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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Gen Y’ers Struggle With Dehumanizing Technology In New Theatre’s Leveling Up by Bill Hirschman

Leveling Up getting an intriguing production by New Theatre is about far more than a 20-something gaming magus in Las Vegas hired to remotely operate drones that eliminate real targets in th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40AM
Monday, June 1, 2015

Casa Valentina Explores The Men Beneath The Pearls And Lipstick At GableStage by Bill Hirschman

Harvey Fierstein’s thought-provoking Casa Valentina play at GableStage explores is that sexuality as an infinitely varied stew of preferences, prejudices and other ingredients in varied me…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:53PM
Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Power And Pain Of Love In McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband by Bill Hirschman

Michael McKeever’s stunning world premiere play Daniel's Husband at Island City Stage is an indelible and inarguable exhibit that love between human begins is unquantifiably precious and i…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PM
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Report From New York: ‘It’s Only A Play’ High And Inside Baseball by Bill Hirschman

Inside baseball describes the wry and witty It’s Only A Play, if you’re one of us who can name all six shows that earned Tony nominations for Kelli O’Hara. But if you’re one of the t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:52PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Report From New York: Be Glad To Have Kristin Chenoweth Aboard On The 20th Century by Bill Hirschman

We’re back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our regional…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:14PM
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Report From New York: Inky Comedy Hand To God Is Riveting, Riotous And Deeply Unnerving by Bill Hirschman

“Dark comedy” usually refers to a blithely cynical or whistling-past-the-graveyard attitude, but in the hilarious and unnerving Hand To God the darkness is pure visceral evil.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:14AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Report From New York: Something Rotten Is Far From It by Bill Hirschman

From Elizabethan actors lining up ala A Chorus Line with oil paintings for their headshots, to a preening rock star Shakespeare spouting his greatest hits to a sycophantic crowd, Something R…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:46AM
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Theatre League Offers Free Readings All Summer And Free Tickets To Fully-Staged Plays by Bill Hirschman

Ticket prices are not an obstacle to interested theatergoers once again this summer through the South Florida Theatre League’s annual Summer Theatre Fest that provides free tickets to majo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:25AM
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Fine Cast Still Can’t Make Book Club Much Of A Page Turner by Bill Hirschman

Professionalism is the only explanation why this much talent—the cream of South Florida theater from the director to the cast to the creative team -- invested itself so deeply into the fla…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:10AM
Friday, May 22, 2015

Bell Book And Candle Only Intermittently Casts A Spell by Bill Hirschman

Broward Stage Door’s quite serviceable but not bewitching production of this 1951 fantasy love story doesn’t feel especially magical in the first act, but it locates the right bag of pix…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31AM
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Student Critics and Thespians Honored At 13th Annual Cappies by Bill Hirschman

The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 13th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the P…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:25PM
Monday, May 18, 2015

Dramaworks’ “Lady Day” Is A Tour De Force Play With Music by Bill Hirschman

Veil after veil are slowly stripped away from the elegant sophisticated stage persona that is “Billie Holiday” until standing exposed is a blunted devastated victim of racism, sexism and…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00PM
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Affair In Reverse Provides Thoughtful Fodder In Betrayal by Bill Hirschman

If God is omniscient, He must be inconsolably sad. Zoetic Stage’s superb production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal puts its audience in that poignant and painful position in which Knowledge…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07AM
Friday, May 15, 2015

Report From New York: Fun Home Is Profound Look Back At Who And What Made Us by Bill Hirschman

After love, compassion has to be the highest virtue of humanity. That tender melding of sympathy and forgiveness for human failings and their resulting tragedy suffuse the transcendent music…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:21PM
Monday, May 11, 2015

Spoof Of ’30s Musicals, Dames At Sea, Lands At The Wick by Bill Hirschman

We were tough last week on the national tour of Anything Goes. If those folks want to know what we were hoping to see, they should take the day off and drop in on what The Wick Theatre is do…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:05PM
Sunday, May 10, 2015

FGO’s English Language “The Consul” Is Affecting Nightmare by Bill Hirschman

Florida Grand Opera's production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul is somehow far more emotionally potent than fairy tale stories of ancient star-crossed Egyptian beauties and 19th centur…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Pigs Do Fly Launches Seven Short Plays For The Over 50 Set by Bill Hirschman

Ellen Wacher’s Pigs Do Fly Productions opens its second season by, for and about people over 50 years old arguing that Fitzgerald was wrong with its newest anthology of playlets under the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:39PM
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Breaking News: Arts Garage Hires Garsson & Croft But Boca Guild & Primal Forces Absorbed by Bill Hirschman

Arts Garage has partnered with veteran theater figures Keith Garsson and Genie Croft to resume presenting productions in the converted municipal garage in downtown Delray Beach. But the new…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

So-So Anything Goes: Better You Should Listen To The Cast Album by Bill Hirschman

It would be inaccurate to compare the soggy national tour of the sea-borne Anything Goes to the Titanic. But if there ever was proof that Broward Center audiences will give a standing ovatio…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:17PM
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Outre’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is, Well, Bloody Good by Bill Hirschman

With bracing anger, profuse profanity and biting satire that is more slashing than surgical, Outre Theatre Company's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will not to be everyone’s taste but for th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:17PM
Friday, May 1, 2015

Complete List Of Nominees For 13th Cappies Awards for SoFla High School Theater Students by Bill Hirschman

For those who think young people don’t care about theater, witness the hundreds of South Florida high school students involved in the nominations announced this week for the 13th annual Ca…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Coming To A Florida Theater Near You? Humana Festival Showcases New Plays by Bill Hirschman

All hell breaks loose in The Glory of the World by Charles Mee at the Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / All photos by Bill Brymer By Bill Hirschman As before, th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:47AM
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Some Drama Kicks Off A Chorus Line At Broward Stage Door by Bill Hirschman

Most critics despise adding a letter grade to their review. But watching Broward Stage Door’s admirable production of A Chorus Line kept bringing up over and over the idea of a “B” and…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:30PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Seeking A Path Through The Past In Redwood Curtain by Bill Hirschman

Lanford Wilson’s wistful and whimsical play Redwood Curtain postulates that the past we stock our psyche with becomes something integral to our being that has to be faced down if we are to…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:39AM
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Coconut Grove Playhouse Resurrection Finally Get Watershed Approvals by Bill Hirschman

More than a decade after efforts began to rescue the financially failing Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to hire an architect to design a $20 million theater …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:23PM
Monday, April 20, 2015

Words Are The Heroines In Thinking Cap’s Vita And Virginia by Bill Hirschman

In theory, Vita and Virginia details the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. But the real romance is a profligate, glorious love affair with words, with language, w…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Satire Skewers Pursuit Of Celebrity In The Little Dog Laughed At Island City by Bill Hirschman

Can a meaningful relationship blossom in a world where cynicism and self-interest seem to trump integrity and burgeoning affection? Island City Stage’s production of Douglas Carter Beane�…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:40PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Evening Star’s The Addams Family Gamely Delivers The Goofy Giggles In A Flawed Script by Bill Hirschman

There’s enough giggles and grins in Evening Star Productions' The Addams Family delivered by these game, committed thespians to keep this production mildly diverting, but they still are fi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:46PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Breaking News: Two-Theater Coconut Grove Playhouse Proposal Taken Off The Table by Bill Hirschman

A citizens’ group that pushed for 14 months for a larger, more ambitious complex for the Coconut Grove Playhouse resurrection project has shelved its plan indefinitely because the Miami-Da…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:57PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Slow Burn Theatre’s Ambitious Rent Pays Off In Spectacle by Bill Hirschman

Slow Burn Theatre Company's Rent is ambitious, daring, electric and 2 1/2 hours of non-stop rock 'n' roll — a no-holds barred, take chances, go-out-on-a-limb spectacle. But when stripped o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:10PM

Where’s Whoopi? Sister Act Is Button-Pushing Mediocrity by Bill Hirschman

Sister Act is not a terrible musical; it even has amusing and mildly entertaining passages. But the national tour at the Arsht Center is also a head-shaking mediocrity that begs an answer to…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:14PM

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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 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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