2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it's a musical.
Marquee Theater Company's production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the "Whatever" generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex …
Lots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach Cou…
If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren't wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalis…
The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbe…
Actors Playhouse's production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Bro…
Nearly everyone in the Palm Beach Dramaworks' superb production of The History Boys is in love with unleashing flash floods of verbiage in an orgy of ideas illustrated by their addiction to …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons b…
Probably the last place you'd want to be after rehearsing with the same cast and crew for weeks, then knowing you're heading into a month-long run would be gathering at a table for Thanksgiv…
From the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become "a hero and a scholar," Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world of m…
It is long past time for theaters and theater patrons to come down hard on audience members who text, talk incessantly, photograph set designs, video production numbers, check messages from …
Theater buffs are the easiest people to shop for on your holiday list, as our Brad Hathaway proves in his annual roundup.
Any production of Gypsy that spotlights Ann Marie Olson's golden voice n can be forgiven nearly anything. But otherwise, much of this production is as thin as the tinny tracks and high schoo…
A low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert has never been more claustrophobic"nor more intense"than the shabby one in which three people collide against each other in Sam Shepard…
Nine people who have changed the face of South Florida culture will receive the South Florida Theatre League's Remy Awards at the League's annual holiday celebration on December 7 in Fort La…
Susan J. Westfall's Two Weekends and a Day at New Theatre is a classic example of a world premiere that has admirable virtues worth exploring further, but a serious need for more re-tooling.
"A blank page or canvas. So many… possibilities." .            –Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George By Bill Hirschman Like a spinni…
Thinking Cap Theatre sets The Importance of Being Earnest in a madcap lampoon of New York City's disco era. The urbane and farcical elements are irreconcilably at war, but each facet " one o…
Start the clock, Florida. The moment tickets go on sale for the national tour of On Your Feet!, get on line. In fact, if you're planning to be anywhere near the Big Apple, shell out the duca…
Even the Bugs Bunny The Barber of Seville (which gets a subtle nod in Florida Grand Opera's new outing) never featured the tenor and baritone-bass dueling with a plumber's plunger and a toil…
By Hap Erstein In the same way that Slow Burn Theatre Company's artistic director Patrick Fitzwater has a good eye for spotting performance talent, he also is savvy at identifying worthy new…
Immersive technology goes a long way in elevating Topher Payne's Angry Fags at Island City Stage, but the play still suffers from elephantine pacing and a sense of crippling logorrhea. Yet t…
By Keren Moros Special to Florida Theater On Stage Just because something isn't a success at first, it doesn't mean it can't be a success later. Take Disney's Newsies, a success story more t…
The first question that everyone wants answered is: Is it possible to buy Lee Roy Reams as Dolly Levi in The Wick Theatre's Hello, Dolly! The answer is "sometimes." The answer also depends o…
In Christopher Demos-Brown's shattering world premiere Stripped at Zoetic Stage, the audience is faced with a complex child custody case is forced to judge past the surface facets of a case …
