Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Alliance Raises Money For Brothers Beckett With Bowling,Pasta and Indiegogo
The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series March 7-24. But the cost of such a production …
Zev Buffman Sees No Mystery In Producing Agatha Christie’s The BBC Murders In Florida
South Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater — in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are too big for local theater troupes and too small for Broadway tours. And he wants to do it in part by reviving the genre of mystery/thriller plays. Local audiences will see his first foray this month with his production of Agatha Christie’s The BBC Murders, four radio plays lost for a half-century, uncovered by Buffman’s detective work and adapted by grafting full-fledged theater techniques onto a vintage radio drama foundation.
Hirschman On Five Minutes to Curtain Tuesday and Friday
Florida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher and Jerry Jensen’s 5 Minutes to Curtain …
Maltz’s Singin’ In The Rain Sure Dances Up A Storm, But It Doesn’t Touch The Soul
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin’ In The Rain has no soul. It’s a funny, diverting, two-dimensional cartoon.
McCraney’s Streamlined Hamlet Embraces The Music of the Bard
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure if distilled Shakespeare. It honors the music of the Bard’s language, but places an equal premium on actors communicating a line’s meaning rather than being mindlessly captive to the poetry.
Finstrom, McKeever, Clancy & Stuart Get Full Workshops In Jan McArt’s New Series
Jan McArt’s Theatre Arts Guild Florida New Play Workshop will give a platform through this spring to four playwrights: Tony Finstrom, Michael McKeever, Dan Clancy and Jay Stuart. The productions at Lynn University in Boca Raton are an expansion of the play reading series that McArt hosted recently including Murder on Gin Lane by Finstrom.
Zoetic Stage’s Funny, Poignant All New People By Zach Braff Scores As One Of Season’s Best
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we’re exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage’s hilarious and touching All New People. What Zoetic Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and his quartet of actors do with Zach Braff’s material is masterful in comic timing, narrative pacing, inhabiting characters, line readings, excavating meaning, variety of tone yet unity of approach, you name it.
News Briefs: Lost Girls Play Reading And Dramawork’s Concert Of Camelot
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre’s All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In The Rain, Cirque du Soliel’s Totem and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Hamlet at …
The World Goes ‘Round Best When Everyone’s On Board At Broward Stage Door
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway’s most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes ‘Round
The Interview Is Even Better The Second Time Around
Four years ago, The Women’s Theatre Project mounted Faye Sholiton’s The Interview about the persisting damage that the Holocaust wreaked across generations. As solid as the first production was, this edition is a significantly deeper, more moving rendition elevated by acting that has only become richer with time. This likely stands among the company’s finest offerings.
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