Tag Archives: Kravis Center

Imagination, Determination Mark SoFla Theaters’ Varied Efforts To “Re-Open” — In A Way

Drive-in theater, theater behind storefront glass, podcasts: In spurts over 7 months, South Florida theater artists have been preparing experiments online and live, for free, for pay or donations. As many are coming into view this fall, they are coalescing into a new if temporary paradigm that holds out hope for the survival of the genre.

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Arts Garage, Island City Stage, Kravis Center, Miami New Drama, Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Michael Ursua, New City Players, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Slow Burn Theatre Company, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab | Leave a comment

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

Theaters Rolling Out The Titles For 2018-2019 Season, Part 1

If it’s February, then theater companies are taking advantage of the visiting snowbirds presence to announce what they hope will be an enticing slate of titles for the 2018-19 season.

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Arsht Center, Broadway Across Miami, Broward Center, Florida Grand Opera, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach Opera, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Thinking Cap Theatre, Wick Theatre | Leave a comment

MNM’s Witty Little Shop of Horrors Is Open For Business

When entering a theater playing a musical you’ve enjoyed numerous times, it’s comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material are in good hands. Names, for instance, like Mike Westrich, Bruce Linser, Mallory Newbrough, Paul Reekie and Jim Ballard – some of the dependable hands delivering a solid entertaining edition of the delightful Little Shop of Horrors from MNM Productions.

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alan Mencken, Bruce Linser, Gabrielle Graham, Jim Ballard, Kravis Center, Little Shop of Horrors, Mallory Newbrough, Mark Parello Jr., Michael Wallace, Mike Westrich, Nayomi Braaf, Paul Reekie, Peter Librach, Robert Richards Jr., Roger Dunson, Shenise Nunez | Leave a comment

Company Has Shining Moments, Falls Short Of What Could Be

MNM’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical Company is intermittently lit with incandescent performances worth the price of admission by themselves, but the overall piece disappointingly lacks crispness, passion and, until the last 10 minutes, heart.

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Amy Miller Brennan, Bruce Linser, Clay Cartland, Company, Erika Scotti, George Furth, Harold Prince, Jinon Deeb, Josh Kolb, Joshua McKinney, Kravis Center, Larry Alexander, Laura Hodos, Lindsey Corey, Mallory Newbrough, Nicole Kinzel, Paul Reekie, Robert Johnston, Stephen Sondheim, Wayne LeGette | 1 Comment

Go Find Your Grail With Arthur & Company At MNM’s Spamalot

The MNM production of Monty Python’s Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, wallows in the anarchic wacky vibe enshrined in the source material, the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andrew Shultz, Johnbarry Green, Joshua McKinney, Kimberly Dawn Smith, Kravis Center, Laura Hodos, Michael Scott Ross, Mike Westrich, Monty Python's Spamalot, Paul Reekie, Pierre Tannous, Sahid Pabon | 1 Comment

‘Curious Incident’ Brings You Inside The World of Autism

Sometimes stage theatricality more effectively thrusts you inside the head of someone completely alien to your own experience than the hyper-reality of a film is able to convey. A prime example is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime currently in the middle of a criminally short run at the Kravis Center ending Sunday.

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Kravis Center, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Leave a comment

Bullets Over Broadway Tour Is Diverting Musical But Not A Good Mix With Original Film

Bullets Over Broadway, a musical based on the Woody Allen film, fits an undemanding appetite for light entertainment at the Kravis Center. But it’s what some theater fans call a “Why Musical,” as in why bother musicalizing the original near-perfect property.

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Bullets Over Broadway, Kravis Center, Susan Stroman, Woody Allen | Leave a comment