2,687 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
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…
When Christopher Demos-Brown's racially charged drama American Son -- which has played in other cities and bowed on Broadway -- finally opens this week at Zoetic Stage in Miami, it will be, …
At the beginning of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, now at the Arsht Center, Willy Wonka says chocolate is "quite simply, the greatest invention in the entire history of the …
In the current Broadway stratosphere, several leading actresses belie the idea that there are no more Carol Channings or Ethel Mermans. But it's hard to argue that other than Audra McDonald…
Seth Rudetsky is living the dream of every theater geek, except that he is not an outsider, he is an insider who doesn't name drop A-list performers by first name to impress; they really ar…
Writing a review of Primal Force's Villainous Company, which has more plot twists than a Christmas corkscrew, is going to be hard because we wouldn't dare to give away any spoilers. Suffice …
Other than two crippling developments, South Florida theater 2019 was marked by a wide array of what seemed like points on a volatile stock market chart marking the ebb and flow of an evolvi…
