2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Outré Theatre Company's edition of Tommy demonstrates how skill, imagination and pure guts can triumph over the most modest of means. Its greatest virtue in bringing the classic rock opera…
With humor, poignancy and insight, Dietz portrays just such a patchwork invisible to its residents in his new play This Random World at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Flor…
Audiences can marvel at the artistry from actor Rob Donohoe and director Lynnette Barkley in Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Tru, but the one-man bio-play about Truman Capote never quit…
South Florida singers, especially theater actors, often seek a place to try out new material, a haunt where they can keep their chops honed, a venue to show off a range their colleagues migh…
A top drawer cast marks an unusually but intentionally bare bones production of Dan Clancy's new play Middletown tracking the arc of four lives.
A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse " a plan which preserves some of…
Led by the talents of Matt Loehr, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Me and My Girl is the precisely the antidote for the seasonal angst " a couple of hours of escapist entertainment. The cast is c…
Sitting at a table in Palm Beach Dramawork's rehearsal hall, Rob Donohoe doesn't look or sound a thing like Truman Capote. He's taller, his hair is brown and full and his voice is a warm bar…
Sister Act is not a great musical, not even a good one, but the Wick Theatre's resurrection is so engaging, so energetic, so much pure fun that it will convert you and make you glad you boug…
78-year-old Delray Beach actor Alan Scharf is loving the featured role in the national tour of Dirty Dancing.
"Here be monsters" repeatedly warns one of the two weird sisters at the center of the bizarre Gothic horror play Cuddles at Theatre at Arts Garage, but the creatures to beware are much diffe…
God is just like you and me " genial, well-meaning, chatty and, while omniscient and omnipotent, also flawed enough to make universe-shaking mistakes. At least that's the God that actor Tom …
Sometimes stage theatricality more effectively thrusts you inside the head of someone completely alien to your own experience than the hyper-reality of a film is able to convey. A prime exam…
When Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the context o…
Oddly, for all the technical artistry that the assembled talents are displaying in Florida Grand Opera's thoroughly satisfying 10th run at Georges Bizet's deathlessly popular masterwork, it …
Thomas Wolfe warned that you can't go home again, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's revival of its 2012 production of Avenue Q is a welcome and joyful return to the neighborhood and the ol' ga…
Sweet Charity is a fundamentally flawed showcase that virtually no one has ever pulled off satisfyingly, but Broward Stage Door director Michael Leeds makes a solid enough stab at it that a …
Charlie Cinnamon, the beloved dean of South Florida publicity agents whose work over a half-century helped transform the region's cultural landscape and national profile, died Thursday morni…
In Riverside Theatre's polished production of the musical revue Ring of Fire, four pitch perfect voices and a host of skilled musicians bring to life the legacy of America's greatest home-gr…
The Audience, the West End sensation turned Tony winner , conjures 10 meetings, between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. The play's regional premiere at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, i…
For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth has been beloved, despised, served as a role model for some and a target for others, but always been the somewhat removed iconic image of unflappable composure …
There's something thrilling about seeing a world premiere play unfold. And when the playwright is one of South Florida's great hopes to get an original play to the Great White Way, there's e…
Deborah Zoe Laufer's world premiere The Three Sisters of Weekhawken is, indeed, funny in its daffy way, but this imaginative mashup of Chekhov's meditation on yearning refracted through Beck…
Tension is at the heart and soul of Thinking Cap Theatre's Mud, a three-hander by Maria Irene Fornes, now at The Vanguard in Fort Lauderdale.
Director Nicole Stodard puts her stamp on the …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre on Monday publically kicked off a five-year campaign to raise $25 million to $30 million for a massive construction expansion to enable it to expand its offerings. …
