Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Love Burns Is Off Beat Comedy About Modern Relationships
Seeing life through the prism of offbeat characters such as the oddballs populating the absurdist comedy Love Burns sometimes helps us perceive the modern world more clearly than any naturalistic drama.The two daffy playlets produced by Thinking Cap Theatre are bitingly funny and sharply critical in their depiction of what passes for romance among twenty-somethings in the 21st Century. We’re laughing at them, but we’re also a little worried at the characters’ shallow definition of love.
See One Man, Two Guv’nors Without Leaving Florida
Floridians can see London/Broadway shows (kind of) without paying for a plane ticket. A film of the original London incarnation of the current New York comedy hit, One Man, Two Guv’nors is playing at 1 p.m. May 19 and 20 at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue.
Report From New York: Visit “Other Desert Cities”
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities takes that staple, the dysfunctional family drama, and amps up the thematic value by linking the group’s shortcomings to the social-political landscape of the past few decades. With a scientist’s observation and a cleric’s compassion, Baitz dissects the same elements of ethics, truth, family and loyalty as Arthur Miller did in All My Sons.
StageBill Blog: It’s Not All Darkness Out There
As the music swelled Monday at Outré Theatre Company’s concert production of tick…tick…BOOM!, a thought kept interfering with my becoming completely lost in Jonathan Larson’s chamber musical. There’s hope.
Take A Ride In Wry & Rueful Becky’s New Car At Playhouse
Steven Dietz’s insightful script, David Arisco’s assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky’s New Car at Actors Playhouse that will give your mind something substantial to mull over long after the house lights come on.
Actors Playhouse Fills Inside Straight With Parenting Musical
Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater described the 90-minute show in which a quartet of performers …
Janaro Play Reading At GableStage On Monday
The Closet, a play by Miami writer Richard Janaro, gets a reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables.
McConnell and Blanchette Receive Randolph A. Frank Prize
Gordon McConnell, Billy Bell and Beverly Blanchette have been honored for their achievements in the arts by the Judith Lanier Waldrop Frank and Randolph Adams Frank Foundation
Report from New York City: Catch This Streetcar
As unassailable as television actress Nicole Ari Parker is as the wounded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, Emily Mann’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire leaps like it was hit with a cattle prod every time Blair Underwood erupts into a scene.
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