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The Best Of Times Is Now: Memorable Moments Of 2014

Here’s a look back at 2014 including a very subjective subjunctive reductive list of outstanding shows, performances and developments guaranteed to make someone unhappy they were not on the list. Take comfort in that there was so much good work that this is the crème de la crème de menthe.

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Abby Perkins, Abigail Berkowitz, Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Mile, Alexander Zenoz, Amy Miller Brennan Anne Chamberlain, Andy Barbosa, Angie Radosh, Antonio Amadeo, Arca Images, Arsht Center, Arts Garage, Assassins, Back of the Throat, Bad Jews, Blythe Gruda, Broward Stage Door, Bruno Vida, Carrie, Centralia, Chaz Mena, Chess, Chris Crawford, Christina Groom, Church, Clark Gable Slept Here, Clay Cartland, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Dana Castellano, David Arisco, Edges, Elizabeth Dimon, Ellis Tillman, Eric Alsford, Ethan Henry, Faiza Cherie, GableStage, Gidion's Knot, H2OMBRE, Hedda Gabler, Hurricane, Island City Stage, Jay Harris, Jerry Gulledge, Jerry Waxman, John Archie, Julie Kleiner, Karen Stephens, Katherine Amadeo, Keith Garsson, Laura Ruchala, Lela Elam, M Ensemble, Mad Cat Theatre, Makeba Pace, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Margaret Ledford, Mariand Torres, Mark Sanders, Michael McKeever, Mike Eidson, Miracle on South Division Street, Mothers And Sons, Murder Ballad, My Old Lady, Natalia Coego, New Theatre, Nicholas Richberg, Nicole Piro, Nilo Cruz, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Parade, Patrice DeGraff Arenas, Patrick Fitzwater, Paul Reekie, Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts, Peter and the Starcatcher, Plaza Theatre, Primal Forces Productions, Ricky J. Martinez, Robert Johnston, Ron Hutchins, Serafín Falcón, Shane Tanner, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Summer Shorts, Sunset Baby, Terry M. Cain, The King and I, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Mountaintop, The Trouble With Doug, The Wick Theatre, Thinking Cap Theatre, Tim Altmeyer, Tom Wahl, University of Miami, Vanessa Elisa, What's New Pussycat, William Hayes, Yoshinori Tanokura, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Nilo Cruz’s Hurricane Swirls With Unbridled Passion, Superb Craft

The tempest dies down, but the emotional tumult rages on in Nilo Cruz’s superbly staged world premiere of Hurricane, getting a criminally brief run at Arca Images in Miami. Rarely do South Floridians see such a highly polished and boundlessly inventive alloy of words, sounds, movement and stage pictures as Cruz does here directing his work.

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andy Barbosa, Arca Images, Hurricane, Lela Elam, Nilo Cruz, Serafín Falcón | 3 Comments

Nilo Cruz Unleashes a World Premiere With His Rewritten ‘Hurricane’ At Arca Images

The devastation from a hurricane outside is only a reflection of the greater emotional destruction already crippling the protagonists in Nilo Cruz’s play Hurricane set for only five performances this week from Arca Stages in Miami.

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Andy Barbosa, Arca Stages, Hurricane, Lela Elam, Nilo Cruz, Serafín Falcón | Leave a comment

New Theatre & Nilo Cruz’s Bicycle Country Is Moving Gem

The quality of New Theatre’s work is famously variable, but every season or so, they deliver a moving, finely crafted gem of theater to be unreservedly proud about. In this case, it’s the production of Nilo Cruz’s, A Bicycle Country, a lyrical tragedy about three friends who escape Cuba on a raft.

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Bicycle Country, Charles Sothers, Evelyn Perez, New Theatre, Nilo Cruz, Ricky J. Martinez, Steven A. Chambers | Leave a comment

New Theatre’s New Season: Two Premieres & Two Edgier Shows But No Shakespeare For Now

New Theatre, which weathered eviction from its Coral Gables home late last year, has announced two world premieres and a late night program as part of its upcoming season at its new home at the Roxy Performing Arts Center. But none is likely to be a work by Shakespeare because of the economic burden of the Bard’s large casts, said Managing Director Eileen Suarez.

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Eileen Suarez, New Theatre, Nilo Cruz, Ricky J. Martinez, Robert Caisley, Roxy Theatre Group | Leave a comment

Hamlet Prince of Cuba Delivers the Bard in English and Spanish

Hamlet, Prince of Cuba is a new version adapted in English by Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and translated into Spanish by Nilo Cruz, the Pulitzer-winning playwright raised in Miami, playing at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center..

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Asolo Repertory Theatre, Hamlet Prince of Cuba, Nilo Cruz, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center | Leave a comment

Jerry Visits Dolly, New Theatre Goes Cruz-ing, Playhouse To Visit Other Desert Cities

Hello Jerry You’d think he’d have seen it enough times, but Jerry Herman, the composer-lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, dropped in on last Friday’s performance of his best-known work at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Herman, a University of Miami grad and …

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Hello Dolly, Jerry Herman, New Theatre, Nilo Cruz, Other Desert Cities | Leave a comment

UM Students, Arsht and Nilo Cruz Join for House of Bernarda Alba

By Bill Hirschman It’s all about synergistic partnerships. The production of The House of Bernarda Alba opening Thursday in Miami is a fusion between The University of Miami and the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, between professionals and theater …

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Adrienne Arsht Center, Federico Garcia Lorca, Henry Fonte, Nilo Cruz, The House of Bernarda Alba, University of Miami | 4 Comments