Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Arsht Bonds with Zoetic, House, U of Miami & Alliance For Theater Up Close Next Season
Theater Up Close, the series co-produced by the Arsht Center, has announced a 2012-2013 season partnering with the home-grown Zoetic Stage, the University of Miami’s theater department, the House Theatre of Chicago and, for the first time, the Alliance Theatre Lab of Miami Lakes.
New Theatre & Nilo Cruz’s Bicycle Country Is Moving Gem
The quality of New Theatre’s work is famously variable, but every season or so, they deliver a moving, finely crafted gem of theater to be unreservedly proud about. In this case, it’s the production of Nilo Cruz’s, A Bicycle Country, a lyrical tragedy about three friends who escape Cuba on a raft.
Mosaic’s Edge Of Our Bodies Is Provocative If Confusing Drama
Playwright Adam Rapp shares Beckett’s indifference to whether audiences comprehend his idiosyncratic depiction of his dark vision. But in Mosaic Theatre’s The Edge of Our Bodies, he also is writing something of weight and worth, even if you’re not at all certain what it is.
Which brings us to Rapp’s The Edge of Our Bodies closing out Mosaic Theatre’s season. This extended monologue by a high school girl reading from her journal and acting out what she has written is by turns illuminating and opaque, precise and equivocal, comprehensible and incomprehensible.
Island City (nee Rising Action) and Naked Stage Resurface, Arts Garage Mounts Musical
After an unnerving series of losses, several low-key announcements provide some encouraging news this week for the South Florida theater scene: Rising Action Theatre has succeeded in resurrecting itself as Island City Theatre with a production scheduled for August and hopes for another in the late fall. Naked Stage, which has been in hiatus for nearly a year and half, is preparing shows for July and next winter.
Caldwell Facility Rented Out To Entr’Acte Theatrix Troupe For July Show of J.C. Superstar
The Caldwell Theatre Company remains locked out of the Count de Hoernle Theater, but the Boca Raton facility will reopen in July for a production of Jesus Christ Superstar by Entr’acte Executrix and Palm Beach Principal Players. The court receiver also revealed Monday that he had been in separate discussions with “multiple” Palm Beach entities intrigued by the idea of a long-ter.m lease
Royal Palm Theatre Alumni & Fans To Honor Jan McArt
A Facebook fan page for former employees of the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre has led to a planned reunion of employees, supporters, fans and friends to honor founder Jan McArt on July 8 connected to the production of Jesus Christ Superstar by Entr’acte Executrix and Palm Beach Principal Players.
Mosaic’s New Season: Bengal Tiger, Conor McPherson, Madman (Not Mad Men) And The Old Reliable TBA
Mosaic Theatre continues its pirouette along the leading edge of modern drama with the announcements of its 2012-2013 season that includes two works by up-and-comer Rajiv Joseph playing in repertory, a new work by Conor McPherson and an acclaimed modern adaptation of Gogol’s classic The Diary of a Madman.
Report From New York: Lithgow’s Turn As The Columnist Is A Report From 1963
How do handle an era which is vibrantly alive in the memories of older audience members yet only an antiseptic chapter in a textbook to younger audiences? David Auburn’s play The Columnist does not mean to deal directly with those issues. But they nag at audiences for whom Auburn’s recreation of the pre- and post-Camelot Era of politics either needs nothing but a few passing references for some patrons or an entire dramaturg’s background essay for others.
Summer Shorts More Consistently Funny This Year
City Theatre’s annual rite of the season Summer Shorts has developed a well-earned reputation for being the dictionary definition of “uneven.” So it’s a relief that this 17th edition is the most consistently funny and entertaining in quite some time.
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