2,704 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Last Minute News: Two Shows M Ensemble Company is launching a new play series this weekend only with Hate! An American Love Story, a one-woman piece written and performed by local actress Ch…
Two Florida men who by chance sat next to each other at the Holocaust play at Broward Stage Door, A Shayna Maidel, discovered they had been in the same forced labor camp during World War II.
The script of Dutchman, Amiri Bakara's classic 1964 play of racial and sexual politics, crackles with the explosive rage that Langston Hughes' predicted in "A Dream Deferred." The fact that …
Stage Combat Violence, the ultimate expression of dramatic conflict, has long been a staple of theater, going back to the days of Og the Caveman retelling his war exploits around the fire. T…
GableStage's powerful Ruined examines our species' simultaneous capacity for a bottomless cruelty absent in animals and an inextinguishable humanity that borders on divinity. This engrossing…
[box_full] Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists,…
A group of loopy scenarios fuel eight daffy short plays by local playwrights thumbing their nose at Death in an often funny if markedly uneven collection commissioned by the Alliance Theatre…
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
For immigrants wrestling with cultural assimilation, salvation lies not in burying the past life, but coming to terms with its baggage and its ghosts. Playwright Barbara Lebow illustrated he…
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at bill@floridatheateronstage.com and we'll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Actors…
The ever-morphing statuses and a lack of historical records guarantee that the following lists will be incomplete or even inaccurate. If you have additional or more accurate information, ple…
The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what's happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer's hot-and-cold reception of Kee…
Florida Theater On Stage is taking a step back in the brief lull in the season to analyze the present and future of South Florida theater in some depth. We're celebrating our first anniversa…
Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts " and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks reve…
By Bill Hirschman The dog days of South Florida theater have resembled greyhounds rather than bassets. But the advent of Labor Day weekend ratchets up the pace once again. * Quick note: …
Nancy Barnett, the former managing director of Florida Stage, has taken a job as executive director of Actors' Express Theatre in Atlanta effective immediately.
In Irving Berlin Salutes America at The Plaza Theatre, four capable performers plus the pianist/ arranger delivered the musical equivalent of a familiar old down comforter and a hot toddy fo…
You're invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you're invited. You don't have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very ex…
Island City Stage's The Twentieth Century Way is an intellectual theater game worthy of Pirandello or Stoppard in which facets swirl at such a dizzying speed that individual ideas become too…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
The Company Company, a group of current and former New World School of the Arts students, is holding its fourth annual New Play Project comprised of short works written, acted and directed b…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…