Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Arts Garage Gets Temporary Reprieve, But Required To Make Major Changes To Continue
Arts Garage received a temporary reprieve from eviction and extinction late Tuesday night from the Delray Beach City Commission, but its long-term existence depends on significant changes to satisfy commissioners’ accusations of financial mismanagement.
Slow Burn Show Is Bittersweet Musical Of Romance, Romance
Despite the title , the musical Romance, Romance is not so much saccharine as bittersweet. In two playlets set in separate times, locales and social strata, we see true love blossom but ultimately surrender to socially-sanctioned cynicism or fidelity to an existing marriage. Slow Burn Theatre Company has found the groove connecting the disparate pieces in which love is precious but doesn’t always prevail.
Next Season: Slow Burn, Actors’ Playhouse, Thinking Cap, Wick, Maltz, Lake Worth, PPTOPA, Bway At Brow Ctr & Kravis
If it’s snowing up north, then it’s time for Florida theaters to announce their 2016-2017 seasons. Among those that have: Slow Burn Theatre Company, Actors’ Playhouse, Thinking Cap Theatre, The Wick Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Lake Worth Playhouse, Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts, Broadway in Fort Lauderdale and Kravis on Broadway.
Diament’s Franz (Kafka) And Albert (Einstein) Debate The Meaning Of Life At New Theatre
If you’re going to stage a dorm debate about the meaning of life, religion, science, suffering, love, guilt, and the loveliness of the universe, it would hard to find two more interesting contestants than Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Playwright Mario Diament’s Franz & Albert does a reasonably intriguing job fictionalizing a meeting that likely happened in 1911 Prague.
Arts Garage In Jeopardy Due To Cash Flow And Withheld Funds
By Bill Hirschman The future of the Arts Garage in Delray Beach is in serious jeopardy, its executive director said, because of a nearly depleted cash flow, crucial operating funds being withheld by a funder and an impossible-to-meet March 15 …
Dramaworks Delivers Harrowing Long Day’s Journey Into Night
At the marrow of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Palm Beach Dramaworks is its compassionate sorrow that the ultimate human tragedy is the death of hope. The final tableau of four devastated souls irrevocably adrift in the fog-bound damnation of inescapable failures and unconquerable frailties is an endgame so harrowing that the audience can hardly breathe.
Tears And Laughter Mark Riverside’s Over The River
It might drip with sentimentality, but Riverside Theatre’s Over the River and Through the Woods will nudge out a few tears and win you over, due in no small part to the handsome and well-acted production.
New Theatre’s World Premiere Footprints Is Earnest But Awkward History Lesson
The world premiere of Miamian Sandra Riley’s badly flawed Footprints at New Theatre clearly establishes the playwright’s deep love and extensive research into the early history of South Florida and the efforts of a real-life married couple to preserve its natural wonders over 35 years. But theater is not a history lesson, even when taught through the lives of loving creative souls who encourage each other’s dreams.
Dancers and Singers Propel Thrilling West Side Story
Actors’ Playhouse pulls out all the stops to mount its annual winter centerpiece production. Director David Arisco molded a troupe of actor-singer-dancers who deliver a vibrant evening remarkable for its prolonged sections of power and verve.
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