Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
And Make Our Garden Grow: Finding The Solutions…
By Bill Hirschman In the film Shakespeare In Love, the producer says theater’s “natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster… Strangely enough, it all turns out well.” When asked how, he says, “I …
Alliance’s Home Sweet Funeral Home Is Imaginative If Uneven
A group of loopy scenarios fuel eight daffy short plays by local playwrights thumbing their nose at Death in an often funny if markedly uneven collection commissioned by the Alliance Theatre Lab entitled Home Sweet Funeral Home.
And Make Our Garden Grow: Finding The Solutions
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
Ya Got Trouble Right Here in River City: The Challenges
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
On the Wheels of a Dream South Florida Theater: What It Is And What It Can Be
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today
Currently Operating Theaters and Producers – Fall 2012
These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at bill@floridatheateronstage.com and we’ll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Actors Playhouse on the Miracle Mile, Coral Gables Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Company, West Palm Beach Adrienne Arsht …
Box Score: Folded Companies Since 1975, Recent Start Ups
The ever-morphing statuses and a lack of historical records guarantee that the following lists will be incomplete or even inaccurate. If you have additional or more accurate information, please email us at bill@floridatheateronstage.com and we’ll update this. PROFESSIONAL/PRODUCING THEATER COMPANIES …
New Theatre’s Collection Keeping A-Breast Is Intriguing, Heartfelt But Badly Uneven
The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what’s happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer’s hot-and-cold reception of Keeping A-Breast at New Theatre – an earnest, heartfelt examination of the agonizing upheaval resulting from breast cancer – is because I’m a man.
Our Special Series On The Present And Future Of South Florida Theater
Florida Theater On Stage is taking a step back in the brief lull in the season to analyze the present and future of South Florida theater in some depth. We’re celebrating our first anniversary with a special series of three extensive essays this week that we hope will prompt the theater community — artists and audiences alike – to examine crucial questions as the region reaches a crossroads: Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail?

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