Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Women’s Theatre Project Celebrates Lesbian Themes With Girl Play Festival
If, as La Cage aux Folles’ Zaza suggests looking at life from a different angle, The Women’s Theatre Project’s annual Girl Play series of staged readings June 21-23 examines life from yet another point of view. Girl Play is comprised of three programs featuring readings of 16 short plays with lesbian themes, by straight and lesbian playwrights.
Think Tickets Cost Too Much? How About Free?
Members of the South Florida Theatre League are donating pairs of tickets in a revival of the Free Night of Theater lottery program this summer that encourages people to investigate theaters and/or shows they might not try on their own dime.
Summer Shorts Is, As Usual, A Daffy, Uneven, Goofy Smile
By Bill Hirschman Sometimes for actors, especially playing comedy, the only option is to jump off the cliff and see if you can fly. The miracle is that sometimes, as in City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, is that, indeed, they soar. …
Playing A Dolphin, Dracula and Mothra In Same Show: Everyday Challenge At Summer Shorts
Imagine you’re Ken Clement in City Theatre’s Summer Shorts opening this week. One minute he’s a dolphin, a few minutes later he;s Dracula and still later he has to find his inner Mothra. Performing in the annual festival of short plays, a rite of summer now in its 18th edition, requires talents they don’t dwell on in drama school.
Broward Stage Door’s Brighton Beach Memoirs Stumbles A Bit, But Is Genuinely Touching
Acknowledge that Broward Stage Door’s revival of Neil Simon’s thirty-year-old warhorse Brighton Beach Memories is uneven and stumbles. Then acknowledge, at least this critic will, that Stage Door’s edition frequently reaches into that moldy storehouse of decades-old memories of family relationships — and makes the throat close up, the eyes mist and starts a sudden epidemic of sniffling around the auditorium.
Theatre At Arts Garage and Dramaworks Stage Concert Musicals This Summer
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling in dates on their calendars as well, as early as tomorrow night. Palm Beach Dramaworks and the Theatre at Arts Garage are mounting “concert versions” of musicals – classics in Dramaworks’ case and new works at the Garage in Delray Beach.
Summer Theatre Fest Readings Every Monday Across Region
Get an early look-and-listen to works in progress by local playwrights every Monday night for 18 weeks beginning June 3 at theater across four counties through the South Florida Theatre League/WLRN ‘s Summer Theatre Fest Reading Series.
New Briefs: Lynn University, GableStage and Holocaust Play
Forbidden Fruit Lynn University’s fledgling theater program stays active during the sultry months thanks to the leadership of Jan McArt, its director of theatre arts program development. I’s first program slated for 7:30 p.m. today and 4 p.m. Sunday is …
Talkin’ In The Green Room With: New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez
Actor, playwright, designer, dancer, choreographer, artistic director of New Theatre and probably a few other job descriptions we’ve left out, Ricky J. Martinez is one of the most hyphenate artists in mainstream theater in South Florida. It’s what the affable and passionate Martinez calls being a “theatrician.”
Outre Stages Solid Outing Of Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!
Outré Theatre Company has mounted a smooth and solid production of Jonathan Larson’s other produced work, the semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…BOOM! Built around an impassioned and winning performance by Mike Westrich as Larson’s stand-in, Artistic Director Skye Whitcomb and Music Director Kristen Long have created an emotionally satisfying evening worth the trip to Boca Raton.
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