Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Les Miz & Daniel’s Husband Reap Honors At Carbonell Awards
The tent-pole theater companies in South Florida took home a majority of the Carbonell Awards for excellence Monday night with one major exception – although several up-and-coming troupes had been nominated in an unusually competitive year.
Complete List Of Carbonell Awards 2016 And Statistics
All the winners, nominees and statistics for the 40th anniversary Carbonell Awards presented Monday.
Breaking News: Alyona Ushe Resigns As Head Of Arts Garage
Alyona Ushe, the founding administrator of the embattled Arts Garage in Delray Beach, is resigning to lead a similar Pompano Beach operation in what an Arts Garage spokesman characterized as an amicable, positive step that is pleasing everyone involved.
FGO’s Shattering ‘Passenger’ Shows Why Opera Exists
Florida Grand Opera’s shattering production of Mieczyystaw Weinberg’s The Passenger. explains why opera exists and what it can be.
Arts Garage’s Scorching Smoke Suffused With Sex As A Weapon
Unless you spend hours in the darker corners of the Internet, you have never seen soul scorching theater precisely like Arts Garage’s Smoke, an excoriating tale of sex as a razor-sharp weapon in a war for dominance that has nothing to with pleasure, let alone love.
Locally Derived Diego & Drew Say I Do Is Fluffy Fare Full of Fun
Diego & Drew Say I Do, the new interactive theater wedding show in Broward Center’s Abdo New River Room, is so authentic that a group of Chinese performers from the Cirque Dreams troupe in the audience were under the impression they had been invited to a real wedding.
House Theatre’s Hammer Trinity: 9 1/2 Hours, 7 Acts, 51 Roles, 18-Foot Dragons & A $150 Ticket
There are two crucial and easily misunderstood aspects to comprehend about The Hammer Trinity, a piece of epic storytelling playing eight weekends at the Arsht Center beginning this Saturday, produced by the hyper-imaginative House Theatre of Chicago and commanding a $150 ticket.
Diego & Drew Say I Do, A Locally-Developed Interactive Play Opens In Broward Center
Opening Thursday in the Abdo New River Room is Diego & Drew Say I Do, a twist on the popular Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding in which audience members join in the show and become “guests” at the wedding reception of Diego Torres and Andrew Boudreaux III.
Difficult But Intriguing Musical ‘A Minister’s Wife’ At GableStage
When a company like GableStage takes risks so many others will not, there’s bound to be some triumphs, some failures, and mixed results as in A Minister’s Wife. The local artists give everything they have to pull off this intriguing chamber musical. It’s more the strange choice of a fascinating but flawed property that isn’t easy to love.
Punchline’s So Timely 50 Shades Of Hillary Is Raucous, Irreverent
Regardless of your politics, Punchline Theatre Company’s 50 Shades of Hillary is a treat to relish for the machine-gun comedy and the high octane performances of these four remarkable actors.
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