Monthly Archives: July 2013

Actors Playhouse Rated P For Parenthood Is Frothy Fun

Rated P For Parenthood at Actors Playhouse is a 90-minute hoot that bowed off-Broadway last year strings together almost 30 vignettes that chronologically trace the joys and absurdities of raising a child from conception to empty nesting.

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Bill Hirschman
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Dramaworks’ Man of La Mancha Is Far More Than Staged Concert

Beautifully sung, passionately acted and staged with as much movement and business as anyone can ask of a limited rehearsal period, Palm Beach Dramawortks’ concert version mines much of the beauty and heart from one of the most glorious scores and emotionally-affecting scripts in American musical theater.

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Bill Hirschman
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Zero Hour’s Jim Brochu Honors Broadway’s Character Men In One-Man Musical Memoir

Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu — best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour — wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly.. So Brochu created a new one-man musical, Character Man, that bows Thursday for a month-long run at Broward Stage Door..

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Bill Hirschman
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New Theatre Stages 16 Short Plays In Miami 1-Acts Festival

While some people may be broiling in the sun this holiday weekend, New Theatre is offering a cooler alternative with its inexpensive fund-raising program: its summer edition of the Miami 1-Acts Festival (M1A).These stagings of 16 one-act plays, mostly by local playwrights and writers whose works have appeared before at New Theatre, are in two different programs Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the possibility of seeing both on Sunday.

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Bill Hirschman
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