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A look in words and photos of David Arisco trying on Edna Turnblad's clothes in a fitting before Actors' Playhouse's production of Hairspray.
Photos of David Arisco trying on Edna Turnblad’s clothes for the Actors Playhouse production of Hairspray; photos by Bill Hirschman. Also cast photos by Alberto Romeu.
Okay, maybe your trick or treaters are too young for the dueling productions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show playing at Slowburn Theatre Company and Andrews Living Arts this month. But here…
By Bill Hirschman Variations on a Theme The Harvest One Act Play Festival, sponsored by the Variations Theatre Group in New York City, has accepted two plays each from local actor/pla…
The gleaming South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center holds its grand opening in Cutler Bay Oct. 1 and 2 with both free and ticket-only performances of music, dance and visual art.
More photos of the new center, all by Robin Hill.
Nan Barnett, managing director of Florida Stage, has written a stunning essay for American Voices New Play Institute, revealing both the devastating and transformative effect the closure had…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the wonderful 1960's musical sex farce set in ancient Rome, gets a less than stunning retread at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Sprin…
Mosaic has a reading Tuesday, Chaz Mena has one-man show, Florida Follies does a good turn, David Goldyn bows out, Actors' Playhouse has a sale, Palm Beach Theatre Guild gets new blood
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals . Â In this edition, we talk wi…
By Bill Hirschman Free theater tickets, a gala party, a marathon fund raiser, a panel discussion and open-mike storytelling are the major events in the South Florida Theater League's sixth a…
We find talk with Dan Kelley (currently starring in and directing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Broward Stage Door) who reveals what he says to a friend who's appearing …
After the Revolution and The Motherf**ker with the Hat, two of the plays slated to open in South Florida this season, are among the works that will be featured in the prestigious yearbook, T…
The scrappy Naked Stage and Promethean Theatre and about 50 of their friends stage a coffee-fueled marathon jam for a mostly sleepless 24-hour period to produce and present from scratch an e…
Marsha Norman's powerful play, 'night Mother, gets a moving production at the Alliance Theatre Lab.
Side Effects by Michael Weller, a raw, visceral look at a marriage at the mercy of the wife's mental illness, comes to stunning life at Mosaic Theatre in Plantation.
By Bill Hirschman Theater reviewers must have a better than average ego to flatter themselves into believing that their judgment has worth, regardless of what anyone else thinks. So imagine …
The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we'll run a column like this one, containing several items. If…
Actors are accustomed to carving out the marrow of their lives to provide the psychic building blocks of a performance. But for Deborah L. Sherman, her role as a bi-polar housewife in Side E…
As Bees in Honey Drown, the first Rising Action production under the leadership of new producing director Andy Rogow, is a few cuts above the company's typical fare, but is not without its o…
A new book serves a sort of tourist guide through the real locations in Pittsburgh that correlate to the scenes in August Wilson's plays.
Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge…
Amy McKenna and Andrew Wind open Friday in As Bees In Honey Drown at Rising Action this weekend / Photo by Sahid Aranud-Pabon By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping…
By Bill Hirschman The first production of the new Caldwell 2 @ Mizner tentatively set to open a three-week run on Thursday has been cancelled, Clive Cholerton, artistic director of the Caldw…
By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping that its sly moniker will add a triple-entendre of meaning, that of a phoenix rising from, if not ashes, then a troubled past…
