2,671 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
By Bill Hirschman If Florida Power & Light is looking for an auxiliary source of energy to forestall  another rate request , perhaps they simply ought to follow around the national to…
Is there a better high for a theater artist than to return home starring in a national tour of a hit Broadway show? Ask Miami native Dominique "Dom" Scott. When the Miami native takes the Ar…
I Am My Own Wife is so fascinating and on so many levels that long after actor Tom Wahl ascends the short staircase and exits through the double doors at the end of the one-person play, ther…
Audiences often marvel at actors' ability to memorize long speeches and complex dialogue. But few memorization jobs are as daunting as that of I Am My Own Wife. When Tom Wahl stands alone fo…
Openings and Closings Opening this week: Oct. 4-21 I Am My Own Wife Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami (305) 741-3180 zoeticstage.com Do…
Students cannot say theater tickets are too expensive. Culture Shock Miami has resumed offering $5 tickets to high school and college students " less than a movie matinee. Starting this week…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of A.R. Gurney's comedy has some virtues starting with a delightful performance from Jacqueline Laggy and an admirably solid one from Patti Gardner. But…
Despite the raunchy discussion of every kind of sex, the flamboyantly omnisexual emcee, and, oh yes, the title " The All-American Genderf**k Cabaret " this irreverent satire from Thinking Ca…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
Openings and Closings This Week Opening this week: Sept. 28-Oct. 14 Sylvia The Boca Raton Theatre Guild Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park 300 South Military Trail, Boca Raton (561) 347-3948 …
Dampened by storms earlier this fall, Ground Up & Rising, is fulfilling its commitment to a series of free outdoor performances at 10 a.m. this Sunday, Sept. 30, with a bare bones readi…
By Bill Hirschman Zoetic Stage, the loose collective of actors, directors and playwrights, has extended its commitment to new work by joining the National New Play Network  as an associat…
The deteriorating orbit into insanity is tracked with impressive skill and infinite variety in Ken Clement's bravura tour de force as the government drone Poprishchin under Richard Jay Simo…
Part One More than a few people were disappointed when the Caldwell Theatre closed its doors last spring before producing the final play of the season, Our Lady of Allapattah by Miami playwr…
The 2012-2013 season of South Florida theater promises a continued arc toward more new works and thought-provoking titles ripped fresh off the New York stages, sprinkled with enough perennia…
For nearly two decades, Amy London has been a fixture of South Florida theater: behind the director's table, wearing a stage manager's headset, acting, leading the Fort Lauderdale Players, h…
What continues to enchant critics who have to see more productions of Steel Magnolias than most civilians is what a truly funny, finely observed and genuinely touching script that Robert Har…
Last Minute News: Two Shows M Ensemble Company is launching a new play series this weekend only with Hate! An American Love Story, a one-woman piece written and performed by local actress Ch…
Two Florida men who by chance sat next to each other at the Holocaust play at Broward Stage Door, A Shayna Maidel, discovered they had been in the same forced labor camp during World War II.
The script of Dutchman, Amiri Bakara's classic 1964 play of racial and sexual politics, crackles with the explosive rage that Langston Hughes' predicted in "A Dream Deferred." The fact that …
Stage Combat Violence, the ultimate expression of dramatic conflict, has long been a staple of theater, going back to the days of Og the Caveman retelling his war exploits around the fire. T…
GableStage's powerful Ruined examines our species' simultaneous capacity for a bottomless cruelty absent in animals and an inextinguishable humanity that borders on divinity. This engrossing…
[box_full] Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists,…
A group of loopy scenarios fuel eight daffy short plays by local playwrights thumbing their nose at Death in an often funny if markedly uneven collection commissioned by the Alliance Theatre…
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
