Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Judy’s Back and In Delray Beach At Theatre At Arts Garage
There’s no room for missteps at the intimate Theatre at Arts Garage cabaret. In this production of Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnegie Hall everything is up close and very personal in a creatively re-imagined staging of the show.
Class Struggle And Coping With The Past Makes Good People Great Theater At Gablestage
Cut through the South Boston accents and into the fibers of Good People, and you’ll find that David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2011 Tony nominee is a character study of the finest sort. However, the fact that the lead character, Margie has remained in South Boston’s Lower End should not be understated — this attachment to one’s childhood roots is what forms the foundation of Good People, now at Gablestage.
Wick Theatre Defies Odds To Reopen Boca Raton Venue
In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals’ optimism and pessimism, welcome and suspicion, encouragement and derision. Workers and administrators are racing to transform the site in time for the first performance of The Sound of Music slated for September 19 and the first scheduled museum tour November 5.
Wick Theatre Schedule
Sept. 19-Oct. 20: The Sound of Music Nov. 7-Dec. 22: White Christmas Jan. 9-Feb. 9: 42nd Street Feb. 20-March 23: The Full Monty April 3-May 4: Steel Magnolias: May 15-June 15: Ain’t Misbehavin’ Tickets are $58 per show. $52 …
Wick Auditions
The Sound of Music is cast but the theater is holding auditions for all other roles its other shows for both Equity and non-Equity actors . Sunday, Aug. 4, noon to 5 p.m. by appointment only for principals and singers …
Coconut Grove Project Gets County Okay, But Debts Could Still Sink Deal
The Miami Dade County Commission nudged the resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse one step closer Tuesday by authorizing the mayor to enter into a lease with state officials to reopen a professional theater and educational complex on the site. But persisting problems with debts and claims topping $1.75 million could still scuttle the dream.
Jim Brochu’s Character Man Is Affectionate Amble Through Broadway’s Past And Its Pros
If you’ve dreamed of sitting in the upstairs bar of Sardi’s to hear journeymen trade war stories about Broadway’s past, you can get a taste at Jim Brochu’s new one-man show, Character Man. The veteran New York actor-playwright, who triumphed in 2009 with Zero Hour, spends a couple of acts at Broward Stage Door recollecting his meetings with famous and not-as-famous stalwarts from Jackie Gleason to Jack Gilford, Zero Mostel to David Burns.
Actors Playhouse Rated P For Parenthood Is Frothy Fun
Rated P For Parenthood at Actors Playhouse is a 90-minute hoot that bowed off-Broadway last year strings together almost 30 vignettes that chronologically trace the joys and absurdities of raising a child from conception to empty nesting.
Zero Hour’s Jim Brochu Honors Broadway’s Character Men In One-Man Musical Memoir
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu — best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour — wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly.. So Brochu created a new one-man musical, Character Man, that bows Thursday for a month-long run at Broward Stage Door..
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