Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Maltz’s Amadeus Luxuriates In Highly Theatrical Storytelling
Maltz Jupiter theatergoers need to manage their expectations of next week’s run of the play Amadeus, better known for the film about the mediocre composer Salieri’s rivalry with Mozart. Peter Shaffer’s masterpiece is not just different, it’s better. Regardless of the quality of the production, it is a different work of art, said director Michael Gieleta and star Tom Bloom who plays the narrator and audience surrogate Salieri.
Plaza’s Driving Miss Daisy Driven By Veteran Hands
The most affecting moments in the Plaza Theatre’s solid, entertaining production of the venerable Driving Miss Daisy are the fleeting grace notes that have no dialogue, moments that result from being in the capable hands of old pros.
New Theatre’s Educating Rita Is Graded An Underachiever
It’s not encouraging when all through New Theatre’s production of Educating Rita you keep thinking what a great script Willy Russell wrote. This edition sloughs listlessly in the opening 45 minutes or so and really only begins to be mildly engaging near the end of the first act.
Entrances & Exits This Week / Openings & Closings
Opening this week: Oct. 18-Nov. 18 Driving Miss Daisy Plaza Theatre 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan (former Florida Stage site) (561) 588-1820 www.theplazatheatre.net The Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of the long-standing relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and …
Caldwell Building “Sold” To Mortgage Holder; Cholerton Says Theater Company Is Done
UPDATED AT 6 P.M. By Bill Hirschman The gleaming building that symbolized the Caldwell Theatre Company’s hard-fought dreams was sold at a foreclosure auction at 11:17 a.m. today, but its circumstances didn’t change because the winning bidder was the bank …
Era Ends With Caldwell Theatre At Cyberspace Auction Tuesday
The interested parties aren’t the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company built goes on the cyberspace auction block Tuesday, court records hold out little hope that the facility will end up hosting Shakespeare or Conor McPherson. More likely, the Boca Raton property will revert back to the bank that reluctantly holds two mortgages on the property and anxiously seeks a buyer, the records indicate.
A Question & Answer Interview With Michael Hall
Caldwell Theatre Company co-founder Michael Hall stepped down as artistic director in 2009, and has been travelling and writing ever since. But he returned to the Caldwell in February 2011 to direct the drama Last Fall. In an email interview …
New Briefs: 24 Hour Theatre Project Names Participants; Martinez Directing In Virginia
The All Night Strut The preliminary lineup of masochists has been announced for The Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012, currently slated for 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, hosted at GableStage. The sixth annual fundraiser for the tiny company is always …
Godspell Gets Another Fresh Makeover at Actors’ Playhouse
The sparse crowd Saturday night at Actors Playhouse must be a result of people thinking, “Oh, I like it well enough, but I’ve seen Godspell.” But they’d be wrong, to their loss. This earnest troupe led by director David Arisco has reinterpreted and re-imagined for the umpteenth time the venerable warhorse so that it seems fresh and familiar at the same time.
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