Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Evening Star’s Song Cycle 35MM Propelled By Urban Angst
35MM and this production require some effort from the audience to meet it more than halfway. It is, as they say, not for everyone’s taste. But it does represent an intriguing example of the current effort by young theater artists to find new ways to create their own brand of musical theater that speaks to them. In that, Evening Star’s 35MM is worth checking out.
Not Your Grandma’s Theater: The 2015-2016 Season In SoFla
South Florida theaters still mount familiar warhorses, but the 2015-2016 season is proof that companies realize the future of theater is to attract pre-retirement audiences with shows steaming fresh out of Manhattan, edgy intellectually challenging works, imaginative takes on familiar titles, regional premieres of shows you only read about in The New York Times over the past few years and some shows you have never heard of, period.
Hirschman’s Solely Subjective Summation Of Shows That Shouldn’t Be Missed
These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don’t care. These are the shows we most want to see for a variety of reasons.
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Picnic Discovers New Insights in Inge’s Lumbering 1953 Classic
With its novelistic heft, lumbering pace and large cast, the 1953 Picnic is a product of its time. But rather than reproduce a propulsive Picnic for impatient 21st century audiences, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ interpretation deftly colors around the edges of the main storyline, spelunking the script’s peripheral action for new revelations about Inge’s mid-century, middle-class, Middle-American strivers.
Intoxicating Once Is Immersive Theater; Tour Is A Must See
Folksy, intimate, and warmly fulfilling, the national tour of the musical Once is as intoxicating as a shot of Irish whiskey. The buzz remains long after the hummable Falling Slowly reprise at the Broward Center.
Dan Kelley Named Artistic Director At Broward Stage Door
Dan Kelley, the tall rubber-faced actor-director who has been a fixture in South Florida musicals for nearly 30 years, has been named artistic director of Broward Stage Door.
Hot Button Issues Dissected In GableStage’s Fine Disgraced
Awash in issues of Arab-American assimilation and Anglo antipathy, GableStage’s Disgraced is the classic contemporary example of the topical, thought-provoking drama that forces you to revalidate, even reexamine your perception of the tumult around us.
Thinking Cap’s Map Of Virtue Spins Weird Tale Of Chills, Metaphors And Deep Thought
If you like your theater schematic, clear-cut and requiring little cogitation, you will absolutely hate A Map of Virtue. But if you don’t mind wrestling with a production while it’s underway, if you enjoy trying to dope out what it meant on the ride home, then Thinking Cap’s production may well intrigue, perplex and unsettle you if you let it.
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