2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
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…
There's a scene of pure hallelujah in Slow Burn Theatre's A Christmas Story the Musical in which adults and children dressed in sparkly costumes echoing the fabled Major Award leg lamp are i…
If you've never seen the Broadway production of the charm-infused musical Once or missed the Actors' Playhouse version (or just want to see it again), this national touring version currently…
City Theatre's production of The Cake, about a baker who refuses to make a cake for a lesbian couple, digs deep below stereotypes to examine the contemporary clash between sincerely held pri…
The world premiere of Joseph McDonough's Ordinary Americans needs more work but it has enough promise and fine performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks that it's worth the effort. The story of …
Exuding a lushness, attention to technical detail and an overarching sense of fun, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a prime example of its skill. Proof is that the m…
How we deal specifically with the inevitability of death, whether we let it inhibit us or inspire us, is at the heart of Michael McKeever's comic fantasy Charlie Cox Runs With Scissors now e…
As we get older, the reality of loss becomes an inescapable fact of life. How we deal with that is the core of Stephen Brown's Everything is Super Great at Theatre Lab (subtitled "a comedy a…
There may never be as great a production of The Music Man as the lightning-in-a-bottle original with performances of Barbara Cook and Robert Preston. But the Wick Theatre edition led by Norb…
Awe is not a quality you usually hear in the voices of theater pros when they describe the central character in a work. But that is the sense listening to director William Hayes, playwright …
Have you ever watched a play and complained, "I could end it better than that!" Here's your chance. You " along with everyone else in the audience"gets to choose this month among 54 possible…
Some of the shows we saw on our recent trip to New York -- Tracy Letts' Linda Vista and The Height of the Storm -- were limited runs and closed before many of our readers could get there. Bu…
MNM Theatre Company's delightfully silly production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is a musical that prides itself on broad low and often ribald humor, pratfalls, double t…
A central facet of his premiere Watson at GableStage is depicting what may be the world's first personal information disaster, a horrifying tragedy as American-licensed technology is sold to…
Escape to Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffett musical at the Broward Center would work so much better as a concert version of the singer-songwriter's infectious songs imploring you, no, demand…
As the writer with 28 best-selling mystery novels, James Grippando is usually focused on whodunits. But the Florida author is about to see the world premiere of his first playscript, Watso…
The West Side Story from the Prather family's new Broadway Palm series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has so much to praise, yet, joins local productions to underscore how there a…
Island City Stage, which focuses on gay-themed work, apparently thought it was time to revive the genus of the British sex comedy with the world premiere of Lipstick, whose primary twist is …
Resulting from Down syndrome as an adult, Andy's simple, blunt and truthful verbal reactions to the complex statements and relationships swirling around him slice through the theater space a…
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash playing at Actors' Playhouse finds its entertainment in having performers, sing, dance, act and play the instruments much as with the company's succes…
