Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Long Night’s Journey Into Day: The 24-Hour Theatre Project
It’s likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gunpoint. In other words, the sixth 24 Hour Theatre Project benefiting The Naked Stage has now melted in ephemeral history other than some digital photos and dog-eared scripts.
Art Transforms Lives In Thinking Cap Theatre’s Haunting The Drawer Boy
The bonds of friendship and the power of art to transform lives are illustrated in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, now receiving a lovely production at Thinking Cap Theatre in Fort Lauderdale.
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s American Premiere Of His New Antony and Cleopatra At GableStage In 2014
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Miami-raised playwright who has forged an international reputation, is bringing a new Haitian-flavored adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to GableStage in January 2014. The American premiere will be sandwiched between its world debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 2013 and its subsequent co-production at The Public Theater in New York City in late January 2014.
GableStage’s Venus In Fur Reveals Dazzling Dual Performance By Betsy Graver
In the case of GableStage’s production of the message comedy about sexual politics, Venus In Fur, the only thing to be certain of is the stunning performance by Betsy Graver.
Miami Theater Center Plans Three Sisters To Move Audience In More Than One Way
By Bill Hirschman What will likely have people talking as they walk into the Miami Theater Center this weekend for its new adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters is where they’ll sit: a black riser taking up a third of the …
Alliance’s roomies Is A Welcome Entry Of, By And For A New Generation Of Theatergoers
Alliance Theatre Lab’s world premiere “roomies” by Mark Della Ventura is a welcome entry in the fledgling development of a South Florida theater of, by and for young adults that focuses on their concerns, references their cultural touchstones and reflects their attitudes – not to mention giving them an artistic outlet that they can’t find in mainstream venues.
The Naked Stage’s A Man Puts On A Play Is Antonio Amadeo’s Audacious And Ambitious Entry
The first hour of meta-theater in A Man Writes A Play in which students build a set, will fascinate civilians and amuse veterans and serves as the delightful curtain raiser to the more traditional scripted second act, an engaging and intriguing world premiere written, produced, designed, directed and co-starring Antonio Amadeo in a feat reminiscent of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater productions on stage and in film.
Entrances & Exits in SoFlorida Openings & Closings Nov. 7-13
Openings Nov. 9-Dec. 2 roomies Alliance Theatre Lab at Main Street Playhouse 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes (305) 259-0418 thealliancetheatrelab.com Mark Della Ventura’s world premiere about five 20-somethings, who all just graduated from a four-year acting conservatory, in a …
Million Dollar Quartet Rocks The House: Four Musical Legends Come to Life
The roots of rock and roll are encapsulated in Million Dollar Quartet, a rollicking yet poignant musical about one historic night in Memphis when four country boys turned icons sang and played their way into history.
Diva-licious: In TWTP’s Delval Divas, Crime Pays Very Well
Well-heeled society matrons, now inmates in prison for white collar crimes, is the premise of Delval Divas, a comedy by Barbara Pease Weber, which is getting a fun and frothy treatment by The Women’s Theatre Project
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