2,662 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
There's a reason, as seen in Broward Stage Door's revival, that Beau Jest has survived for so long. . Despite a sentimental mechanical finale and humor so vaudevillian you can hear the rim s…
Janet Langhart Cohen's play, Anne & Emmett, this notion of imagination and introduction paves the way for a stirring play about intolerance and two people from decidedly different backg…
The surprising virtue of Florida Grand Opera's 11th retelling of Verdi's La Traviata is that for all the performers singing high E's at the top of their lungs, all the falling to their knees…
It's weird but wonderful that two full decades after the height of the AIDS crisis that Paul Rudnick's touching but hilarious satire Jeffrey now revived at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre fee…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
The creation of a new theater on the site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse came one step closer at midnight Monday when the state's lease application process closed with only one party express…
So much is right about Slow Burn Theatre Company's scaling of that Everest of musical theater, Sweeney Todd, that there's no shame to acknowledge that it's a competent not a transporting pro…
"Act as if ye had faith and faith shall be given ye" goes the maxim and the performers in Zoetic Stage's production of The Savannah Disputation seem to have taken it as their watchword. They…
Colin McPhillamy is currently starring as the addled and doomed King in Palm Beach Dramaworks' acclaimed of Exit The King, but the surreal nature of Ionesco's play reportedly pales in compar…
Editor, consultant and fashion icon Isabella Blow lived a tumultuous life that encompassed trend-setting style, two marriages plagued by infertility, championing designers like Alexander McQ…
An Iliad is a breathtaking solo show from Boca Raton's Outre Theatre Company starring Avi Hoffman that exhumes Homer's dramatization of the mythological Trojan War in terms we all can unders…
An increasingly ambitious season has been announced for Theater Up Close's 2013-2014 schedule, the initiative which teams the Adrienne Arsht Center with Zoetic Stage, the University of Miami…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Robert Schenkkan's meditation on power and pragmatism, All The Way, as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Th…
Some 20th Century classics, a 21st Century gem by an acclaimed master, and a 1997 thriller you've likely never heard of form the backbone of Palm Beach Dramaworks' 14th season announced this…
Slow Burn Theatre Company, the scrappy young Palm Beach County troupe with a reputation for skillfully mounted and thought-provoking musicals, will tour two of its productions next season to…
Several folks have posted online photo albums of Monday night's Theater Prom and the after-party sponsored by the South Florida Theatre League. Let us know if you have more collections you w…
Playing a 5,000-year-old poet decrying humanity's addiction to rage and violence, clothing his warning in a modern retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War, this is not your grandma'…
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is just an extravagant, downright silly and infectiously entertaining hoot, a gay fantasia " as in Disney's Fantasia " playing for only one week at the Arsht …
By Bill Hirschman The vast variety of theater so characteristic of South Florida's diverse arts scene was underscored Monday night as excellence was honored in at the 37th annual Carbonell A…
The complete list of the winners and nominees of the 2012-2013 Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater.
We will get a list of winners posted as soon as possible, probably about 11 p.m., followed by a full account of Theater Prom shortly after that. Thank you for your patience.
The word "hilarious" rarely applies to a bleak unblinking play about mortality, but Palm Beach Dramawork's superb production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King earns it, along with…
Broward-based Costume World plans to open a producing theater company along with its museum at the former Caldwell Theatre building in Boca Raton around September, CEO and President Marilynn…
By Bill Hirschman There's a moment in New Theatre's quirky and surprisingly pleasant production of Bird In The Hand that captures the offbeat vibe in this bittersweet comedic memoir about gr…
Road show producers have reconceived Frank Wildhorn's legitimate musical Jekyll & Hyde into an all out American Idol rock 'n'roll extravaganza complete with supposedly Edwardian charac…
