts Stuff Want a peek at some of the 10-minute plays under consideration for City Theatre's annual Summer Shorts program? Joseph Adler is hosting a reading at 7 p.m. Monday of some of the…
With its flights of imagination " literally, since the hero imagines himself soaring -- Billy Elliot, The Musical is a triumph of theatrical staging. If this road tour at the Broward Center…