Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
AAPACT Dutchman Starts Too Slowly; Finishes In Blazing Anger
The script of Dutchman, Amiri Bakara’s classic 1964 play of racial and sexual politics, crackles with the explosive rage that Langston Hughes’ predicted in “A Dream Deferred.” The fact that this production doesn’t find that passion or electricity until two-thirds of the way through the 40-minute play doesn’t prevent the audience from appreciating Bakara’s themes or enjoying the laudable aspirations of the ambitious production.
News: The Mormons Are Coming and Violence In Theater
Stage Combat Violence, the ultimate expression of dramatic conflict, has long been a staple of theater, going back to the days of Og the Caveman retelling his war exploits around the fire. The way violence is represented in theater is …
GableStage’s Ruined Is Powerful Tale of Atrocities and Suvival
GableStage’s powerful Ruined examines our species’ simultaneous capacity for a bottomless cruelty absent in animals and an inextinguishable humanity that borders on divinity. This engrossing rendition of Lynn Nottage’s play about people struggling to survive the hellish civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo also has a duality. It is one of the finest pieces of local theater seen this season, featuring superb acting, notably from Lela Elam as an indomitable owner of a bar/brothel.
And Make Our Garden Grow: Finding The Solutions…
By Bill Hirschman In the film Shakespeare In Love, the producer says theater’s “natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster… Strangely enough, it all turns out well.” When asked how, he says, “I …
Alliance’s Home Sweet Funeral Home Is Imaginative If Uneven
A group of loopy scenarios fuel eight daffy short plays by local playwrights thumbing their nose at Death in an often funny if markedly uneven collection commissioned by the Alliance Theatre Lab entitled Home Sweet Funeral Home.
And Make Our Garden Grow: Finding The Solutions
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
Ya Got Trouble Right Here in River City: The Challenges
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
On the Wheels of a Dream South Florida Theater: What It Is And What It Can Be
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today
Currently Operating Theaters and Producers – Fall 2012
These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at bill@floridatheateronstage.com and we’ll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Actors Playhouse on the Miracle Mile, Coral Gables Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Company, West Palm Beach Adrienne Arsht …
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