2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
The South Florida Theatre League has started the South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund, in light of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected live theater workers. The purpose is to help the…
South Florida stages are dormant, but the theaters themselves are not. Already, the community is trying to adapt to the exigencies of the current brave new world by offering imaginative init…
In-depth report: Sets still standing on stages are silent pledges that these productions and theater itself in South Florida will resume " albeit in what many believe will be a different wo…
Nothing can match the experience of live theater. But when such gatherings can be irresponsible, if not deadly, we need the healing, uplifting and just plain diverting gifts that theater pro…
A patron attending the March 12 performance of Hamilton at the Arsht Center has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
The venue stressed that there have been no other reports connected…
This list of openings and closings is based on information provided primarily by the theaters and venues. It is accurate as of the time of posting, but patrons planning to attend shows that …
The Coronavirus is causing the postponement of some individual South Florida theater performances, including the eagerly awaited world premiere musical A Wonderful World at Miami New Drama. …
Titles announced by more South Florida theaters in their 2020-21 seasons including Broadway in Fort Lauderdale: To Kill A Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas, and Hamilton returns; Actors' …
Travelling in the national tour means moving to a different hotel in a different city nearly every week, not always sure what city that is, maintaining relationships with loved ones from afa…
The Helen in Helen on Wheels is Helen Wheeler, a spirited, allegedly 70-something widow who speaks her mind and challenges anyone who crosses her as she continues to mourn her husband. But H…
Oh, those mean girls. If you were unlucky to encounter them, they made your high school days unbearable, humiliated you so you felt inferior and tried to dictate who your friends were. They …
Gay men, characterized as deviants in 1920s New York City, populate prolific playwright Ronnie Larsen's new musical, Come Out! Come Out! at the Wilton Theatre Factory. Come Out! Come Out! is…
Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama's world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World " not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong's famous nu…
Home is the place where they have to take you in, to paraphrase Robert Frost. It's also the place where every family dynamic plays out " love, resentment, growing pains, conflict, chaos, wor…
With the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to "come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what…
While the Broadway Palm production of Beauty and the Beast at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center will elicit giggles from the kids, this local edition is a surprisingly satisfying evening eve…
Does it ever get boring being in the room where it happens?
No, it does not, as illustrated from the moment Aaron Burr begins recounting the story of this lad from the Caribbean who becam…
Something unexpected is on Riverside Theatre's mainstage: A straight play. That's right, no big box office-guaranteed lavish, toe-tapping musical Instead, patrons are getting well-developed…
Thinking Cap Theatre's stunning production of Beckett's Happy Days, offers an unmitigated triumph of a performance by Karen Stephens expertly molded by Nicole Stodard, but to say this absurd…
Another round of 2020-2021 season announcements has arrived with some promising titles -- this time from Primal Forces and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre " plus a headline-making offering from Br…
In 2016, the interactive gay wedding theatrical experience Diego & Drew Say I Do had a successful run at the Broward Center. Now it's back for a second go 'round. It has grown up just a …
There's something irresistibly intriguing when a whimsical fairy tale is invoked to teach life lessons to adults. Theatre Lab's The Glass Piano may have a befuddled king, a savvy servant and…
Don't say we didn't warn you: If you purchase a ticket to the fourth and latest iteration of Miami Motel Stories, you will be put to work. You may have to repair a costume, or apply an actor…
Plenty of laughter, and quite a few tears, punctuate the dramatic comedy, or comic drama, if you prefer in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloa…
Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortuna…
