The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we'll run a column like this one, containing several items. If…
Actors are accustomed to carving out the marrow of their lives to provide the psychic building blocks of a performance. But for Deborah L. Sherman, her role as a bi-polar housewife in Side E…
As Bees in Honey Drown, the first Rising Action production under the leadership of new producing director Andy Rogow, is a few cuts above the company's typical fare, but is not without its o…
A new book serves a sort of tourist guide through the real locations in Pittsburgh that correlate to the scenes in August Wilson's plays.
Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge…
Amy McKenna and Andrew Wind open Friday in As Bees In Honey Drown at Rising Action this weekend / Photo by Sahid Aranud-Pabon By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping…
By Bill Hirschman The first production of the new Caldwell 2 @ Mizner tentatively set to open a three-week run on Thursday has been cancelled, Clive Cholerton, artistic director of the Caldw…
By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping that its sly moniker will add a triple-entendre of meaning, that of a phoenix rising from, if not ashes, then a troubled past…
By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Broth…
New Theatre is being evicted in mid-December from its Coral Gables home and is hunting for a new home in Miami-Dade County to continue operating indefinitely. The theater was notified "about…
The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at…
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals . In this edition, we find …
We've just received this letter from  Adolfo Henriques, chair of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, trying to drum up opposition to proposed budget cuts in Miami-Dade's arts …
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals who may or may not be telling us…
Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He's returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the …
The Andrews Living Arts Studio deserves credit for attempting the epic masterpiece Angels In America, Part 1: Millenium Approaches. Unfortunately, the laudable desire to conquer mountains do…
Sipiwe Moyo is a skilled enough actress that being an African American woman became nearly irrelevant to her playing the title role in New Theatre's production of Henry V. Despite a long lis…
Six Years at the Caldwell Theatre works quite well moment-to-moment, but overall it feels amorphous and, ultimately, not satisfying. It lives in that purgatory where a show has much to recom…
By Bill Hirschman When the callow king rouses the troops before the Battle of Agincourt with the St. Crispin's Day speech in New Theatre's Henry V on opening night Saturday, audiences will n…
Audience members who aren't put off by foul language, frequent blood spatters, gross-out moments such as eating dead bodies, extreme irreverence in the religious sense, sophomoric humor, che…
so my grandmother is a return to Mad Cat's idiosyncratic fantasias such as Shepherd's Pie and Helluva Halloween. Like them, it's messy, undisciplined, even self-indulgent in its determinatio…
By Bill Hirschman We believe in the future of theater, especially South Florida theater. This website is an expression of that faith. Certainly, the demise of Florida Stage infected all of u…
Pessimists' jaws dropped this month when the Caldwell Theatre Company, struggling to whittle away at a hefty mortgage, announced that it was opening Caldwell 2@Mizner.Beginning next month, t…
The Caldwell Theatre will host TV and film star Ed Asner when he brings the national tour of his one-man show’FDR to Florida for seven performances June 1-5. The production depicts Fra…
A key line in Equus, Peter Shaffer's play about a troubled teenager who blinds horses, is 'The extremity is the point.' But that seems lost on the Andrews Living Arts Studio production that …