Tag Archives: Andy Rogow

No Mystery Here: Irma Vep is a Madcap Hoot at Island City

Andy Rogow is the director of Island City Stage’s The Mystery of Irma Vep, but were he a less humble man, he might also take the title of chief illusionist or conjurer. For the production is nothing if not a magic show, a self-aware cornucopia of tricks from a creakier, more analog time of stage wizardry.

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andy Rogow, Bruce Linser, Island City Stage, Larry Buzzeo, The Mystery of Irma Vep | Leave a comment

Island City Wrestles Challenging Suddenly Last Summer

Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer presents a considerable challenge for theaters to pull off with its quirky characters, its quirkier premise and its total abandonment of theatricalized naturalism in favor of unabashed symbolism. Island City Stage should be commended for the courage to tackle this work at all and considerable praise for wrestling it to an acceptable draw.

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andy Rogow, Angie Radosh, Carol Caselle, Christian Vandepas, Island City Stage, Jeanine Gangloff Levy, Jonathan Furedy, Lisa Kay King, Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams | Leave a comment

Cancelled, Postponed, Understudies: The Show Goes On In SoFla Theater — Sort Of

The calendars in South Florida theater are being written in pencil—with erasers. Regional theaters are forging through the Covid spike with no panic and limited public fuss, but with a total lack of certainty of anything—cancelling performances, jettisoning titles, postponing productions a week, a month, a year; inserting swings; and calming ticket buyers by email.

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andy Rogow, Bari Newport, Covid, David Arisco, Geoffrey Short, Island City Stage, Julie Jacobs, Marilyn Wick, Matt Stabile, Patrick Fitzwater, Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts, Slow Burn Theatre Company, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

2021-22 SoFla Theater Will Be A Season Of Asterisks (Part 3 of 3)

The show will go on for SoFla theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why this season will be unlike any other: from COVID to diversity. While local theaters survived the past 17 months the coming season may determine whether every Florida company will still be here a year from now.

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Andy Rogow, Barbara Stein, Boca Stage, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Island City Stage, Keith Garsson, Kelley Shanley, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marilynn Wick, Martin Childers, Matt Stabile, Michael McKeever, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Sue Ellen Beryl, Theatre Lab, Wick Theatre, William Hayes, Zoetic Stage | 1 Comment

2021-22 SoFla Theater Will Be A Season Of Asterisks (Part 2 of 3)

The show will go on for SoFla theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a 3-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about awhy this season will be unlike any other: from COVID to diversity. While local theaters survived the past 17 months the coming season may determine whether every Florida company will still be here a year from now.

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

2021-22 SoFla Theater Will Be A Season Of Asterisks (Part 1 of 3)

The show will go on for SoFla theater, but 2021-22 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why this season will be unlike any other: from COVID to diversity. While local theaters survived the past 17 months the coming season may determine whether every Florida company will still be here a year from now.

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In

PART TWO: One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue how Act Three will play out. In this first of two parts, leaders from local companies and venues a limn this tale of confident hope and chilling fear, cold balance sheets with seven digits in the red, and blue sky imagining what theater will look like in two, three, 18 months.

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Andy Rogow, Arsht Center, Barbara Stein, Bree-Anna Obst, Broward Center, Christopher Demos-Brown, COVID-19, David Arisco, Island City Stage, Judith Mitchell, Kelley Shanley, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marilynn Wick, Miami New Drama, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael McKeever, Michael Spring, Michel Hausmann, Nicole Stodard, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, William Hayes, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In

PART ONE: One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue how Act Three will play out. In this first of two parts, leaders from local companies and venues a limn this tale of confident hope and chilling fear, cold balance sheets with seven digits in the red, and blue sky imagining what theater will look like in two, three, 18 months.

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features, General | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Andy Rogow, Arsht Center, Barbara Stein, Bree-Anna Obst, Broward Center, Christopher Demos-Brown, COVID-19, David Arisco, Island City Stage, Judith Mitchell, Kelley Shanley, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marilynn Wick, Miami New Drama, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael McKeever, Michael Spring, Michel Hausmann, Nicole Stodard, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, William Hayes, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Island City’s Satirical Musical Altar Boyz Is A Grin-Fest Hoot

Franklin Graham, the homophobic alt-right son of Billy Graham, just finished a revival tour of Florida this weekend. Too bad he didn’t attend the revival of the musical Altar Boyz at Island City Stage that energetically, if gently, teases boy bands and evangelistic Christian pop rock by infusing a decidedly gay undercurrent. It would have driven him crazy.

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Altar Boyz, Andy Fiacco, Andy Rogow, Brian Varela, Chris Robertson, Island City Stage, Jarrad Biron Green, Jonathan Furedy, Sahid Pabon | 1 Comment

Lipstick Is Exactly What It Wants To Be: A Silly, Stupid Sex Farce

Island City Stage, which focuses on gay-themed work, apparently thought it was time to revive the genus of the British sex comedy with the world premiere of Lipstick, whose primary twist is that the farce centers on lesbians and the gay men in their orbit.

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Abby Nigro, Andy Rogow, Christina Alexander, Corey Rose, Dean Nigro, Island City Stage, Lane Michael Stanley, Lipstick, Peter Bisuito, Rachel Gil de Gibaja, Vanessa Elise | 1 Comment