2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Life is all about attitude and how you perceive what you encounter, whether it be a stack of garbage or a deadly disease, in Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer's life-affirming, funny and touch…
Time Step, the creative and original dance-centric revue at Broward Stage Door Theatre is a time travel tribute to tap dancing in all of its many guises.
At some workplaces, employees indulge in healthy rivalry, support each other professionally and personally and, sometimes, forge deep friendships that last long after the job has ended. That…
Produced competently, with flashes of brilliance, by New City Players at the Vanguard, Clybourne Park's expose of the evolving presentation of white privilege over generations has lost some …
The world premiere The Radicalization of Rolfe at Island City Stage implies a truly intriguing nesting of premises: starting with how Rolfe, the sweet messenger boy romancing Liesl in The So…
An emotion-choked audience leapt to their feet during Monday's 42nd annual Carbonell Awards ceremony, but it had nothing to do with the recognition of excellence in South Florida theater. Th…
The complete list of Carbonell Award winners, nominees and breakdown by theater and county for the 2017 performance year.
Edgar & Emily, the premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, is a fascinating and funny fantasia about the dead Edgar Allan Poe visiting Emily Dickinson late one night dragging his coffin behi…
Emily Dickinson is huddling in her bed when Edgar Allen Poe barges into her bedroom pulling his coffin behind him. This is even stranger than it sounds since Poe is believed to have died abo…
In Buyer & Cellar, struggling actor Alex More becomes an unlikely cast " from his boyfriend and a supercilious boss to celebrated Hollywood couple James Brolin and his wife, Barbra. If …
The Pigs Do Fly company, dedicated to work by and for people over 50 years old, examines women's issues during a day on the golf course in the full-length play The Ladies Foursome.
Tight choreography, outstanding leads, a solid supporting cast and a fluid band infuse Slow Burn Theatre's trip to Memphis. The rousing production hits the ground running in the opening scen…
It's fun -- and in the two hours of Outre Theatre Company's transportive production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, even somehow plausible"to believe that Mike Westrich always has been Hedwig…
The sound coming from the Arsht Center stage is almost unearthly and totally unexpected unless you've seen the opera Orfeo ed Euridice or heard the unique sound of a counter-tenor before. Th…
Riverside Theatre gathers its significant resources and sure-footed confidence to mount one of the greatest American musicals ever, Gypsy. Indeed, this is a big, brawny show steeped in legen…
Graced with a soaring pulsing score, leading actors with passionate voices and a wealth of evocative choreography, the Wick Theatre's Brigadoon lands as one of the company's most memorable a…
Dancing Lessons is punctuated with interpersonal strife, frustration, heartache and some very funny moments. But mostly Zoetic Stage's production is a warm quiet sustained smile for a warm q…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's nearly flawless production with a gloriously delivered score and nuanced script is a reminder that South Pacific is a contender as one of the most affecting and b…
Often critics start their reviews with some analysis of the life lessons that a theatrical work contains. Not this time. The deep inner meaning of Broward Stage Door's peppy perky production…
Thinking Cap's world premiere, Women In Assembly, is a satirical comedy credited to Aristophanes but transmuted into a bawdy irreverent satire about Greek women taking over government and re…
Kindertransport from Curtain Call Playhouse only uses the 1939 exodus of Jewish children from Germany as a starting point as it focuses on much more sophisticated questions about assimilatio…
It's likely that people involved with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming production of South Pacific know that cynics will question why mount yet one more production of this classic. But d…
Poking around dark mentalities syncs with Infinite Abyss Productions' gleeful affection for works about people on the edges of society. But its run of The Collector, while among its stronge…
Watching Mad Cat productions often feels less like consuming theater and more like eavesdropping on inside jokes. The arcane references,obscure titles, the inexplicable musical interludes an…
What the musical Once illustrates on the stage of Actors Playhouse is the unparalleled power of song to capture and then share the pure pain and pleasure of love.