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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

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
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Theatre Critics Award Steinberg And Osborn Playwriting Award by Bill Hirschman

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Awar…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00PM

The Magnificents Is Old Fashioned Entertainment by Bill Hirschman

The Magnificents, The House Theatre of Chicago's production that's playing inside the intimate Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is pure and simple and classic entertainm…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Magnificents Is Theatrical Ode To Classic Magic At Arsht by Bill Hirschman

By Michelle F. Solomon If the House Theater of Chicago’s Death and Harry Houdini was about neglecting life in the pursuit of conquering death, The Magnificents is the other side of the…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:28AM
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Women Playing Hamlet Wryly Examines An Actor’s Inner Life by Bill Hirschman

For such a very funny play, the world premiere of Women Playing Hamlet at New Theatre digs deeply into that alchemical process when an actor draws on their own life experience to create a cr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:27AM
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Wick’s O-o-o-o-o-klahoma! Is Tuneful Mainstream Fairy Tale by Bill Hirschman

The Wick Theatre’s Oklahoma! is an apple cheek fairy tale drawn in only two dimensions, a broad musical comedy sprightly painted with bright vibrant colors that will not fail to entertain …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:11PM
Friday, April 3, 2015

Intriguing Thought-Provoking Look At The Nature Of God On GableStage’s New Jerusalem by Bill Hirschman

The central tenets of Baruch de Spinoza's rationalist ethos are explored exhaustively and exhaustingly in GableStage’s intriguing production of David Ives’ New Jerusalem which surely co…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PM
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Lots Of Circus Spectacle But Not A Lot Of Heart In New Pippin by Bill Hirschman

Aerialists contort their muscles aloft on trapezes. Tumblers leap through hoops. Performers juggle knives and fiery torches. And somewhere under all that flash and glitter is the beloved Pip…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43AM
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Dramawork’s Buried Child Is Harrowing Thrilling Theater by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks' Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it’s more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

39th Carbonell Awards Honors Excellence At Theater Prom by Bill Hirschman

Hundreds of theater professionals and fans gathered Monday night in tuxes and gowns at theater prom better known as The 39th Carbonell Awards on Monday night.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:20AM
Monday, March 30, 2015

2015 Carbonell Award Winners by Bill Hirschman

Best New Work (Play or Musical) (4 nominees) ** Clark Gable Slept Here, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Cuban Spring, Vanessa Garcia, New Theatre Have I Got a Girl for You, Josh Mesnick, Isla…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:05PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

John Rubinstein & Pippin: I’ve Heard That Song Somewhere by Bill Hirschman

Déjà vu is inevitable for John Rubinstein as he portrays the father of the title protagonist in Pippin revival’s national tour coming to the Broward Center next week. After all, Rubinste…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:20AM
Monday, March 23, 2015

Palm Beach Dramaworks To Unearth Shepard’s Buried Child by Bill Hirschman

By Michelle F. Solomon Director J. Barry Lewis has a way of approaching a play like Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work that gets a staging by Palm Beach Dramaw…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:53PM
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Stage Door Resurrects Cohan, Vaudeville & Vintage Broadway by Bill Hirschman

Vaudeville and vintage musical comedy may be dead but the ghost of the emperor of that era resurrects them in Broward Stage Door’s enthusiastic revival of the one-man George M. Cohan Tonig…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:09AM
Saturday, March 21, 2015

This Is A First Date Worth Going Out On At Actors’ Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

The utterly charming new show at Actors’ Playhouse is a musical for, by and about the 21st Century Urban Neurotic Young Adult in that eternal crucible of awkward human relations: the "Firs…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:34PM
Friday, March 20, 2015

Earthquake: One Night Only, Benefit For Mad Cat Theatre by Bill Hirschman

A new play, Earthquake, written and directed by Mad Cat Theatre Company member Jessica Farr, will be performed one night only, in a benefit performance, as part of the South Beach Comedy Fes…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:15PM
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Breaking News: Parade Productions Takes Final Bow by Bill Hirschman

The three-year-old Parade Productions is shutting down as a purveyor of professional theater, its founder reported Wednesday.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM

ATCA/Steinberg Six Finalists Named For New Plays Contest by Bill Hirschman

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:41PM
Monday, March 16, 2015

Iris Acker, Naked Stage, Shiller To Be Honored With Carbonells by Bill Hirschman

The Carbonell Awards will bestow its highest honors this month: Arsht Executive Vice President and Carbonell President oScott Shiller will receive the George Abbott Award, actress-director-p…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:55PM
Sunday, March 15, 2015

The Sound Of Music Is Maltz’s Secret To Stunning Les Miz by Bill Hirschman

Viewing the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Les Misérables is like watching an art restorer wipe away decades of obscuring grime from a canvas and savoring what you forgot was hidden underneath �…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:15PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Heartfelt Performances Elevate Thinking Cap’s Patsy Cline by Bill Hirschman

By Bill Hirschman Savoring the pungent joy and sorrow of Always…Patsy Cline does not require the audience to love the Eisenhower Era musical moment when country-western music began morphin…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:21PM
Friday, March 13, 2015

On 8th Visit, Wicked Retains Some Of The Magic, But Actors Really Pump Up The Heart by Bill Hirschman

After 14 years and counting on Broadway, a decade on the road and on its eighth visit to South Florida, some of the magic should have vanished from the musical Wicked. But the tour has not o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:14PM
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Coconut Grove Playhouse Reaches Crucial Stage Thursday by Bill Hirschman

The resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse is poised to take a major step forward Thursday afternoon, but precisely what that phoenix will look like when it rises is nearly guaranteed t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:11PM
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tyrrell’s Arts Garage Takes Final Bow With Uncertain Terms by Bill Hirschman

The key to enjoying world premieres like Uncertain Terms at The Theatre at Arts Garage is to understand that you are seeing a work in progress. So picking out what works and what doesn’t i…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:45PM

Breaking News: Lou Tyrrell Leaving Theatre At Arts Garage by Bill Hirschman

Lou Tyrrell, founder of The Theater at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, will resign as its artistic director at the end of the run of its current show this month, which closes the company’s fo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Emotions, Not S & M Is The Real Attraction in Zoetic’s Trust by Bill Hirschman

Even though chains hang from the rafters before Trust opens and the buzz will fixate on the S&M, sex is only the milieu for Zoetic Stage's rollicking yet incisive study of how people’…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:26PM

Wide Range In Broadway Across Miami Tour Series in 2015-2016 by Bill Hirschman

Flash, punk glam, rhythm & blues and about as traditional an offering as possible comprise the Broadway In Miami series next season.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:05AM
Friday, March 6, 2015

Alliance Bathes Frankie and Johnny In Quirky Moonlight by Bill Hirschman

The Alliance Theatre paints a lovely, off-beat love affair between two wounded souls in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01PM
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Palm Beach Dramaworks To Buy Theater Outright On Monday by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks will purchase outright its new home in downtown West Palm Beach on Monday morning, several months earlier than planned, managing director Sue Ellen Beryl confirmed Thur…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:45PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Can You Spell Hilarious Or Poignant? Slow Burn’s Bee Can by Bill Hirschman

Slow Burn Theatre Company gives the perennial favorite The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as excellent a production as we’ve seen of it, hitting the perfect balance between the hil…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:26PM

Words Have Special Meaning In Guild’s Tuesdays With Morrie by Bill Hirschman

Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of Tuesdays With Morrie has increasing resonance for Boomers caring for their parents.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:38AM

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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
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime