2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
It's not that it's impossible to mess up the musical Annie, but when you have a reliable troupe of talented hands like those connected to the current Wick Theatre production, you are guarant…
The ground-breaking record-breaking Tony-winning Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton is expected to attract unprecedented numbers of fans and newcomers when the national tour arrives at the Br…
How do you get a younger demographic to go see a play? Well, if it isn't Hamilton, it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to get those, let's say, under the age of 40-somethings to a live th…
Angie Radosh's face, not to mention her body language, provides an unimpeded view deep into the soul of a writer battling an inevitable descent into the spiral of Alzheimer's disease in Prim…
The emotional cauterizing of an already withdrawn teenager by a family dynamic of furious fights and fierce sibling rivalry forms the core of Tammy Ryan's Tar Beach, receiving a sensitive ex…
When a theater produces Death of a Salesman , it's not unknown territory. The director can adopt, adapt or depart from what has been done before. But when it's a world premiere such as Palm …
It's unfair to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Beauty and the Beast -- which is as thoroughly charming on its own merits as you could ask -- but understandable that the focus is diverted to its …
Usually in "fish out of water" comedies, the fish are surprised to find themselves out of the water and spend most of the evening trying to get back to familiar aquatic climes. But in the hi…
For those convinced that theater has no future among pre-Millenials, you should have been with us a few weeks ago when we made a belated visit to a Sunday matinee of the musical version of t…
It can be argued whether Anna Ziegler's Actually is a perfect piece of art, but it's hard to argue that the dizzyingly thought-filled drama at GableStage has captured the angst and conflict …
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our region…
By Bill Hirschman When the musical Beauty and the Beast works, theater magic flows from the stage. But it's been done so often " a long run on Broadway, multiple national tours, the original…
By Bill Hirschman There's not much in life that you can say this about, but the national tour of Hello, Dolly! is everything you hope it will be. For anyone under the age of 50 who wonders i…
If you hire strong voices as they did in MNM Theatre Company's production, the venerable musical Grease cannot help but be entertaining with its elbow-nudging pastiche of faux late '50s-earl…
When a script is as strong as Michael McKeever's Carbonell-winning Daniel's Husband and begins to develop legs beyond its local premiere, one pleasure seeing it produced elsewhere is noticin…
If you are or have been the caregiver to a senior suffering with dementia, delusions and/or Alzheimer's disease, the revival of The Waverly Gallery is a pain-riven reminder of the mutual ago…
Jonathan Tolins' satirical Buyer & Cellar provides a steady supply of giggles and guffaws in this tale about an actor hired by Barbra Streisand to staff in shops that she built in the b…
Slow Burn Theatre hembraces this glam/grunge rock musical headlined by a protagonist who suffered a botched sex-change operation. It's an in-your-face raunchy celebration of alternative se…
"Amazing" is a word you don't read in too many theater reviews. So keeping in mind that it's well-considered use here requires a lot of contextual "yets" and "buts," King Kong is amazing, bo…
Peter Wayne Galman in Thinking Cap Theatre's production is a likeable Lear. He's also narcissistic, ego-centric, driven, demanding, confused, playful and timeless. It helps that Galman deli…
Florida Grand Opera's presentation of La bohème is authentically true to Puccini's original right down to the pink bonnet. Besides an impressive visual production, this would still stand be…
The pre-opening publicity of Christopher Demos-Brown's racially-charged play on Broadway, American Son, has focused on its inescapable resonance with the tumultuous zeitgeist " a virtue cham…
The perennial tear-jerking Steel Magnolias, now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre ought to work, but doesn't succeed this time.. But those objectivity. Those seeking theater that provokes or stim…
The insightful examination in the play One Night in Miami from Miami New Drama depicts four different approaches used by African-American icons -- Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and the ch…
Thirty individuals and organizations will receive the South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards this December, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence, the organization announ…
