Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Jim Brochu’s Character Man Is Affectionate Amble Through Broadway’s Past And Its Pros
If you’ve dreamed of sitting in the upstairs bar of Sardi’s to hear journeymen trade war stories about Broadway’s past, you can get a taste at Jim Brochu’s new one-man show, Character Man. The veteran New York actor-playwright, who triumphed in 2009 with Zero Hour, spends a couple of acts at Broward Stage Door recollecting his meetings with famous and not-as-famous stalwarts from Jackie Gleason to Jack Gilford, Zero Mostel to David Burns.
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.
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..
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.
On The Boards Podcast: FAU’s Richard Gamble Talks About Summer Rep And Theater Education in the 21st Century
Bill Hirschman’s interview with FAU Associate Professor Richard Gamble who talks at length about FAU’s 27th Summer Festival Rep (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Side By Side By Sondheim and The Man Who Came To Dinner) and looks more generally at how theater arts is being taught on the collegiate level.
Slow Burn’s Wedding Singer May Be A Trifle But It’s A Cute Hoot
fSlow Burn Theatre Company’s daffy production of the summer trifle The Wedding Singer feels like a sweet, sloppy kiss from a scruffy dog that could really use a trip to the groomer, but who’s lovable all the same. What this silly smile of a show undeniably lacks in polish and consistency, its cast makes up for with grinning enthusiasm and goofball abandon
Conundrum Celebrates Five Years With Weekend Festival
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth year as a low-key presenter of staged readings in South Florida this weekend with Five So Far: The Conundrum Stages Anthology, a retrospective showcase of offerings drawn from its past seasons.
Adam Who? Slow Burn’s The Wedding Singer And Clay Cartland Do It Their Way
There’s not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which opens Friday for a brief two-weekend run in Boca Raton.
Veteran Playwrights Gather For Seminars At CityWrights
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference for professional and aspiring playwrights as well plus entertainment lawyers and arts educators.
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