Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Theater Shelf: Lend Me a Tenor & The Trumpet of the Swan CDs
Brad Hathaway, our critic of CDs, DVDS and books related to theater, has been busy this fall looking at a large number of potential additions to your library. We’re going to start running several over the next two weeks as …
GableStage Plans Annual Outdoor Winter Shakespeare Festival With McCraney and Royal Shakespeare Company
GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve building a temporary outdoor amphitheater in Miami-Dade County.
New Theatre’s Twain and Shaw Not Engrossing Enough
Bill Schwartz as Twain listens to Stephen Neal as Shaw holding forth / Photo by Eileen Suarez By Bill Hirschman An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enough to build an engrossing evening in …
Promethean Sponsors Theater for Kids
The Promethean Theatre, best known for its thought-provoking and irreverent fare, is continuing its children’s programming this season with Jingles, Jokes & Jollies: A Tropical Holiday on Saturdays this month. The one-hour program is designed to appeal to children ages …
Flynn’s Play Color the Sky Gets NYC Reading
President of the Palm Beach Theater Guild Patrick Henry Flynn, who has been heading the effort to preserve and reopen the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, is in New York to hear a free reading of his play Color …
Playwriting Group Meets
Playwriting Group Meets The Playwrights Drama Group, affiliate with the Writers’ Network of South Florida, will hold readings of its members’ short plays on Monday, Dec. 12, in Fort Lauderdale. The group, which usually meets the second Monday of the …
New Theatre’s Twain and Shaw Not Engrossing Enough
An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enough to build an engrossing evening in New Theatre’s world premiere of Chambers Stevens’ comedy, Twain and Shaw Do Lunch.
Maltz’s Joseph is Lavish, Energetic and Winning
By Bill Hirschman The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s almost profligately lush, unflaggingly energetic and totally winning edition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will thankfully make you forget any of the dozen high school, church or amateur productions that may …
Stage Door’s I Love A Piano Is Very, Very Familiar Berlin Revue
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door’s production of I Love a Piano can’t help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits infectious joy during the last 15 minutes. But for frequent theatergoers who have seen songbook after songbook, year after year, decade after decade, the doctor diagnoses a new malady: revue fatigue.
Maltz’s Joseph Uses Technology to Wrangle a Cast of 240 — Kids
In what may be the first massive melding of junior thespians and advanced technology, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s staff has employed cyberspace and digital information to manage the logistical nightmare of creating and training eight separate children’s choirs for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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