2,661 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Sister Act is not a terrible musical; it even has amusing and mildly entertaining passages. But the national tour at the Arsht Center is also a head-shaking mediocrity that begs an answer to…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award,…
The Magnificents, The House Theatre of Chicago's production that's playing inside the intimate Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is pure and simple and classic entertainm…
By Michelle F. Solomon If the House Theater of Chicago’s Death and Harry Houdini was about neglecting life in the pursuit of conquering death, The Magnificents is the other side of the…
For such a very funny play, the world premiere of Women Playing Hamlet at New Theatre digs deeply into that alchemical process when an actor draws on their own life experience to create a cr…
The Wick Theatre's Oklahoma! is an apple cheek fairy tale drawn in only two dimensions, a broad musical comedy sprightly painted with bright vibrant colors that will not fail to entertain if…
The central tenets of Baruch de Spinoza's rationalist ethos are explored exhaustively and exhaustingly in GableStage's intriguing production of David Ives' New Jerusalem which surely counts…
Aerialists contort their muscles aloft on trapezes. Tumblers leap through hoops. Performers juggle knives and fiery torches. And somewhere under all that flash and glitter is the beloved Pip…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it's more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plow …
Hundreds of theater professionals and fans gathered Monday night in tuxes and gowns at theater prom better known as The 39th Carbonell Awards on Monday night.
Best New Work (Play or Musical) (4 nominees) ** Clark Gable Slept Here, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Cuban Spring, Vanessa Garcia, New Theatre Have I Got a Girl for You, Josh Mesnick, Isla…
Déjà vu is inevitable for John Rubinstein as he portrays the father of the title protagonist in Pippin revival's national tour coming to the Broward Center next week. After all, Rubinste…
By Michelle F. Solomon Director J. Barry Lewis has a way of approaching a play like Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work that gets a staging by Palm Beach Dramaw…
Vaudeville and vintage musical comedy may be dead but the ghost of the emperor of that era resurrects them in Broward Stage Door's enthusiastic revival of the one-man George M. Cohan Tonight!
The utterly charming new show at Actors' Playhouse is a musical for, by and about the 21st Century Urban Neurotic Young Adult in that eternal crucible of awkward human relations: the "First …
A new play, Earthquake, written and directed by Mad Cat Theatre Company member Jessica Farr, will be performed one night only, in a benefit performance, as part of the South Beach Comedy Fes…
The three-year-old Parade Productions is shutting down as a purveyor of professional theater, its founder reported Wednesday.
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for …
The Carbonell Awards will bestow its highest honors this month: Arsht Executive Vice President and Carbonell President oScott Shiller will receive the George Abbott Award, actress-director-p…
Viewing the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Les Misérables is like watching an art restorer wipe away decades of obscuring grime from a canvas and savoring what you forgot was hidden underneath " e…
By Bill Hirschman Savoring the pungent joy and sorrow of Always…Patsy Cline does not require the audience to love the Eisenhower Era musical moment when country-western music began morphin…
After 14 years and counting on Broadway, a decade on the road and on its eighth visit to South Florida, some of the magic should have vanished from the musical Wicked. But the tour has not o…
The resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse is poised to take a major step forward Thursday afternoon, but precisely what that phoenix will look like when it rises is nearly guaranteed t…
The key to enjoying world premieres like Uncertain Terms at The Theatre at Arts Garage is to understand that you are seeing a work in progress. So picking out what works and what doesn't is …
Lou Tyrrell, founder of The Theater at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, will resign as its artistic director at the end of the run of its current show this month, which closes the company's four…
