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Sunday, May 10, 2020

You Can’t Stop The Beat: Well, At Least Online In So. Florida by Bill Hirschman

Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even sol…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PM
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Answers To Our Not Annual Theater Geek Trivia Contest by Bill Hirschman

No, don't open this yet. Don't cheat. Sweeney is watching.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PM

Our Fifth Not Remotely Annual Theater Geek Trivia Contest by Bill Hirschman

So you think you know nearly everything about theater except when Broadway will reopen? (We will hold a betting pool next week). On an unreliably intermittent random basis over the years, we…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PM
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Book Review: Bob Avian’s Engrossing Inside Look At Broadway “Dancing Man “ by Bill Hirschman

The paradigm of theater as a co-creative art is repeatedly depicted in Bob Avian’s autobiography Dancing Man, an engrossing account of the creation of theater seen from the inside in an il…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PM
Monday, April 20, 2020

Miami-Dade Arts Lost $22.8 Million Through March by Bill Hirschman

Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the Miami-Dade arts and culture world an estimated $22.9 million and affected 1,700 jobs just through the end of March, according to the first figures…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PM
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In by Bill Hirschman

One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In by Bill Hirschman

One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AM
Friday, April 17, 2020

Joseph Adler, Transformative Titan And Champion Of South Florida Theater, Dies At 79 by Bill Hirschman

Joseph Adler, a titan who helped transform South Florida’s cultural landscape by mounting unblinking, dynamic work and aggressively championing local artists, died Thursday. Passionate and…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03AM
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Measure For Measure To Spread Angels In America Over 6 Nights by Bill Hirschman

Measure For Measure Theatre will deliver the entire Angels In America epic in a free online reading over the next two weeks in one of the most unusual arrangements the region has yet seen. T…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AM
Monday, April 13, 2020

Theatre Lab Sets 2nd Benefit — For Behind The Scenes Workers by Bill Hirschman

Theatre Lab is creating a second Online Monologue Festival culminating with an April 27 performance to benefit behind the scenes workers in South Florida theater such as stage managers, des…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PM
Friday, April 10, 2020

Main Street Players Taps Winners In New Play Competition by Bill Hirschman

Main Street Players, the Miami Lakes company that transformed from a community theater to professional status, has announced the winners of its 2020 New Play Competition Winners.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PM
Thursday, April 9, 2020

More Online: New City Players, MNM, Miami New Drama by Bill Hirschman

Many South Florida theater companies are reaching out online to stay connected with their communities with free opportunities for interaction and learning, among them New City Players in For…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM
Monday, April 6, 2020

No Prom Tonight, But Carbonells Tap Scholarship Winners by Bill Hirschman

The Carbonell Awards 44th annual gala was slated for Monday – and a future date has not been announced – but the organization announced the winners of its 2020 Jack Zink Memorial Student…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Cappies Nominations Listed; Livestreamed Awards May 19 by Bill Hirschman

The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism managed to finish its season and vote on the awards despite the challenge of COVID-19 that…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PM
Friday, April 3, 2020

Zev Buffman, Legendary Local & National Figure, Dead At 89 by Bill Hirschman

Nationally-known impresario Zev Buffman, a key figure in the evolution of South Florida theater, died Wednesday. Charismatic with an elfin visage and a slight accent from his origins in Isra…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

SoFla Monologues: A Different Kind Of Room Where It Happens by Bill Hirschman

Across South Florida, 37 artists accustomed to performing in front of 50 to 1,000 people sat alone in their bedrooms, their kitchens, their patios, their backyards emoting just as earnestly …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM

Full List Of Monologue Plays With Donation Contact Info by Bill Hirschman

To help with donations – and viewing your favorite performer – this is a list of every piece. The first figure is when the piece appears on the programs; the second item in italics is th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM
Saturday, March 28, 2020

League Creates Fund To Help Theaters Pay Laid Off Artists by Bill Hirschman

The South Florida Theatre League has started the South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund, in light of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected live theater workers. The purpose is to help the…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:03PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Open A New Window: SoFla Theaters Reach Out Online by Bill Hirschman

South Florida stages are dormant, but the theaters themselves are not. Already, the community is trying to adapt to the exigencies of the current brave new world by offering imaginative init…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AM
Monday, March 23, 2020

“I’m Still Here” SoFla Theaters Say, But What Will ‘Here’ Be? by Bill Hirschman

In-depth report: Sets still standing on stages are silent pledges that these productions and theater itself in South Florida will resume – albeit in what many believe will be a different …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PM
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Yes, The Show Does Go On – Online: A List of Websites by Bill Hirschman

Nothing can match the experience of live theater. But when such gatherings can be irresponsible, if not deadly, we need the healing, uplifting and just plain diverting gifts that theater pro…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PM
Friday, March 20, 2020

One Patron At Arsht’s March 15 Hamilton Reports Later Diagnosis Of COVAD-19 by Bill Hirschman

A patron attending the March 12 performance of Hamilton at the Arsht Center has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. The venue stressed that there have been no other reports connected…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM
Friday, March 13, 2020

Full List of Openings/Closings by Bill Hirschman

This list of openings and closings is based on information provided primarily by the theaters and venues. It is accurate as of the time of posting, but patrons planning to attend shows that …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Coronavirus: Miami New Drama Premiere Postponed; Others Redouble Cleaning Venues by Bill Hirschman

The Coronavirus is causing the postponement of some individual South Florida theater performances, including the eagerly awaited world premiere musical A Wonderful World at Miami New Drama. …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PM

Impressive ’20-21 Seasons: Bway In FTL, Actors’ Playhouse, Wick Theatre, Lake Worth Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

Titles announced by more South Florida theaters in their 2020-21 seasons including Broadway in Fort Lauderdale: To Kill A Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas, and Hamilton returns; Actors�…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24AM
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Nick Duckart: Life On The Road With Come From Away Tour by Bill Hirschman

Travelling in the national tour means moving to a different hotel in a different city nearly every week, not always sure what city that is, maintaining relationships with loved ones from afa…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Helen on Wheels at Pigs Do Fly by Bill Hirschman

The Helen in Helen on Wheels is Helen Wheeler, a spirited, allegedly 70-something widow who speaks her mind and challenges anyone who crosses her as she continues to mourn her husband. But H…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Nice Parts of ‘Mean Girls’ by Bill Hirschman

Oh, those mean girls. If you were unlucky to encounter them, they made your high school days unbearable, humiliated you so you felt inferior and tried to dictate who your friends were. They …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PM
Monday, March 2, 2020

Ronnie Larsen’s Musical ‘Come Out! Come Out!’ Shows Promise by Bill Hirschman

Gay men, characterized as deviants in 1920s New York City, populate prolific playwright Ronnie Larsen’s new musical, Come Out! Come Out! at the Wilton Theatre Factory. Come Out! Come Out! …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Miami New Drama Tunes Up Debut Of Wonderful World — A Louis Armstrong Bio-Musical by Bill Hirschman

Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama's world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World – not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong’s famou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PM
Friday, February 28, 2020

Maltz’s Brighton Beach Memoirs Makes Strong Memories by Bill Hirschman

Home is the place where they have to take you in, to paraphrase Robert Frost. It’s also the place where every family dynamic plays out — love, resentment, growing pains, conflict, chaos,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime