2,671 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
For immigrants wrestling with cultural assimilation, salvation lies not in burying the past life, but coming to terms with its baggage and its ghosts. Playwright Barbara Lebow illustrated he…
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 …
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 …
These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at [email protected] and we'll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Actors…
The ever-morphing statuses and a lack of historical records guarantee that the following lists will be incomplete or even inaccurate. If you have additional or more accurate information, ple…
The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what's happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer's hot-and-cold reception of Kee…
Florida Theater On Stage is taking a step back in the brief lull in the season to analyze the present and future of South Florida theater in some depth. We're celebrating our first anniversa…
Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts " and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks reve…
By Bill Hirschman The dog days of South Florida theater have resembled greyhounds rather than bassets. But the advent of Labor Day weekend ratchets up the pace once again. * Quick note: …
Nancy Barnett, the former managing director of Florida Stage, has taken a job as executive director of Actors' Express Theatre in Atlanta effective immediately.
In Irving Berlin Salutes America at The Plaza Theatre, four capable performers plus the pianist/ arranger delivered the musical equivalent of a familiar old down comforter and a hot toddy fo…
You're invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you're invited. You don't have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very ex…
Island City Stage's The Twentieth Century Way is an intellectual theater game worthy of Pirandello or Stoppard in which facets swirl at such a dizzying speed that individual ideas become too…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
The Company Company, a group of current and former New World School of the Arts students, is holding its fourth annual New Play Project comprised of short works written, acted and directed b…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
About 200 arts organization in Miami-Dade County will split an unexpected $1.5 million this fall because of a rebound in tourism, Mayor Carlos Gimenez told an elated crowd of arts administra…
Empire Stage, the vest pocket theater next to the railroad tracks at 1140 N. Flagler in Fort Lauderdale, is becoming a popular center for staged readings as well as temporary digs for small,…
A colleague recently referred to Gregg Weiner as South Florida's Gene Hackman " always working, highly-respected, focused, intense, funny, an actor who brings a character actor's technique t…
The Donkey Show, the cross between Studio 54 and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, has been extended one week, and special deals have been added.
Built around a superb performance by Paulette Dozier, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill mounted at Broward Stage Door intersperses more than a dozen Holiday classics with the jazz chant…
Sometimes it seems George Gershwin isn't gone at all. Even now, Broadway is blessed with the revival of Porgy and Bess and the new Nice Work If You Can Get It. In regional theater, hardly a …
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James' psychological thriller gets a superbly accomplished production as The Naked Stage's first outing in almost two years featuring flawless performances by Ka…
Playwrights Paul Tei and Jessica Farr's Hamlet Dog and Pony Show at ad Cat Theatreis a stylized mashup of Shakespeare, Brecht and 21st Century performance art that examines existentialism v…
