2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Sitting in Circle In The Square's deep-thrust proscenium-less theater, it's inescapable that director Daniel Fish and his team have gone way, way out of their way to let you know that this i…
In this tarnished time of disaffection, divisiveness and abandoned ideals, the synergistic resonance of the musical Man of La Mancha is more than a welcome opportunity for director Bruce Lin…
Theatre Lab's family-friendly production of When She Had Wings posits a young girl, convinced she could fly before she could walk, trying to regain her power of flight.
Oft-produced plays can sometimes be a groaner to sit through, yet again. How many more laughs can be extracted from the same story line and same characters? However, sometimes a production s…
It took a crushed femur for Boca Raton resident Bonnie Logan to find her passion " writing for the stage. Indeed, if Logan hadn't broken the thickest bone of the human skeleton, she wouldn'…
What follows is a partial list of shows listed by producing company or venue from school auditoriums to strip malls to shipping containers to 1,000-plus seat houses. It's as complete as we c…
Anticipation is one of the real joys of scanning a coming season. What follows is a completely subjective and personal list of titles we're looking forward to (besides the return of Hamilton…
Growth and evolution occur across an arc, but when you're living through the middle of it, sometimes it's difficult to realize we've reached a new level. On top of one of the most memorable …
Outré Theatre Company, a peripatetic troupe that has specialized in contemporary plays and musicals with an edgy sensibility since 2011, is planning to produce one last show and then close …
For theater folks and movie buffs, the title is a giveaway, Clemenza & Tessio Are Dead. Those with a knowledge of theater will think of Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,…
South Florida Theatre League will bestow Remy Awards Monday in Fort Lauderdale, honoring "unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes of the South Florida Theatre League …
By Bill Hirschman The ominous omens in New City Players' energetic and passionate Macbeth actually portend promising things for South Florida theater. The rarely spoken of deficiency in offe…
Fathers " becoming one, being one and losing one " are the connective tissue of Sea Wall/A Life, the emotional double bill of two one-acts currently at the Hudson Theatre . While the perform…
The musical theater evening inspired by Steinman's classic 1977 album Bat Out of Hell is precisely what you expect it to be. For some, that means pure nirvana. Others not as inclined should …
The lovely, witty and sometimes caustic songs of Noël Coward are receiving an energetic and heartfelt revival in the highly entertaining Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Co…
Starmaker, getting its world premiere at Island City Stage, is about Henry Willson, the agent behind the hunky male stars of the 1950s, who, while fooling the cameras as straight sex symbols…
Hair is a weird show, and not because the characters are weird. To the contrary, the flower children of the Vietnam era, which it explores with both affection and criticism, have arguably ag…
The creators of Tootsie, a Broadway musical destined to tour near you , made a brilliant and courageous choice to abandon duplicating the 1982 Sydney Pollack film starring Dustin Hoffman, an…
Main Street Players' tongue-in-cheek production of Men On Boats -- in which women portray the male explorers of the Colorado River -- is basically a declamatory sixth grade history pageant …
Amid a constellation of superb theater from GableStage comes a supernova of passion, pain and socio-political protest in Dominique Morisseau's scorching drama Skeleton Crew. Its portrayal of…
As in troubling days in the past, once again farce provides a welcome dose of mindless zaniness that even the real life actors on the world stage cannot not equal. Add the musical mystery Mu…
Alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, she's and he's, and those who would prefer not to self-identify, Thinking Cap Theatre and City Theatre's summer short play fest, She Shorts is f…
Live theater's ability to transport us to different situations and show us others' stories makes a solid home run in the play Toni Stone, now receiving a rousing, heartfelt production throug…
Theatreworks USA's touring production of The Lightning Thief is what results from mixing a young adult classic with a rock concert vibe à la Rent: a sometimes intense, yet always laid bac…
Even writing about it the next day, the warmth still glows. In this time, to quote a lyric from another show, "of cold and darkness, in this terrifying night," the affirmation of basic human…