2,671 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
An unusual theatrical presentation, at least for South Florida, will encourage the audience to walk freely around the performers in The Conquest of the South Pole slated to be performed at T…
When The Women's Theatre Project leaders announced in February that they had lost their performing space in Fort Lauderdale, some pessimists feared its unique voice would slide into limbo. B…
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…
Cleanup of the watery aftermath of a burst pipe joint will continue at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week, but it is not expected to interfere with the next performance of Th…
Or Coming To A Theater Near You (Or Not) By Bill Hirschman Welcome to our semi-annual scouting trip for shows likely to appear in South Florida in a local production or national tour —…
New Theatre, which weathered eviction from its Coral Gables home late last year, has announced two world premieres and a late night program as part of its upcoming season at its new home at …
Seeing life through the prism of offbeat characters such as the oddballs populating the absurdist comedy Love Burns sometimes helps us perceive the modern world more clearly than any natural…
Floridians can see London/Broadway shows (kind of) without paying for a plane ticket. A film of the original London incarnation of the current New York comedy hit, One Man, Two Guv'nors is p…
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes that staple, the dysfunctional family drama, and amps up the thematic value by linking the group's shortcomings to the social-political…
As the music swelled Monday at Outré Theatre Company's concert production of tick…tick…BOOM!, a thought kept interfering with my becoming completely lost in Jonathan Larson's chamber m…
Steven Dietz's insightful script, David Arisco's assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky's New…
The "S.S. Barry Manilow" songbook I Am Music! has tied up at the new Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. Your reaction to this entry depends precisely on your enjoyment of the cruise ship level of …
Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater …
The Closet, a play by Miami writer Richard Janaro, gets a reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables.
Gordon McConnell, Billy Bell and Beverly Blanchette have been honored for their achievements in the arts by the Judith Lanier Waldrop Frank and Randolph Adams Frank Foundation
As unassailable as television actress Nicole Ari Parker is as the wounded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, Emily Mann's production of A Streetcar Named Desire leaps like it was hit with a cat…
Hamlet, Prince of Cuba is a new version adapted in English by Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and translated into Spanish by N…
By Bill Hirschman Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a gentle message comedy about lonely people reaching out somewhat obliquely for human contact. But this occasionally charming pas de deux …
Donald Margulies' drama Time Stands Still which enjoys a solid production at GableStage is not a thrilling or enthralling production; it's one that keeps you thinking long after the lights c…
End of the Rainbow is an unsparing, but somewhat compassionate portrait of her final months as she lurches through a five-week gig in London's. The play itself wears the audience down with t…
The Merry Month of May " Late Additions There are a lot of updates in the calendar and theater-going opportunities for the region. –M Ensemble's Jar The Floor slated to open May 3 has …
Or Coming To A Theater Near You (Or Not) By Bill Hirschman Welcome to our semi-annual scouting trip for shows likely to appear in South Florida in a local production or a national tour ̵…
The msuic of the Broadway show Once is affecting, often lovely and occasionally haunting. However, if you expect an Original Broadway Cast album to give you a glimpse into a theatrical exper…
The terrific 1992 film that this musical Leap of Faith is based on contains a roof-raising gospel number with the lyric: "Are you ready for a miracle?" That's exactly what's needed with this…
There couldn't be a more fitting space for The House Theatre of Chicago to bring its production of Death and Harry Houdini to South Florida than the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne …
