Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Beverly Blanchette Receives Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award
Beverly Blanchette, a theater artist and educator who has helped shape the cultural fabric of south Florida for over four decades, will receive the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award honoring significant, long-term contributions to the region’s cultural life and onstage career achievement by performing artists based in South Florida.
Alexa Kuve of Arca Images Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award
Alexa Kuve, the actress, executive producer and artistic director of Arca Images will be the recipient of the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award “recognizing contributions to South Florida theater development by an individual or group, for singular achievement and/or career contributions.”
Kravis Begins Pay To Park
Patrons of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts accustomed to free parking will have to pay to park in its adjacent garage next month in tandem with an end to the free shuttle which many people used to avoid paying to park in downtown West Palm Beach.
Mary Damiano To Receive Charlie Cinnamon Carbonell
Mary Damiano, a long-time arts journalist and critic, will receive the Carbonnell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award honoring an individual who contributes significantly to the support of the arts in South Florida and to the Carbonell Awards program.
Michel Hausmann to be Honored With Vinnette Carroll Award
Michel Hausmann, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, reputedly the largest bilingual theater company in the country, will be honored in November by the Carbonell Awards with the Vinnette Carroll Award.
McKeever Play To Travel Overseas Next Month
Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they’re taking the code with them. Well, they’re taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKeever wrote and Crenshaw directed back in April 2022 at Ronnie Larsen Presents’ production at the Foundry.
Torch Song Is Not What We Expected At Plays of Wilton
Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he could just as easily be a server, or a sales clerk, or a teacher, as is his on-again, off-again boyfriend. As it turns out, that’s the point. More on this later.
New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award
New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County, has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from the Carbonells Awards program. The award recognizes significant achievement by a small theater.
ASC’s Immersive Tarzan Musical Surrounds You In The Jungle
Area Stage Company’s (production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love. This gripping immersive staging surrounds you with the world of the show. The result is a visceral experience that reimagines the jungle not just as a set, but as a space you physically inhabit.
Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players’ Revolutionists
When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big ideas—and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists delivers. But it also surprises, infusing sharp wit and heartfelt humility into its bold exploration of the human condition in crisis running at Main Street Players.
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