2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Over 21 years, City Theatre's ever-expanding enterprises have developed and maintained a brand-level reputation for entertaining theater; its return to cool weather programming with the curr…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of the world premiere of Billy and Me, a fictionalization of the real life relationship between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, is a triump…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre gives the Disney Broadway musical Newsies something to shout about with its energetic, acrobatic, tap-dancing, choreographic eye-popper of a staging about a group …
When entering a theater playing a musical you've enjoyed numerous times, it's comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material are …
Some works of art are born in a long gestation period of mulling almost in the unconscious; others leap gloriously to life in an exultant flash that is one of joys of being a creative person…
Most Wanted starts out like one of those wacky only-in-Florida tales, but as Peter Sagal's world premiere at Theatre Lab, evolves the weirdness gives way to poignancy that eclipses the humor…
The Camp, a world premiere drama from the West Boca Theatre Company does not advance the age-old discussion how "good" people can be passively complicit in horrors, but Michael McKeever's in…
In this 21st Century revision of 1988's M. Butterfly, it's the wrongheadedness of that paternalistic hubris that is taken for granted. This incarnation delves more deeply into the human rela…
News about benefit concert for ailing choreographer Ben Solmor, another public hearing on the Coconut Grove Playhouse set for Thursday, and Andrews Living Arts closes
Just in time for the start of the holiday, the Wick Theatre delivers a shiny ornament in the form of the unabashedly romantic musical She Loves Me.
A genial older woman with a warm smile, a self-deprecating charm and a cute mittel-European accent via Brooklyn greets the audience to her apartment like new neighbors. While packing for a m…
Florida Grand Opera promised a season of Divas to Die For, and it couldn't have been more on point in that respect with its 77th season opener, Lucia di Lammermoor. Gaetano Donizetti's bel c…
If producers mount the musical Dreamgirls, it's a given that they have hired as Effie some astounding young diva capable of punching a hole in the back of the auditorium with her melisma. In…
Tune will headline a one-night-only benefit concert Nov. 18 for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and its education programs. The theater hired a ten-piece orchestra and re-orchestrated the more mod…
In this uncertain world, the ever-changing standards of what life is or even should be make it nearly impossible to chart a path forward when we have less idea what might be ahead than Colu…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's rollicking race-down-the-hill production of Peter and the Starcatcher is a joyful hoot packed with more sight gags, puns, pratfalls, wordplay and even a bit of wi…
The cat and mouse game in Zoetic Stage's Topdog/Underdog moves as swiftly and cunningly as the two characters' dexterity in the shell game, which in this case is three-card monte, a street h…
Love Never Dies is a sequel if not the equal to Phantom of the Opera from Broadway Across America at the Broward Center, but Andrew Lloyd Webber's attempt for lightning to strike twice, whil…
David Arisco has directed Evita for Actors' Playhouse three times. So, what's different this go 'round? Well, to hear him tell it, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, written four deca…
Maltz Jupiter Theatre's season-opening rendition of Born Yesterday can't pave over the script's glaring weaknesses, but it amplifies the source material's progressive strengths. Director Pet…
From its upbeat tunes to soulful longings, Hank Williams: Lost Highway takes Riverside Theatre audiences on a revealing musical story about one of America's most important country singers.
Amazingly, in 2017 with its video games, alt right-antifa strife and uber-sophistication, Our Town is still our town. And no more so than in Miami New Drama's inventive and often touching pr…
Right off the bat, Broward Stage Door's Tickling the Ivories shows the artistry of the piano wizards and of the inventiveness of a show that turns the typical musical revue theme on its ear.
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded ten years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced the identities of the 28 individuals and organizations rece…
With genuine uncertainty of how successfully it will play, Miami New Drama artistic director Michel Hausmann keeps calling his unique undertaking "an experiment."
He's mounting Our Town w…
