Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
I Love Lucy Stage Show Just Can’t Recapture The Original
I Love Lucy® Live On Stage is mildly amusing, mildly humorous, mildly pleasant and very mildly entertaining — phrases never attached to Lucille Ball or I Love Lucy. There is little evidence of the irrepressible vitality and downright hilarity of Lucy to be found in this reasonably well-intentioned, well-acted and well-produced offering.
Actors Playhouse Rips Into Auditorium For Murder Ballad
Some patrons might be a tad uncomfortable at Murder Ballad at Actors Playhouse. After all, a lovesick swain likely will pour his heart out while standing on a chair a few inches away from an audience member’s face. A ticket buyer may find herself within spitting distance of a sweaty couple trying to kill each other.
Slideshow: First Steps Turning Actors’ Playhouse’s Upstairs House Into A Bar
Actors’ Playhouse’s crew spent weeks ripping up its second floor balcony theater and reconfiguring it for its upcoming production of the noirish musical Murder Ballad, set in a dark East Village bar. See a slideshow of the work here.
Emotional Ravages, Changing Attitudes To Homosexuality In GableStage’s Mothers And Sons
GableStage’s production of Terrence McNally’s script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades earlier are ripped open again. And it depicts the process of rending apart the psychic scab in unforgiving real time.
Wildly Uneven But Creepily Intriguing Veronica’s Room
Halloween has arrived early with a wildly uneven but strangely intriguing production of Ira Levin’s 1973 exercise in creepiness, Veronica’s Room at Andrews Living Arts. The evening never quite lands as a whole, but there are undeniably flashes and even long stretches that do justice to Levin’s attempt to make the audience wonder what is real and exactly who is crazy.
News Briefs: City Theatre Reads Possible Summer Shorts Tonight, Lake Worth Needs A Floor, Pussycat To Purr Extra Weeks
News about Summer Shorts reading potential plays tonight, Lake Worth Playhouse fundraiser and Stage door extends run of What’s New Pussycat
Evening Star’s The Subject Was Roses Needs A Few More Thorns
Evening Star Production’s The Subject Was Roses underscores the insightful script, but the valiant effort leaves far too much crucial passion AWOL.
Conundrum Stages Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Its Ghost Light Series Readings
Conundrum Stages has been working quietly on the edges of the South Florida theater scene for so long that it’s both surprising and not surprising to hear that their current project this month, the Ghost Light Series, marks its 10th anniversary in Broward County celebrated with consecutive weekends of different works.
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