2,660 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Travelling in the national tour means moving to a different hotel in a different city nearly every week, not always sure what city that is, maintaining relationships with loved ones from afa…
The Helen in Helen on Wheels is Helen Wheeler, a spirited, allegedly 70-something widow who speaks her mind and challenges anyone who crosses her as she continues to mourn her husband. But H…
Oh, those mean girls. If you were unlucky to encounter them, they made your high school days unbearable, humiliated you so you felt inferior and tried to dictate who your friends were. They …
Gay men, characterized as deviants in 1920s New York City, populate prolific playwright Ronnie Larsen's new musical, Come Out! Come Out! at the Wilton Theatre Factory. Come Out! Come Out! is…
Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama's world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World " not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong's famous nu…
Home is the place where they have to take you in, to paraphrase Robert Frost. It's also the place where every family dynamic plays out " love, resentment, growing pains, conflict, chaos, wor…
With the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to "come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what…
While the Broadway Palm production of Beauty and the Beast at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center will elicit giggles from the kids, this local edition is a surprisingly satisfying evening eve…
Does it ever get boring being in the room where it happens?
No, it does not, as illustrated from the moment Aaron Burr begins recounting the story of this lad from the Caribbean who becam…
Something unexpected is on Riverside Theatre's mainstage: A straight play. That's right, no big box office-guaranteed lavish, toe-tapping musical Instead, patrons are getting well-developed…
Thinking Cap Theatre's stunning production of Beckett's Happy Days, offers an unmitigated triumph of a performance by Karen Stephens expertly molded by Nicole Stodard, but to say this absurd…
Another round of 2020-2021 season announcements has arrived with some promising titles -- this time from Primal Forces and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre " plus a headline-making offering from Br…
In 2016, the interactive gay wedding theatrical experience Diego & Drew Say I Do had a successful run at the Broward Center. Now it's back for a second go 'round. It has grown up just a …
There's something irresistibly intriguing when a whimsical fairy tale is invoked to teach life lessons to adults. Theatre Lab's The Glass Piano may have a befuddled king, a savvy servant and…
Don't say we didn't warn you: If you purchase a ticket to the fourth and latest iteration of Miami Motel Stories, you will be put to work. You may have to repair a costume, or apply an actor…
Plenty of laughter, and quite a few tears, punctuate the dramatic comedy, or comic drama, if you prefer in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloa…
Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortuna…
A war of words smoothly flows between two articulate, bright people with immensely opposing views on nearly every subject in British playwright David Hare's drama Skylight, receiving a perce…
Sometimes the joint is jumpin' in M Ensemble Company's Ain't Misbehavin', sometime things are sluggish; sometimes you can savor the brilliant lyrics coming from a talented quintet , sometime…
Skylight might seem just an intriguing play focusing on an older widower trying to rekindle a relationship with a younger woman with whom he was having an affair with while he was married. B…
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Kravis Center through Feb. 16, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But this tou…
The first things to know about Slow Burn Theater Company's musical Groundhog Day is (a) do not go expecting to see the movie and (b) do not go expecting Bill Murray. The third thing is that …
You are invited to a wedding this month, well, a theater experience recreating a wedding. It may seem at first blush not your everyday wedding with the title Diego & Drew Say I Do, but a…
Face it. Resistance is useless when it comes to enjoying The 39 Steps. Any theater worth its comic salt will plunge head long into this madcap Hitchcock parody -- Vero Beach's Riverside Thea…
Across the face and embedded in the voice of the hero-narrator we can see a drive he can't ignore, the profound costs and the unequaled joy of creating art in West Boca Theatre Company's mo…
