Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Reimagined Little Mermaid Is Family-Friendly Celebration
Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s new family-friendly adaptation of The Little Mermaid bears little resemblance to Disney’s animated film or Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy tale. Theatre Lab’s production at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is a playful and imaginative celebration of family unity, courage and following your heart.
Hampton House’s Place In Black History Seen Via Family Play
Veteran Black actor-playwright Keith C. Wade returns to a Miami landmark to theatrically track how the civil rights movement transformed yet undercut the thriving Brownsville-Overtown —a journey seen through the memories of his parents in “The Last Sun of the Hampton House.”
Die Mommie, Die! Over-the-Top Hilarity on Island City Stage
When is the last time you went to the theater and enjoyed two hours of pure unadulterated fun and sheer frivolity? Die Mommie, Die! is that rare breed of entertainment that exists just for the camp of it. Trust us when we say there’s no message here. And that’s just the way it should be in Island City Stage’s production.
Break A Leg: Loxen To Stage ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
If South Florida’s Loxen Entertainment, Inc. does its job well during the nonprofit company’s season-opening show, the actors will seem inept. Indeed, appearing incompetent is the goal for the season opener…and no, that’s not a misprint.
Carbonell Awards And Silver Palms Announce Fall Plans
With the end of summer, the season of South Florida awards galas inches closer, marked by two announcements: the Silver Palms Awards sets a date for announcing the upcoming recipients at a special fundraiser in September; and the Carbonell Awards which has set a November 11 event date now reveals the recipients of its annual “special” awards.
Maltz’s New “The Island Theatre” Space Aims To Diversify Scope
By Bill Hirschman / It is not an imposing space. It is just space. Often blank. Like a canvas waiting for something. But in a few months, magic brewing 10 years at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre will transform that featureless The Island Theatre into Ruth Westheimer’s apartment crammed with memorabilia and the cluttered home of Albee’s George and Martha.
Carbonell Awards Revise Judging/ Scoring System
By Bill Hirschman // Rules how Carbonell Awards are judged were revised this week in response to concerns from theaters and community volunteers about the need to fine-tune the complex mathematics of the results.
A Celebration of Love in A Shonda at the Foundry
By Britin Haller Those lovestruck kids and their warring families in Romeo and Juliet have nothing on the gay couple and their ultra-conservative parental figures in A Shonda, a premiere of a new musical now running at The Foundry in …
Hundred Days Shows the Power of Love
By Oline H. Cogdill Love—no matter how strong, how all-encompassing, how overwhelming—can never last forever, even if we are sure it will. Death, a forced separation, a mental breakdown—all kinds of things can conspire to end that most wonderful of …
Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!: Sweet and Whacky
by Raquel V. Reyes Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!, written and directed by award-winning screenwriter Rick Najera, is billed as an interactive comedic experience. Although it doesn’t fully live up to that interactive promise. Sweet 15 My Quinceañera! is messy fun …
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