Author Archives: Bill Hirschman

Cruz’s Sotto Voce About The Past Resounds Loudly Today

Our haunted past never leaves us. Facing crippling tragedy – not suppressing it, not hiding from it – is the only way to come to terms with it. Such a theme may seem almost too familiar, but in Nilo Cruz’s Sotto Voce at GableStage, that truth, especially that first clause, sinks deep in an audience’s viscera with bottomless profundity and pain.

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Audience-Generated Painting Enlivens Plays Of Wilton’s Museum

No question, Plays of Wilton’s production of Museum will never be confused with Great Theater. But that’s not it’s aim. It just wants to have fun. And driven by a high-voltage and high-volume community of energized performers, this wicked satire of self-enthused art enthusiasts is a jovial and broad evening.

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See Lakehousedotpng’s Heartbreaking Premiere {overlap} Before Closing This Weekend

Lakehouseranchdotpng has mounted a touching premiere of Erin Proctor’s {overlap}, a believable, humorous, and poignant production from the nonprofit, absurdist and experimental theater company

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To Life 6 Proves A More-Than-Worthy Successor At The Willow

With a talented and energized cast, and a selection of songs chosen and slotted almost perfectly, To Life 6 entertained for over 90 minutes with hits from the Great American Songbook, a celebration of many of the finest Jewish composers who’ve ever lived.

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A List of Current And Former Theaters in The Region

The region is home to at least  66 professional or semi-professional companies, 15 community theater companies, 13 presenting houses and 11 university-based production companies – and at least 25 theater companies that have closed

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Riverside Combines Music And Comedy In A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

It may be January in Vero Beach, Florida, but for a few hours you can travel to a distant time and place and enjoy a romp in 1909 London. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a musical comedy which fully embraces both music and comedy at Riverside Theatre.

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Broadway Bound is Long And Full of Angst At West Boca Theatre

Broadway Bound at the West Boca Theatre Company finds its supporters among those who enjoy thoughtful family dynamics, literary humor, and Neil Simon’s unmistakable voice. Others may think its is to tied to theatrical tropes to fully enjoy.

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Pompano Players’ Beehive Satisfies As Musical Journey

A sextet of talented performers energetically presents Beehive: The Original 60s Musical. presented by Pompano Players, a jukebox revue capturing the “Swinging Sixties” from the innocence and playfulness early on to the cultural unrest, female empowerment, and activism.

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Greed, Extreme Ambition, Pure Hatred Combine In The Little Foxes

The trifecta of toxicity—greed, extreme ambition and pure hatred—combines in a sophisticated plot in Lillian Hellman’s classic drama The Little Foxes, receiving a stunning production through Feb. 1 at Island City Stage.

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Anger, Wit, Growth, Loss Overwhelm In Zoetic’s Masterful The Inheritance Part 1

Suffused throughout the epic length, depth and breadth of the masterpiece The Inheritance Part 1 gifted here by Zoetic Stage is a profound sense of searching, With fierce anger, incisive wit, inestimable growth and eroding loss, the company elevates, expands and injects lifeforce into the award-winning text.

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