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 …

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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.

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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.

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Stage Door’s A Shayna Maidel Flawed But Moving Drama

For immigrants wrestling with cultural assimilation, salvation lies not in burying the past life, but coming to terms with its baggage and its ghosts. Playwright Barbara Lebow illustrated her premise in her 1985 A Shayna Maidel now enjoying an ultimately moving revival at Broward Stage Door. It benefits greatly from a promising performance by Mary Sansone as a shattered Holocaust survivor trying to reconnect with the remains of her family in New York City.

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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.

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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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