Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Report From New York: Allegiance The Musical Could Have Been Far More Incisive
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it’s a musical.
Fledgling Marquee Theater’s Songs For a New World Bares The Souls Of Young Adults
Marquee Theater Company’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the “Whatever” generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex and tumultuous as that of any group before them.
News Of Arts Radio Network, FAU Theatre Lab, Lost Girls, Island City & City Theatre
Lots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. New, Newer, Newest Two new play programs are ongoing this …
Irreplaceable Voice of SoFla Theater Christine Dolen Retires From The Herald This Month
If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren’t wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalist for The Miami Herald, formally announced Wednesday that she is retiring from the newspaper on Dec. 18.
Kinky Boots Has Hot Star But Otherwise Not Much Of A Kick
The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbers as if it, too, came off a factory production line.
Hard-Working Cast Can’t Save The Trial Of Ebenezer Scrooge
Actors Playhouse’s production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Brown’s lame script. For one hours and forty minutes (including intermission), the audiences waits and waits for a single new riff in the Scrooge story, even a shred of logic explaining Brown’s basic premise.
Maltz’s Reimagined Billy Elliot Flies Like The Spirit Of Its Hero
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons back.
Report From New York: Yeah, Hamilton Is The Game Changer
From the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become “a hero and a scholar,” Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world of musical theater – and then continues to do it for another 2 hours and 45 minutes.
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