2,662 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
As the music swelled Monday at Outré Theatre Company's concert production of tick…tick…BOOM!, a thought kept interfering with my becoming completely lost in Jonathan Larson's chamber m…
Steven Dietz's insightful script, David Arisco's assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky's New…
The "S.S. Barry Manilow" songbook I Am Music! has tied up at the new Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. Your reaction to this entry depends precisely on your enjoyment of the cruise ship level of …
Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater …
The Closet, a play by Miami writer Richard Janaro, gets a reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables.
Gordon McConnell, Billy Bell and Beverly Blanchette have been honored for their achievements in the arts by the Judith Lanier Waldrop Frank and Randolph Adams Frank Foundation
As unassailable as television actress Nicole Ari Parker is as the wounded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, Emily Mann's production of A Streetcar Named Desire leaps like it was hit with a cat…
Hamlet, Prince of Cuba is a new version adapted in English by Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and translated into Spanish by N…
By Bill Hirschman Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a gentle message comedy about lonely people reaching out somewhat obliquely for human contact. But this occasionally charming pas de deux …
Donald Margulies' drama Time Stands Still which enjoys a solid production at GableStage is not a thrilling or enthralling production; it's one that keeps you thinking long after the lights c…
End of the Rainbow is an unsparing, but somewhat compassionate portrait of her final months as she lurches through a five-week gig in London's. The play itself wears the audience down with t…
The Merry Month of May " Late Additions There are a lot of updates in the calendar and theater-going opportunities for the region. –M Ensemble's Jar The Floor slated to open May 3 has …
Or Coming To A Theater Near You (Or Not) By Bill Hirschman Welcome to our semi-annual scouting trip for shows likely to appear in South Florida in a local production or a national tour ̵…
The msuic of the Broadway show Once is affecting, often lovely and occasionally haunting. However, if you expect an Original Broadway Cast album to give you a glimpse into a theatrical exper…
The terrific 1992 film that this musical Leap of Faith is based on contains a roof-raising gospel number with the lyric: "Are you ready for a miracle?" That's exactly what's needed with this…
There couldn't be a more fitting space for The House Theatre of Chicago to bring its production of Death and Harry Houdini to South Florida than the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne …
The melding of narrative metaphors and stage magic are emblematic of the spectacle infused in the play Death and Harry Houdini, another imagistic work from the House Theatre of Chicago and t…
Florida Grand Opera's incarnation of Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette under the direction of David Lefkowich is an inventively staged, well-acted mounting of this stark take on Shakespeare…
Sometimes, when the material is strong enough, success means just getting out of its way. For the most part, that's what a cast of strong singers and the director do to make Broward Stage Do…
Neither protagonists nor antagonists, the haunted trio at the center of A Measure of Cruelty are desperately seeking compassion and redemption for their separate sins when all they can find …
Florida Theater On Stage Brad Hathaway reviews CD/DVDs of People in the Picture, Spider-man Turn Off The Dark, Oscar Hammerstein - Out of My Dreams, A Connecticut Yankee,
Mad Cat Awards Scholarships Mad Cat Theatre Company has presented its first Nine Lives Scholarship Awards to Arielle Hoffman for outstanding high school senior and Emilie Paap as outstanding…
To clarify misconceptions, the drama formerly entitled The Michael Brewer Project did not end up being specifically about Michael Brewer. A Measure of Cruelty, having its world premiering at…
In Last Call, it's the patrons who sit and listen to the bartender talk about her life. Turns out the bartender is more fascinating and better company than her customers ever could be. The w…
A second Palm Beach County theater will honor tickets to its own shows in exchange for tickets to the Caldwell Theater Company's last show of the season which was cancelled last week. The Pl…
