2,671 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
City Theatre will begin accepting ten-minute play scripts next month for consideration for production in its annual Summer Shorts festival, highlighted by its National Award for Short Playwr…
Audience members have few joys as pungent as discovery. Which brings us to the fledgling Outré Theatre Company and Tuesday night's staged reading of the ink-black comic drama Dog Sees God: …
South Florida playwrights Jessica Farr and Paul Tei hope that for all the philosophical profundity and political comment, their world premiere of The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show on July 26 deli…
—Illness delayed the opening of Naked Stage's production of The Turn of the Screw at the Pelican Theatre at Barry University. But it’s ready to go with a run now scheduled for Ju…
By Bill Hirschman Reviewing The Donkey Show is irrelevant. The immersive multi-media experience at the Arsht Center joyfully cross-dressing as spectacle-drenched theater is about surrender, …
The Arsht Center is laying a six-figure bet on The Donkey Show, a very loose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream transmuted into the glitz and glitter of Studio 54. A hybrid of theater and …
Kim Ehly's touching and rollicking play Baby GirL, the inaugural effort of her newly-minted Katumba Theatre Project in association with Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale,is a wryly comic look …
The world premiere musical comedy Real Men Sing Show Tunes…and play with puppets lazing through the summer at Actors' Playhouse reveals men's deepest darkest secrets, namely life-long conf…
By Bill Hirschman A gentle, compassionate smile at human folly suffuses The Fantasticks when it's produced as well as Palm Beach Dramaworks has. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's classic chambe…
If you wonder just how small the theater world is, consider how Paul Paul Ben-Victor's play This Little Jew Girl has found its way to a free reading at GableStage at 7:30 p.m. Monday with Be…
Unlikely but perhaps, secretly, Antonio Amadeo is actually a nasty misanthrope, but no one will ever believe it. Amadeo is widely-regarded as one of the nicest guys and quietly talented memb…
So much for the myth of the summer doldrums…. Besides recent and imminent openings at Mad Cat, Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage, Actors Playhouse, the XXVII International Hispanic Theatre…
About 150 friends and alumni of the Royal Palm Dinner Theater gathered Sunday evening at the Count de Hoernle Theater in Boca Raton to honor actress, producer, director and impresario Jan …
Lawyers banter about innocence and justice in David Mamet's incendiary play at GableStage, but the characters don't bother to dissect long-decided issues about how the judicial system's saus…
With brilliant but unrelieved corrosive cynicism, Cabaret Verborten, ausical revue at the Theatre at Arts Garage, mercilessly draws unnerving parallels between the dissolute Weimar Republic …
More than 400 free tickets to theatrical productions across South Florida are being offered as part of the Summer Free Fest Night being sponsored as an audience building program by the South…
Mark Harelik's The Immigrant, at Broward Stage Door Theatre, has a universal message at it's core, a fish-out-of-water story that engages the audience in the journey.
William Hayes, producing artistic director of Palm Beach Dramaworks, has been elected president of the Florida Professional Theatres Association , a group designed to encourage companies to …
Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs presents a super-energized rendition of the nostalgic musical Backwards In High Heels that follows the life of Ginger Rogers.
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature by our reviewer Brad Hathaway, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cas…
The Ghost Light Series returns with different performances of theatrical readings at 8 p.m. each Tuesday next month beginning July 10 under the auspices of Conundrum Stages. Admission is fre…
New Theatre has a long tradition of promoting new works; now new works return the favor as 14 playwrights donate their efforts at a July 6-8 benefit for the Miami-Dade company dubbed the Mia…
Miami Stage Door's first season closer, Deathtrap, is a serviceable if not outstanding edition that understands Ira Levin's black comedy, appreciates his Swiss watchmaker's plotting and bene…
A goofball sensibility drenches Slow Burn Theatre Company's first summer froth-fest, the loopy lampoon of the flop movie musical Xanadu. To be truthful, the company was far funnier, crisper …
By Bill Hirschman As the two men eloquently pledge their lives and their loves to each other in the moving vows that close Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, theater reasserts its…
