2,668 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Actor Etai Benson heaps praise on his South Florida roots in helping him to navigate his "role of a lifetime." The Coral Springs native plays Adam Hochberg in An American In Paris, now on a …
So, a loved one has given you a nice check (is there any other kind?) to celebrate the holidays, but you have no idea what to do with it. Well, for theater lovers, there are scores of option…
Reviews of three recent Broadway shows likely to be be seen in South Florida at some point in national tours or regional productions: Holiday Inn, Heisenberg and Love,Love, Love..
It won't be hard for patrons to locate Broward Stage Door's newest revue, Vegas: A Night on the Strip. All they have to do is look for the flames from the three-alarm fire as the production …
We were planning just to freshen up the review from when the national tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella played the Arsht and the Kravis two years ago, and note that this was a new n…
The multi-disciplinary Arts Garage has cancelled the rest of its theater season as it rethinks the logistics and finances that have lost money, said its new CEO Marjorie Waldo on Monday afte…
Like the requisite ballet's presentation of The Nutcracker, theater troupes have been turning over their Decembers as of late to holiday-themed plays: David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries comes…
Outré Theatre Company's edition of Tommy demonstrates how skill, imagination and pure guts can triumph over the most modest of means. Its greatest virtue in bringing the classic rock opera…
With humor, poignancy and insight, Dietz portrays just such a patchwork invisible to its residents in his new play This Random World at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Flor…
Audiences can marvel at the artistry from actor Rob Donohoe and director Lynnette Barkley in Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Tru, but the one-man bio-play about Truman Capote never quit…
South Florida singers, especially theater actors, often seek a place to try out new material, a haunt where they can keep their chops honed, a venue to show off a range their colleagues migh…
A top drawer cast marks an unusually but intentionally bare bones production of Dan Clancy's new play Middletown tracking the arc of four lives.
A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse " a plan which preserves some of…
Led by the talents of Matt Loehr, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Me and My Girl is the precisely the antidote for the seasonal angst " a couple of hours of escapist entertainment. The cast is c…
Sitting at a table in Palm Beach Dramawork's rehearsal hall, Rob Donohoe doesn't look or sound a thing like Truman Capote. He's taller, his hair is brown and full and his voice is a warm bar…
Sister Act is not a great musical, not even a good one, but the Wick Theatre's resurrection is so engaging, so energetic, so much pure fun that it will convert you and make you glad you boug…
78-year-old Delray Beach actor Alan Scharf is loving the featured role in the national tour of Dirty Dancing.
"Here be monsters" repeatedly warns one of the two weird sisters at the center of the bizarre Gothic horror play Cuddles at Theatre at Arts Garage, but the creatures to beware are much diffe…
God is just like you and me " genial, well-meaning, chatty and, while omniscient and omnipotent, also flawed enough to make universe-shaking mistakes. At least that's the God that actor Tom …
Sometimes stage theatricality more effectively thrusts you inside the head of someone completely alien to your own experience than the hyper-reality of a film is able to convey. A prime exam…
When Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the context o…
Oddly, for all the technical artistry that the assembled talents are displaying in Florida Grand Opera's thoroughly satisfying 10th run at Georges Bizet's deathlessly popular masterwork, it …
Thomas Wolfe warned that you can't go home again, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's revival of its 2012 production of Avenue Q is a welcome and joyful return to the neighborhood and the ol' ga…
Sweet Charity is a fundamentally flawed showcase that virtually no one has ever pulled off satisfyingly, but Broward Stage Door director Michael Leeds makes a solid enough stab at it that a …
Charlie Cinnamon, the beloved dean of South Florida publicity agents whose work over a half-century helped transform the region's cultural landscape and national profile, died Thursday morni…