Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Here There Are Blueberries Originated At Miami New Drama Planned For Broadway
Here There Are Blueberries, the Holocaust-related play created and workshopped by Miami New Drama, i is planned to play on Broadway in November,
Three Leaders of Youth Programs Receive Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award
Gary Cadwallader of Palm Beach Dramaworks, Jairo Ontiveros of the Arsht Center and Lori Slade Sessions of the South Florida Cappies will receive the Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award “For Outstanding Contribution to the Health and Development of the Arts in South Florida.”
1922’s Forbidden! — First Major Gay Play Seems Contemporary
What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old play widely believed the first to portray an openly gay character as neither criminal nor amoral.
Arca Images Takes on the American Dream in Spanish ‘Death of a Salesman’
Playwright Nilo Cruz and Arca Images founder Alexa Kuve bring Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, to a Hispanic audience with a Spanish language translation through Sunday
True Mirage Provides Riveting, Thoughtful Carrie: The Musical
Promotional material for True Mirage Theater’s riveting, realistic production of Carrie: The Musical tells audiences to “start Halloween season off right.” But audiences are also doing the right thing by asking “What does it cost to be kind?”
Elena Maria Garcia Receives Carbonell’s Hindman Award
Elena Maria Garcia, the actress-educator-playwright-director whose unique exuberance has enhanced scores of comedies and dramas across the region, has received the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award recognizing “onstage career achievement by performing artists based in South Florida.”
Comedy Plus Serious Side Of Politics In Island City Stage’s Timely Eureka Day
Everything is political—especially now. Nothing, it seems, is beyond political scrutiny as shown in the equally funny, serious and timely Eureka Day at Island City Stage.
Lake Worth Playhouse To Use A $1 Million Donation As Cushion
The Lake Worth Playhouse has received the largest single gift in its history, but won’t use the $1 million on immediate operations. Rather, the money is going into a permanent endowment intended to provide long-term financial security.
Prepare to be Moved by Other Desert Cities At New Theater
There is good theater, and then there is good theater. In short, Other Desert Cities, produced by a relatively new local production company and now playing at Empire Stage, is so much so in the latter category we would be hard-pressed to find anything wrong with it.
Margaret Ledford Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award
Margaret M. Ledford, who has directed at nearly every regional theater in South Florida and helped found several, has received the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award, recognizing “outstanding contribution to development of South Florida theatre.”
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