2,704 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
The intersection, overlap and conflict of love and sex " but above all how they affect relationships -- form the basis of Theatre at Arts Garage's uneven but intriguing entry appropriately e…
Back in 1977 when 13-year-old Andrea McArdle's name exploded across the country, the moniker Broadway Baby recognized the talent powering her performance as Annie singing the iconic anthem …
The Night of the Iguana is the "other" Tennessee Williams play, the one most theatergoers have heard of, maybe even seen the Richard Burton-John Huston film, but likely have never gotten aro…
Effectively cloaked in high-tech flourishes from pounding music to a rock concert-worthy light show plus classic theatrical accoutrements like dancers, The Illusionists gathers seven inventi…
A different season advance: Quietly, oh so quietly, the 2016-2017 theater season in South Florida is shaping up to be as notable for tidal growth, contraction, ebb and flow as it is for the …
These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don't care. …
No one knows what effect Matthew will have on performances this weekend or even next weekend because of damage to buildings, power outages, road passability and the status of cast and crew m…
Christian Thompson saw his first Broadway musical at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts when he was seven years old. A national touring company of Cats was what hooked him on the mus…
Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent pl…
Why Not? With Richard Nixon is perhaps Mad Cat Theatre Company's most Mad Catty show ever, a production for company insiders that is esoteric enough to reference another Mad Cat show in its …
When the young Boca Raton company Marquee Theater's production nails key moments of the indestructible Fiddler on the Roof, it's exhilirating and entertaining on its own merits; when it falt…
Antonio and Katherine Amadeo, who separately and together championed cutting edge work through their Naked Stage company and who helped unite the local artistic community with their 24-Hour …
The level of anger, helplessness and sorrow rises inexorably along with the death toll like flood waters from a storm surge in Outré Theatre Company's shattering production of The Normal He…
Hats off, Evening Star Productions, for insider's theater that is satirically spot on in the comedy Gutenberg! The Musical.
What do Cabaret, Chicago, Fun Home, Almost Maine and Angels in America have in common? Somebody somewhere has banned their production at some point. To push back, Zoetic Stage and the Dramat…
Circle Mirror Transformation is finally receiving its professional regional premiere by the intrepid Area Stage Co., and the disarmingly funny production is a ravishing success for Baker pur…
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney is not easy theater, by any means, but not one that Thinking Cap would ever shy away from. Their tagline is "theat…
Larry Parr's Invasion of Privacy from Pigs Do Fly Productions, based on a lawsuit against Florida's beloved Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, lays intriguing thought-provoking ideas on the table, bu…
The Broward Stage Door Theatre production of the 1970 musical The Rothschilds, about the famed family's rise from the German ghetto to become on the wealthiest families in the world, is a re…
This year, Sept. 10 might just mark the unofficial kickoff to the season, at least for Miamians when the Arsht will present its second-annual ARTSLAUNCH2016, a festive daylong confab at all …
We've written a paragraph like this only two or three times: Stop what you are doing. Stop reading this review. Go to the phone or online and order tickets right now for Ground Up & Ris…
The easiest way to grasp a sense of the Festival, its styles and ethos is to recount and review the individual productions we saw during a trip last month. Hidden within may be insights that…
By Bill Hirschman The dictionary translates the Latin phrase "sui generis" as "constituting a class of its own," but more commonly it's used to mean "not like anything else," often with the …
Juliet Among the Changelings, the inaugural full-length production from Lost Girls Theatre, succeeds most if not all of the time in establishing and staying in that difficult groove of fanta…
Andrews Living Arts makes a valiant effort to conquer the challenging Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion! but it proves more than they can handle.
