2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
A war of words smoothly flows between two articulate, bright people with immensely opposing views on nearly every subject in British playwright David Hare's drama Skylight, receiving a perce…
Sometimes the joint is jumpin' in M Ensemble Company's Ain't Misbehavin', sometime things are sluggish; sometimes you can savor the brilliant lyrics coming from a talented quintet , sometime…
Skylight might seem just an intriguing play focusing on an older widower trying to rekindle a relationship with a younger woman with whom he was having an affair with while he was married. B…
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Kravis Center through Feb. 16, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But this tou…
The first things to know about Slow Burn Theater Company's musical Groundhog Day is (a) do not go expecting to see the movie and (b) do not go expecting Bill Murray. The third thing is that …
You are invited to a wedding this month, well, a theater experience recreating a wedding. It may seem at first blush not your everyday wedding with the title Diego & Drew Say I Do, but a…
Face it. Resistance is useless when it comes to enjoying The 39 Steps. Any theater worth its comic salt will plunge head long into this madcap Hitchcock parody -- Vero Beach's Riverside Thea…
Across the face and embedded in the voice of the hero-narrator we can see a drive he can't ignore, the profound costs and the unequaled joy of creating art in West Boca Theatre Company's mo…
Given the multiple challenges inherent in mounting a stage version of the iconic film The Graduate, the Empire Stage production does reasonably well because of the commitment of everyone inv…
Michael Leon's world premiere The Cubans at Miami New Drama delivers an almost tactile depiction of how an extended family with multiple generations prioritize family unity while trying to p…
If Area Stage Company's world premiere production of Peter x Wendy documents anything, it's that Giancarlo Rodaz is the Orson Welles-like wunderkind of South Florida theater. It is a testame…
Amid a backdrop of changes and challenges, the Carbonell Awards nominations were released Tuesday recognizing excellence in South Florida professional theater. Classics, world premieres mark…
Best New Work (play or musical) + An Evening with John Wayne Gacy, by Ronnie Larsen, Ronnie Larsen Presents/Infinite Abyss + Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, by Billy Corben and Aurin Squire…
Mamma Mia! is another one of those Great Continental Divides in theater: you either love it " or you hate yourself for standing up and clapping along in the final mega-mix medley of infectio…
Franklin Graham, the homophobic alt-right son of Billy Graham, just finished a revival tour of Florida this weekend. Too bad he didn't attend the revival of the musical Altar Boyz at Island …
GableStage's co-production with Palm Beach Dramaworks of the world premiere of Ordinary Americans traces TV icon Gertrude Berg as she battles blacklisting, featuring stellar performance by E…
Later we'll get to the surprisingly strong performance of an America's Got Talent semi-finalist in the title role; more importantly, the Wick Theatre's production of Evita is a painful remin…
Riverside Theatre puts a new shine on old tropes in its snappy and vibrant production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
By Bill Hirschman When hearing that the Maltz Jupiter Theater is presenting Chicago, potential audiences could be forgiven for thinking silently: "Chicago? Again? Seen it two or five times a…
Area Stage Company, the Miami theatrical icon since 1989, will be moving this spring from Coral Gable's old Riviera Theatre to a temporary home two blocks south in a a shopping center " and …
One sign that the South Florida snowbird season has fully arrived is that theaters are trotting out the titles for next season in hopes of enticing early subscriptions. On Monday, Palm Beach…
It takes courage to mount a play whose 1992 film version is as iconic as A Few Good Men with an unforgettable performance by Jack Nicholson . But this production of Aaron Sorkin's play by Pe…
American Son at Zoetic Stage doesn't offer solutions to the complexity of race so much as explore with increasing intensity the exact craggy contours of the gulf. Christopher Demos-Brown's …
The first half to two-thirds of the West Boca Theatre Company's Brighton Beach Memoirs is sincere, but unsubtle and unsatisfying theater. Then this production slowly starts to ramp up with i…
The Disneyization of Broadway has brought a whole new world of theater to a new generation of audiences who, hopefully, will be theatergoers for a lifetime. Put the highly entertaining Aladd…
