2,659 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Slow Burn Theatre casts an inviting spell with its lively, sexy and highly entertaining production of The Witches of Eastwick with a first-rate cast who possess strong vocals, superb choreog…
Lovesong is a tender, quiet touching, thought-provoking play from Thinking Cap Theatre opening in new its new performance space at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center.
The post Age…
Do you have to be a fan of the Marx Brothers to enjoy the one-man epic comedy An Evening With Groucho at the Wick Theatre & Museum Club's eleventh season opener? No, but it helps.
The po…
Reinvention is the theme as The Island Theatre, the brand-new black box space at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, opens with Becoming Dr. Ruth, a production detailing the life of Dr. Ruth Westheim…
The Pompano Beach Cultural Center's new resident company Pompano Players works hard but is only intermittently successful with its debut production of Love, Loss And What I Wore with the sho…
A riveting South Florida professional production of the gripping play, Jesus Hopped the A Train, by the Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center --- a moving, intense, a…
Acting is not easy, or more people would do it, but imagine having to create not just a make-believe character, but a person who not only existed in real life, but was loved and adored by fa…
By Bill Hirschman Outstanding dialect coaching, outstanding special effects, outstanding intimacy direction. Unlike the Tony Awards, the Oscars or even South Florida's Carbonells, the Silver…
Dalia Aleman and Alexandra Van Hasselt find themselves in familiar roles as they prepare to perform in a professional South Florida co-production of the classic comedy-drama, Steel Magnolias…
Thanks to the tremendous energy of the actors at Main Street Players' Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson " Apt. 2B), there's never a dull moment, but because of its confusing jam-packed script, it …
South Florida's actor/producer/playwright Ronnie Larsen demonstrates sharp sense of humor and a keen ear for dialogue, particularly between gay men. in a revival of his first play from 30 ye…
The announcement of the 47th Carbonell Awards nominees today seemed to further the organization's desire to recognize and celebrate the continuing diversity of South Florida theater. The lis…
Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger's new family-friendly adaptation of The Little Mermaid bears little resemblance to Disney's animated film or Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairy tale. Theat…
Veteran Black actor-playwright Keith C. Wade returns to a Miami landmark to theatrically track how the civil rights movement transformed yet undercut the thriving Brownsville-Overtown "a jou…
When is the last time you went to the theater and enjoyed two hours of pure unadulterated fun and sheer frivolity? Die Mommie, Die! is that rare breed of entertainment that exists just for …
If South Florida's Loxen Entertainment, Inc. does its job well during the nonprofit company's season-opening show, the actors will seem inept. Indeed, appearing incompetent is the goal for t…
With the end of summer, the season of South Florida awards galas inches closer, marked by two announcements: the Silver Palms Awards sets a date for announcing the upcoming recipients at a s…
It is not an imposing space. It is just space. Often blank. Like a canvas waiting for something.But in a few months, magic that has been brewing 10 year sat the Maltz Jupiter Theatre will tr…
By Bill Hirschman // Rules how Carbonell Awards are judged were revised this week in response to concerns from theaters and community volunteers about the need to fine-tune the complex mathe…
By Britin Haller Those lovestruck kids and their warring families in Romeo and Juliet have nothing on the gay couple and their ultra-conservative parental figures in A Shonda, a premiere of …
By Oline H. Cogdill Love"no matter how strong, how all-encompassing, how overwhelming"can never last forever, even if we are sure it will. Death, a forced separation, a mental breakdown"all …
by Raquel V. Reyes Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!, written and directed by award-winning screenwriter Rick Najera, is billed as an interactive comedic experience. Although it doesn't fully live…
 By Britin Haller Arguably one of the greatest dramatic play in American theatrical history, and certainly of its time, A Streetcar Named Desire has rolled onto the Island City Stage wit…
"Celestina," written by David Piccotto and Julieta Daga (Argentina), will be performed July 26, 27 and 28 at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center. (Photo: byJuan Pablo An…
 By Aaron Krause "South Florida is going to really sink its teeth into something that is going to be magical, musical, and monumental," award-winning South Florida director Stuart Meltze…