2,704 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Seeking "Who am I?" is the defining journey of most lives, and our religious heritage is part of the solution, even if we don't embrace that religion or its culture. Such is the soul of Sta…
Here's a look back at 2014 including a very subjective subjunctive reductive list of outstanding shows, performances and developments guaranteed to make someone unhappy they were not on the …
This production of Five Guys Named Moe is an energetic romp with some of the most energized performers to burn up the floorboards at Broward Stage Door. The joint is most definitely jumpin'.
If you can accept that film is a different storytelling medium from theater, this version of Into The Woods is not only faithful to Sondheim and Lapine's vision of darkness and light, it act…
News about a fundraiser for Slow Burn Theatre Company, the semi-annual 1-Acts at New Theatre and the resurrection of Infinite Abyss
Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's production of ,Miracle on South Division Street has all the makings to become a perennial holiday comedy favorite.
Whenever Leslie Uggams lets loose that glorious voice, whenever the live band swings into one of Jerry Herman's standards, the Wick Theatre's production of Mame is an irresistible pleasure. …
Delray Beach Center for the Arts' first in-house theater production, A Chorus Line, delivers a faithful recreation with young local talent, although it's almost a carbon copy of the origina…
Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Palm Beach Dramaworks is a cornucopia of delightful wordplay and an insightful examination of human relationships, featuring superb performances by Estelle …
More than a dozen shows are open and a lot of holiday/family demands are battling for space on your calendar. But shoehorn in Primal Force's stunning production of a scorching play few have …
Audiences need to savor the undeniable virtues and achievements of local Shakespearean productions -- even when counter-balanced by well-intentioned even courageous but equally undeniable fl…
Director Marcia Milgrom Dodge triumphed reinventing Hello Dolly! in 2012; this time she hasn't been quite as unassailably successful, but the overall evening grows on you as it swells into a…
Puzzled what to give that theater fan for the holidays. Check out Brad Hathaway's suggestions. And of course, a season subscription is always welcome.
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise t…
When Brian Stokes Mitchell comes to the Broward Center with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and his deep, lush baritone on Dec. 8, he will be among numerous stage stars swinging through South …
Timekeepers bowed at Island City Stage in October 2013. In April, the production won Carbonells for best play, best director, best actor Michael McKeever, best sound, best lighting and best …
Estelle Parsons, Angelica Page, Tim Altmeyer, about to open in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Dramaworks, talk about the life of "a working actor."
For someone who has been singing virtually the entire Jerry Herman songbook for decades, it's ironic that only now is Leslie Uggams getting to play the title role of Mame in the musical bowi…
Sometimes when the company is engaging, it doesn't matter whether the journey itself is a little bumpy or overly-familiar. Such is the power of winning performances by Christina Alexander an…
As if it was even needed, molten lava in the guise of scalding verbal acrimony ravages the apartment where incendiary family strife already was poised to detonate into devastation in GableSt…
For all the derision and adoration that the basic material has engendered over 28 years, the thoroughly-retooled The Phantom of the Opera gliding over a fog-shrouded lake into the Broward Ce…
Donald Margulies' The Country House riffs on Chekhov's The Seagull but stands as its own as a compassionately sad-funny portrait of an emotional landscape.
In 2014, no one should be able to make the ludicrous thrust of Madama Butterfly remotely credible, yet Florida Grand Opera's 74th season opener produces a perfectly plausible tale of an aba…
Old Jews Telling Jokes at Broward Stage Door is precisely what it wants to be and precisely what you think it will be. If it sounds mildly engaging, you will love it, for what they want to d…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's Everyday Rapture is bliss and it's the reason to get yourself to the Willow Theatre. Jodie Langel, Ann Marie Olson and Leah Sessa possess some of the best voices y…
