By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Broth…
New Theatre is being evicted in mid-December from its Coral Gables home and is hunting for a new home in Miami-Dade County to continue operating indefinitely. The theater was notified "about…
The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at…
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals . In this edition, we find …
We've just received this letter from  Adolfo Henriques, chair of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, trying to drum up opposition to proposed budget cuts in Miami-Dade's arts …
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals who may or may not be telling us…
Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He's returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the …
The Andrews Living Arts Studio deserves credit for attempting the epic masterpiece Angels In America, Part 1: Millenium Approaches. Unfortunately, the laudable desire to conquer mountains do…
Sipiwe Moyo is a skilled enough actress that being an African American woman became nearly irrelevant to her playing the title role in New Theatre's production of Henry V. Despite a long lis…
Six Years at the Caldwell Theatre works quite well moment-to-moment, but overall it feels amorphous and, ultimately, not satisfying. It lives in that purgatory where a show has much to recom…
By Bill Hirschman When the callow king rouses the troops before the Battle of Agincourt with the St. Crispin's Day speech in New Theatre's Henry V on opening night Saturday, audiences will n…
Audience members who aren't put off by foul language, frequent blood spatters, gross-out moments such as eating dead bodies, extreme irreverence in the religious sense, sophomoric humor, che…
so my grandmother is a return to Mad Cat's idiosyncratic fantasias such as Shepherd's Pie and Helluva Halloween. Like them, it's messy, undisciplined, even self-indulgent in its determinatio…
By Bill Hirschman We believe in the future of theater, especially South Florida theater. This website is an expression of that faith. Certainly, the demise of Florida Stage infected all of u…
Pessimists' jaws dropped this month when the Caldwell Theatre Company, struggling to whittle away at a hefty mortgage, announced that it was opening Caldwell [email protected] next month, t…
The Caldwell Theatre will host TV and film star Ed Asner when he brings the national tour of his one-man show’FDR to Florida for seven performances June 1-5. The production depicts Fra…
A key line in Equus, Peter Shaffer's play about a troubled teenager who blinds horses, is 'The extremity is the point.' But that seems lost on the Andrews Living Arts Studio production that …
A huge horse grown from a tiny jade statue carries the heroine aloft over the vast plains of western China. We have already seen her gingerly traverse a rope bridge and clamber up the side o…
Bravo TV’s parade of The Real Housewives of Orange County — and Atlanta, Miami and Wichita — relies on the conviction that few things are as satisfying as watching adults b…
The landmark original cast albums of American cultural history: My Fair Lady, Company and now”’Motherhood the Musical. Broward-based GFour Productions is mixing and issuing a CD …
When regional theaters vie to be the first to mount a recent Broadway hit, the local actors often have seen the world premiere production. Their challenge is shaking off the inhibiting ghost…