2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Maybe it's walking under a Times Square marquee with his name emblazoned overhead. Maybe it's seeing a title memorialized on that distinctive Playbill cover. Maybe it's being asked for his a…
Confessions of a Nightingale spends time listening to Tennessee Williams escorts visitors through a rambling tour of his life. Actor Christopher Dreeson and director Jeffrey Bruce have worke…
There's a party going on at the Riverside Theatre where the jukebox is smokin'! The nostalgic revue Smokey Joe's Cafe celebrates the music of Leiber and Stoller, whose tunes influenced Ameri…
This may seem a backhanded compliment, but it is meant with awe : The most memorable aspect of The Wick Theatre's The Pirates of Penzance is you can understand the bloody words. The producti…
Put aside your expectations that the musical Freaky Friday is going to be yet another manipulative Disney raid on its popular film titles, designed primarily for those who fondly recall one …
From the trumpet blast opening the world premiere Havana Music Hall at Actors' Playhouse, the stage explodes with color and light and dancing and singing and, above all, that pulsing music, …
All too apropos for our bitterly divided time, Outré Theatre Company's intellectually stimulating production of Lucas Hnath's The Christians asks what happens when two sincerely held but di…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Indecent is precisely the kind of thrilling evening that glories in what theater can be " a unique art form that cannot be matched by anything on film, anything hangin…
Paula Vogel welcomes, even celebrates how imaginative directors and committed casts use her work as a starting blueprint for their own explorations. o she is pleased that this week the team …
It's a genuine compliment when a critic doesn't particularly look forward to a show based on past productions and recordings " and then reassesses his antipathy based on seeing a fresh new p…
GableStage's Admissions is one of the more uncomfortable evenings of theater that avowed liberals and proud progressives will sit through any time soon. It holds up an unsparing mirror that …
In Zoetic Stage's premiere Dracula, the vampire is a sexist pig (as are several men in the play). The protagonists are strong-willed proto-feminists. Together, they embody a society struggli…
It would be intriguing and accurate, but misleading to say that Havana Music Hall, the hopeful Broadway musical about Cuban artists before and after the Revolution, is the brainchild of 72-y…
The memorial celebration of Iris Acker will be held Monday at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the celebration starting at 7 p.m. Playwright, producer and …
Some South Florida theaters are scrapping some of what they plan to put on stage this season or next. Some are leaving support positions unfilled. Some plan smaller cast shows. Some have sid…
Lightning Bolt Productions,' Little Shop of Horrors delivers yet another merry recreation of one of the most amusing small musicals in the canon: an intentionally silly, unapologetically uns…
A thrilling cast and an impossibly talented young director from the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center mine all the raucous mirth and underlying blues in George C. Wolfe's stinging social…
Instead of attempting the impossible task for imitating Ol' Blue Eyes, MNM Theatre Company's My Way, A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, is a solid, polished, thoroughly entertaining stroll through…
News About Dramaworks' January festival of readings of works in development, Susan Danis stays at Florida Grand Opera, Infinite Abyss and Island City Stage rename their home Wilton Theater F…
It doesn't matter how beautifully these performers sing with strength and skill, no matter how tight the bands, no matter how much energy flows , if a musical is primarily a song cycle relia…
A "celebration' of the life of Iris Acker " the iconic actress, teacher, producer and theater booster through her television shows -- has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday October 15 at a lo…
She Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy given an inventive and enthusiastic production by Area Stage Company -- a show proudly described as "theater for nerds," or more accurately, for young…
Iris Acker -- the vivacious actress, teacher, author, dancer, artistic director, producer and groundbreaking union leader who helped transform South Florida theater " died Sunday night after…
Thinking Cap Theatre's Crooked superbly captures the fear, confusion and pain of being an adolescent " and the same fear, confusion and pain struggling to raise one. With vibrant performance…
Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it's a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it migh…
