Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Main Street Players’ “Rapture, Blister, Burns” Misses Mark
Main Street Players has gifted South Florida audiences with some memorable evenings such as a ferocious True West. But its current production of Rapture, Blister, Burn executed by earnest hard-working artists misses the target.
FGO’s Fellow Travelers Depicts Gay Love In McCarthy Era
Florida Grand Opera’s Fellow Travelers has no overweight heroines or bearded villains. This 2016 intimate-scale opera is set during the McCarthy Era when gays were hunted down. But this affecting tragedy of a doomed love is fraught with as much passion as any tale of a star-crossed Nubian princess and an Egyptian general.
Hollywood’s Homophobic Hypocrisy Examined in The Code
The soul-killing inherent in the film dream factory’s deconstruction and then sanitized reconstruction of its icons has been a popular topic, from 1932’s What Price Hollywood to four versions of A Star is Born. But Michael McKeever’s incisive world premiere The Code at The Foundry attacks it from a different fresh angle that is painfully topical.
Area Stage’s This Is Our Youth Examines A Lost Generation
Area Stage Company travels back to 1982 on an exploration of the sociological jungle of Manhattan as born-rich 20-somethings give birth to the Me Generation in the issues oriented drama with a wry humor in This Our Youth.
Critics’ Bestows Thousands of Dollars In New Play Award
More than $40,000 awarded to four playwrights in the Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
2022 Cappies Noms Announced
The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism, which had to present awards online last year, will return in a live gala celebration at 7 p.m. May 17.
New Look at SNL Behind the Scenes is a Work In Progress
Not Ready for Prime Time, a play by Miamians Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers, have continued working on its script about the creation and early years of Saturday Night Live, postponed due to the pandemic. and now it’s back with a fresh production and a second chance.
You Still Can Have A Jellicle Ball at Strong Cats Tour In Broward
There is still a lot of life in these Cats as the Broadway Across America tour at the Broward Center still manages to charm and, oddly, seem fresh as the various lithe, limber dancer fill the stage. Cats only requires its audiences to just enjoy the moment.
Despite Fine Moments, Guys and Dolls Doesn’t Quite Land
Despite being one of the greatest musicals of all time, Guys and Dolls always poses a difficult make-or-break challenge that determines if a production is mildly entertaining or sublime. So, MNM Theatre Company, which has given us some terrific evenings, delivers some fine individual moments here and there, but they never find that elusive groove.
Dreams Form The Core Of Dramaworks’ Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage’s incisive Intimate Apparel explores a dozen themes simultaneously and all viewed through the prism of race at the turn of the century. But this Palm Beach Dramaworks edition finds a commonality among all of the above: the hope and fear and frustration connected to dreams deferred and dreams realized.
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