2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Next month was to have marked a milestone anniversary for City Theatre and the company's much-admired Summer Shorts festival. This pandemic pause notwithstanding, it's an appropriate time to…
Two high school seniors, including the co-author of the anthem memorializing the Parkland High School shooting, won the Silver Knight Award in the drama category last week recognizing effort…
More than 60 local theater professionals contracted to work in productions in March and April have shared some of the $12,000 that South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund has raised through…
The COVID-19 virus did not rob this high school generation of the chance to honor each other's work in the South Florida Cappies organization's slickly-produced online celebration livestream…
New figures show that the COVID-19 pandemic continued to gut punch the arts community in Miami-Dade County through last month with a total loss estimated at nearly $43 million and costing mo…
For lovers of live theater, this "intermission" in communal gathering creates a hunger for more than online bare bones performances from the camera in someone's cellphone. But there is an ea…
All the world's a stage, in the case of Long Distance Affair, literally. Sitting in your living room in South Florida late this month, theater fans will be able to watch short plays beamed t…
Playwright E.M. Lewis is the 2020 recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which comes with a $25,000 prize…
Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even sol…
No, don't open this yet. Don't cheat. Sweeney is watching.
So you think you know nearly everything about theater except when Broadway will reopen? (We will hold a betting pool next week). On an unreliably intermittent random basis over the years, we…
The paradigm of theater as a co-creative art is repeatedly depicted in Bob Avian's autobiography Dancing Man, an engrossing account of the creation of theater seen from the inside in an illu…
Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the Miami-Dade arts and culture world an estimated $22.9 million and affected 1,700 jobs just through the end of March, according to the first figures…
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
Joseph Adler, a titan who helped transform South Florida's cultural landscape by mounting unblinking, dynamic work and aggressively championing local artists, died Thursday. Passionate and o…
Measure For Measure Theatre will deliver the entire Angels In America epic in a free online reading over the next two weeks in one of the most unusual arrangements the region has yet seen. T…
Theatre Lab is creating a second Online Monologue Festival culminating with an April 27 performance to benefit behind the scenes workers in South Florida theater such as stage managers, des…
Main Street Players, the Miami Lakes company that transformed from a community theater to professional status, has announced the winners of its 2020 New Play Competition Winners.
Many South Florida theater companies are reaching out online to stay connected with their communities with free opportunities for interaction and learning, among them New City Players in For…
The Carbonell Awards 44th annual gala was slated for Monday " and a future date has not been announced " but the organization announced the winners of its 2020 Jack Zink Memorial Student Sch…
The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism managed to finish its season and vote on the awards despite the challenge of COVID-19 that…
Nationally-known impresario Zev Buffman, a key figure in the evolution of South Florida theater, died Wednesday. Charismatic with an elfin visage and a slight accent from his origins in Isra…
Across South Florida, 37 artists accustomed to performing in front of 50 to 1,000 people sat alone in their bedrooms, their kitchens, their patios, their backyards emoting just as earnestly …
To help with donations " and viewing your favorite performer " this is a list of every piece. The first figure is when the piece appears on the programs; the second item in italics is the ti…