Reviews

I Love a Piano at the Wick Theatre

By Jan Sjostrom They really ought to have a starting gun to fire off I Love a Piano.  The song-and-dance tribute to Irving Berlin that opens the season at the at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton races through about …

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Twelve Angry Men judging  at PPTOPA

By Aaron Krause Few plays are as riveting as Reginald Rose’s tense classic drama, Twelve Angry Men. In it, the stakes are sky-high as 12 people must decide whether a stranger lives or dies. Late last year, South Florida theater …

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Lobby Hero opens at Palm Beach Dramaworks

By Jan Sjostrom You might be hard-pressed to identify the hero in Lobby Hero, the 2023-2024 season opener at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. None of the show’s four characters qualifies for Superman’s cape. What Kenneth Lonergen’s chatty …

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Time To Go Into the Woods With Slow Burn

    By Oline H. Cogdill The forest explored in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s vigorous production of the musical “Into the Woods” is the place to be. These woods might seem to be a setting one should fear—and they are. …

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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How I Learned What I Learned opens GableStage’s 25th season

  By Oline H. Cogdill August Wilson was one of the most insightful—if not THE most insightful—chronicler of Black life in America. He found the music in the language of ordinary people, the poetry in the minutiae of daily life. …

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Clark Gable Slept Here at The Foundry in Wilton Manors

      By Aaron Krause Picture yourself almost continuously laughing while maintaining an iron grip on the novel you are reading. Your eyes have remained wide open for so long that your eyelids feel heavy. But you force them …

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine Starr-Kidd at Theatre Lab

By Jan Sjostrom Jasmine Starr-Kidd is having a tough time dealing with her parents’ divorce. In that she’s much like many other 12-year-olds today. But Jasmine has a fix. A science prodigy Jasmine builds a time-travel machine designed to let …

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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MNM’s Five Guys deliver a love letter to Louis Jordan

  By Jan Sjostrom Five Guys Named Moe, the rollicking love letter to the music of Louis Jordan, works its magic in a tuneful production by Marcie Gorman & MNM Theatre Company through Sept. 24 at the Kravis Center’s Rinker …

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Thrill Me makes a riveting musical at Island City Stage

  By Aaron Krause Nobody in their right mind would condone the titular character’s actions in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Yet, we can sympathize with this fictional serial killer. That is mainly because we understand his …

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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Friendships are in season at Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

WOW, Women of Wilton launches its first production By Oline H. Cogdill Love and friendship, grief and death are timeless themes that are the foundation of the entertaining production of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, now running through Aug. 20 at The Foundry, 2306 …

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Bill Hirschman
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