2,670 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Mosaic Theatre, one of the most respected theater companies in the region, is closing immediately, a decision made Monday by its board of directors, according to an announcement Sunday night…
A nameless terror has upended the fragile homeostasis in Agnes and Tobias' carefully-ordered uppercrust existence, all the more frightening because its anonymity makes it uncomfortably unive…
Actors Playhouse director David Arisco teasingly asks the reporter doing a story on the upcoming musical The Last Five Years, "Don't you want to take a picture of our Broadway star?' His jok…
If you've ever kicked in the chorus line of a community theater production of Mame, you'll likely adore Showtime Performing Arts Theatre's [title of show]. But if you've ever secretly practi…
New Theatre's production of Robert Caisley's sardonically titled Happy is not an evening you "like" watching an "emotional terrorist" spend 80 minutes mercilessly carving away a nebbish's il…
Darkness has often been an element of classic Christmas stories: A Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. But leave it to the House Theatre of Chicago…
By Bill Hirschman Know this, the Maltz Jupiter Theater's production of The Music Man  is what the American musical theater used to be. Joyful as a teenager skipping home after a first kis…
A con man has come to north Palm Beach County to steal your money. His name's not Bernie Madoff; it's Harold Hill. Well, actually, it's the effervescent triple-threat performer Matt Loehr we…
Details on Theater League Holiday Party The time, date and place have been set for the South Florida Theatre League’s annual holiday party and membership meeting: 7:30-10 p.m. Monday, …
It shouldn't work. Not anymore. Not in the 21st Century. That time-worn plot, the one-dimensional characters, the unabashed sentiment. But Florida Grand Opera's production of La bohème unde…
Tragedy suffused opening night at Outré Theatre Company's inaugural production of the dark musical The Wild Party, but it wasn't the story of Jazz Age hedonists plummeting through a doomed …
Some troupes ease into existence with a modest, surefire and frugal first full production. Not Outré Theater Company. South Florida's newest professional company bows Friday with Andrew Lip…
Miami Theater Center's inaugural adult project, a fresh vision of Chekhov's Three Sisters, is not a smoothly gelling work of art, let alone entertainment. The flaws are considerable, persist…
Cannily, there is not a feather in sight during the entire 85-minute The Birds at the Mosaic Theatre -- appropriate because the subject is not an eerie avian apocalypse, but how humanity rea…
Someone Must Have Said, "Macbeth" Backstage The opening of Broward Stage Door's return engagement of the bittersweet comedy Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks was postponed last week when actres…
Once upon the 1960s, there existed theatrical offerings on Broadway unapologetically called the tired businessman's musical. They were well-made, well-executed but unassuming diversions that…
Comic actor Don McArt, visually memorable for his short stature and prominent ears, as well as his frequent appearances with his sister Jan McArt, died Tuesday in a hospice in Boca Raton.
It's likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gunpo…
The bonds of friendship and the power of art to transform lives are illustrated in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, now receiving a lovely production at Thinking Cap Theatre in Fort Lauderd…
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Miami-raised playwright who has forged an international reputation, is bringing a new Haitian-flavored adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra to GableSta…
In the case of GableStage's production of the message comedy about sexual politics, Venus In Fur, the only thing to be certain of is the stunning performance by Betsy Graver.
By Bill Hirschman What will likely have people talking as they walk into the Miami Theater Center this weekend for its new adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters is where they'll sit: a black…
Alliance Theatre Lab's world premiere "roomies" by Mark Della Ventura is a welcome entry in the fledgling development of a South Florida theater of, by and for young adults that focuses on t…
The first hour of meta-theater in A Man Writes A Play in which students build a set, will fascinate civilians and amuse veterans and serves as the delightful curtain raiser to the more trad…
Openings Nov. 9-Dec. 2 roomies Alliance Theatre Lab at Main Street Playhouse 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes (305) 259-0418 thealliancetheatrelab.com Mark Della Ventura's world premiere…