2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Fine talent, stirring music and Slow Burn Theatre's enthusiasm elevate the musical Violet, but the material has consistent void somewhere deep down in this musical's emotional investment.
GableStage has produced a version Terrrence McNally's satire about theater, It's Only A Play, that is funnier and has far more heart than the Broadway edition.
Florida Grand Opera's infrequently mounted Norma, a marathon challenge for sopranos, is a superbly executed triumph that melds technical mastery and gut-wrenching emotion.
The scruffy damaged denizens of New Orleans' underclass depicted in the musical The Journey: The Story of Your Life really only have one dimension and the subtlety of a freight train, but, g…
Ronald Harwood's script and Chicken Coop Theatre's production of Taking Sides supposedly even-handed look at art and politics isn't very subtle for most of the play, but it does have two sol…
Island City Stage gives the first full performance of Michael Leeds' Who Killed Joan Crawford, a comedy mystery about male friends invited to a birthday party dressed as Crawford characters.…
News items about Palm Beach Dramaworks, Barry University, City Theatre, FAU's Theatre Project
Miami New Drama's musical The Golem of Havana melds warm comedy and profound tragedy in an intriguing, sometimes moving, often thought-provoking evening. It encompasses the Holocaust, the Ca…
Area Stage Company delivers an unsettling, thought-provoking evening with its musings on the implication of an unbridled Internet of the future in The Nether.
Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn is rooted in an wry examination of post-feminism. But Zoetic Stage's finely wrought comedy-drama goes much farther and deeper in examining the comple…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's pull-out-the-stops revival is about as lush and entertaining a rendition as anyone could hope for and benefits immeasurably from Matt Loehr in the title role.
The Jazz Singer: The Musical never really takes its audience back in time, but has a false feeling that we're watching actors put on a play. But there are reasons this production at the Will…
Three epic productions stretching the resources of their companies are among the musicals vying to collect the most gold in the 40th anniversary edition of the Carbonell Awards recognizing e…
Complete list of nominations for the 2015 Carbonell Awards and county, theater and show breakdown analysis
Because they write what they know, the five playwrights of Punchline Theatre Company's #Unhappy Hour provide another peek into the evolving saga of Millennials in America in the 21st Century…
In the end, the success of the Wick Theater's South Pacific is something so obvious and simple: It's the music, the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein score and lyrics delivered by a talented …
The latest edition of Diva Diaries about three aging drag performers lands inconsistently " sometimes entertaining or moving, other times feeling thin, perfunctory and artificial. But it;s h…
There's more than one singular sensation in Riverside Theatre's thrilling production of A Chorus Line. It takes that heady combination of Michael Bennett's choreography and Marvin Hamlisch'…
Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair - The Jackie Mason Musical, the semi-autobiographical comedy about a young South Florida woman whose affair with the famed comedian results in a love child…
From the sequin-bright sparkle to the propulsive power of the 20th Century Limited, the new national tour of 42nd Street at the Kravis on Broadway series is a polished, energizing and thorou…
By Bill Hirschman Pompadour, the new musical subtitled Hits, Harmony and Hairspray bowing at Broward Stage Door, is what it is and is what it wants to be. So the question that only you can a…
This is the power of the play King Charles III: Six weeks after seeing it, I found myself at intermission of a local show last weekend still raving about it to other audience members. So muc…
How do you solve a problem of taking a 56-year old American musical classic and making it fresh for a modern audience? If you're director Jack O'Brien, you lovingly dust the tarnish off of T…
2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a possibly homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, the heartbreaking consequence of passing on g…
The tour of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit.
This definitively children's musical …
