2,662 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Looking for a peek at what might be part of next June's Summer Shorts? City Theatre is holding a free reading of as many as six contenders at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, on the second floor of…
With the upfront caveat that we saw an early preview, Broward Stage Door's Damn Yankees is a base hit but no triple. The cast needs to pitch with a little more spin on the ball, even with ta…
Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Blue, getting a gleefully mischievous world premiere at the Arts Garage, is a black comedy with all three Aristotelian verities " beer, blackmail and blood. The …
The fledgling Plaza Theatre began its existence relying on musical revues and cabaret shows, although it has recently added plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Luv and Chapter Two. Now, the compa…
The 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five tr…
Best New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, D…
Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27 Â a staged-reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial of the …
As part of our On The Boards podcasts in cooperation with Arts Radio Network, Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman sits down for a conversation with Arts Garage Artistic Director and fo…
Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon's challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly pl…
Jon Robin Baitz's finely-crafted play asks whether there is such a thing as unconditional love in Actors Playhouse's rock solid production of last season's Broadway triumph which surgically …
Outré Theatre Company has scheduled a staged reading of Nicky Silver's Fat Men In Skirts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The plot is des…
There's the canny germ of an idea in producer Zev Buffman's pet project to fuse radio, theater and modern technology into a hybrid exemplified in his latest production, Agatha Christie's The…
The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series…
South Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater -- in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are t…
Florida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher a…
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin' I…
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney's streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure…
Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Florida New Play Workshop will give a platform through this spring to four playwrights: Tony Finstrom, Michael McKeever, Dan Clancy and Jay Stuart. The product…
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we're exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage's hilarious and touching All …
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre's All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In The Rain, Cirque du S…
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway's most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes 'Round
Four years ago, The Women's Theatre Project mounted Faye Sholiton's The Interview about the persisting damage that the Holocaust wreaked across generations. As solid as the first production …
For a comedy about the magical transformation of man into a pig and how that opens up his lover's ability to commit to true love, there's plenty of laughs but not a lot of magic in Pig Tale,…
By Bill Hirschman "I'm doing all right as long as I don't pass out." It's November and Tarell Alvin McCraney has sandwiched in a trip back to his hometown to prep his January 12 production o…
Kristina Wong's Cat Lady at Mad Cat Theatre Company is downright hilarious while shot through with pathos and insights into the search for human connection. It seems to be exactly the offbea…
