Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Slow Burn’s Urinetown Will Make You Laugh ‘Til You… Well…
Slow Burn Theatre’s production of Urinetown the Musical marks another milestone in the young troupe’s evolution as a reliable purveyor of edgy, offbeat musical theater that few other mainstream companies have the courage to produce.
Boeing Boeing Marks Long-Term Partnership For Promethean & Nova’s Theater Department
Book-learning and collegiate productions provide theater students the basics of the craft they hope to follow, but The Promethean Theatre is providing Nova Southeastern University students with real world experience that is far more rigorous and revealing than class work.
Area Stage’s Snoopy! The Musical Lacks Bark, Bite
Yet, Snoopy! The Musical at Area Stage, the second of two musicals derived from the popular comic strip, Peanuts, just doesn’t have the same pedigree. Its songs are repetitive, its characters are caricatures and its messages are targeted to the Sesame Street crowd.
NE 2nd Avenue Is Funny And Insightful Look Inside Multi-Cultural Miami
Teo Castellanos’ NE 2nd Avenue at the Arsht Center, funny and profound literally at the same time, is a sociological-anthropological field trip as if Castellanos was a hip-hop Margaret Mead. It takes us on a tour of the adjacent neighborhoods on the titular boulevard highlighted by encounters with a variety of inhabitants.
Love, Loss and What I Wore is Gently Funny Celebration of, Well, What You Wore
Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Parker Playhouse is a gently funny and knowing celebration of clothing not as fashion per se, but as talismans, totems and souvenirs that instantly summon associations of moments in our lives.
Promethean’s Boeing Boeing is a Door-Slamming Chuckle
Boeing Boeing is a 1962 farce with doors that slam, swing, shut slowly, burst open in ones, twos and probably threes. Promethean Theatre and its house director Margaret M. Ledford, benter new territory with an out and out comedy that requires skill and discipline. As proven by the copious laughter in the hall, they acquit themselves well.
Carbonell Nominations Announced; Palm Beach County Theaters Score Big
By Bill Hirschman For those who like to read fortunes in tea leaves, the annual Carbonell Award nominations announced Sunday night provide plenty of seeming portents to extrapolate before the April 2 awards ceremony. The most obvious is the numerical …
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