Tag Archives: Marilynn Wick

What South Florida Theater Will Look Like When It Reopens

As a handful of local venues gingerly tried to reopen in recent weeks and others prepare detailed plans for the future, a regimen of detailed protocols ranging from parking to popcorn to Playbills is emerging in documents that define what performing arts events in South Florida may look like for customers, artists, staff and vendors when theaters can reopen fully.

Posted on July 14, 2020 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, Johann Zietsman Martin Childers, 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, Johann Zietsman Martin Childers, 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

News: Thinking Cap Beats Bway, Danis Leaves FGO, FIU Fosters Plays, Knight Offers Grants, Costume World Moving, Krasja Now BAA President

News of Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Knight Foundation, Broadway Across America and Costume World

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Broadway Across America, Costume World, Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Justin Moss, Knight Foundation, Marilynn Wick, Susan Krasja | Leave a comment

Betting ‘All In:’ Act 2 As The Wick Theatre Buys Its Home

On April 28, Marilynn Wick will sign a $5 million mortgage and take formal possession of the former Caldwell Theatre building, heralding the beginning of a new phase of The Wick Theatre.

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Marilynn Wick, Missy McArdle, The Wick Theatre | Leave a comment

Looking Back At South Florida Theater’s 2015: Taking Chances Financially And Artistically

2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, a kidnapper forcing her captives to learn nonsense, a tsunami engulfing a Japanese village, a green-gunked survivor of toxic sludge singing love songs to his blind librarian girlfriend. You know, just another year for regional theater in South Florida.

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Aida, Alexander Dinelaris, Alexandria Lugo, Ali MacGraw, Alliance Theatre Lab, Always... Patsy Cline, Ana Villafane, Andrea Burns, Andy Rogow, Andy Senor Jr., Ann Marie Olson, Anne Chamberlain, Antonio Amadeo, Arsht Center, Arts Garage, Avi Hoffman, Barbara Sloan, Beverly Blanchette, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bruno Vida, Buried Child, Casey Dressler, Christian Vandepas, Christina Groom, Christine Dolen, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Collin Carmouze, Darrick Penny, Ellie Patterson, Emilie Papp, Emmanuel Schvartzman, Fully Committed, Genie Croft, Giordan Diaz, Gypsy, Henry Gainza, Infinite Abyss, Island City Stage, J. Barry Lewis, Jen Chia, Jessica Brooke Sanford, Joanna Penny, John Manzelli, Joseph Adler, Kaitlyn O'Neill, Katherine Amadeo, Keith Garsson, Kunya Rowley, Laura Hodos, Lauren Bell, Lee Roy Reams, Levis Jewish Community Center, Lewis J. Stadlen, Lindsey Corey, Lindsey Johr, Lou Tyrrell, Love Letters, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marckenson Charles, Marilynn Wick, Mark Della Ventura, Marquee Theatre Company, Matthew Korinko, Melissa Minyard, Mia Matthews, Michael McKeever, Michiko Kitayama Skinner, Natalie Caruncho, New Theatre, Nick Duckart, Nick Santa Maria, Niki Fridh, Nilo Cruz, On Your Feet!, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beaches Theatre, Patrick Fitzwater, Paul Louis, Paul Tei, Rick Pena, Rob Donohoe, Robert Johnston, Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Ryan Didato, Ryan O'Neal, Scott Shiller, Shane Tanner, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Small Membership, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Stephen G. Anthony, Tally Sessions, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Little Dog Laughed, The Wick Theatre, Thinking Cap Theatre, Vanguard Sanctuary for the Arts, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Hello, Dolly! At The Wick, Lee Roy Reams Asks If “It Takes A Woman” To Play Dolly Levi

It’s not a drag show. Broadway veteran Lee Roy Reams may become only the second man to play Dolly Levi in a sanctioned production of Hello, Dolly! when it bows this week at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, but he is committed to playing it straight.

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Gower Champion, Hello Dolly, James Clow, Jerry Herman, Lee Roy, Lewis J. Stadlen, Marilynn Wick, Susan Powell, The Wick Theatre | 1 Comment

Wick Theatre Proves Itself With Solid Soaring Sound Of Music

To answer the question that most folks are wondering after The Wick Theatre’s bow Friday night: Yes, there is a credible, substantial new player in town. The inaugural production of The Sound of Music has the feel of a fully-realized no-excuses production because it is, indeed, a polished, three-dimensional work of theater.

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ann Marie Olson, Jeffrey Bruce, Krista Severeid, Marilynn Wick, Michael Ursua, Renee Elizabeth Turner, The Sound of Music, The Wick Theatre, Tony Lawson | 1 Comment

The Wick Theatre Woos Former Caldwell Patrons At Reception

The Wick family doesn’t want to exorcise the Caldwell Theatre; they want to embrace it – and its clientele. An open house Tuesday hosted about 200 former Caldwell patrons seeking a peek ahead of the Sept. 19 opening night of The Sound of Music.

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Kimberly Wick, Marilynn Wick | Leave a comment

Wick Theatre Defies Odds To Reopen Boca Raton Venue

In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals’ optimism and pessimism, welcome and suspicion, encouragement and derision. Workers and administrators are racing to transform the site in time for the first performance of The Sound of Music slated for September 19 and the first scheduled museum tour November 5.

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features, News | Tagged Broadway Costume Collection, Caldwell Theatre Company, Kimberly Wick, Marilynn Wick, Wick Theatre | 4 Comments