Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
News Briefs: Dramaworks Gets $2 Million; Gepner Goes to Papermill
The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we’ll run a column like this one, containing several items. If we don’t get …
Deborah Sherman’s Role in Mosaic’s Side Effects Has Personal Resonances
Actors are accustomed to carving out the marrow of their lives to provide the psychic building blocks of a performance. But for Deborah L. Sherman, her role as a bi-polar housewife in Side Effects opening this weekend at Mosaic Theatre cuts awfully close to the bone.
Rising Action’s As Bees in Honey Drown Not As Sweet As It Should Be
As Bees in Honey Drown, the first Rising Action production under the leadership of new producing director Andy Rogow, is a few cuts above the company’s typical fare, but is not without its own missteps.
Theater Shelf: New Book Examines August Wilson’s Pittsburgh
A new book serves a sort of tourist guide through the real locations in Pittsburgh that correlate to the scenes in August Wilson’s plays.
Ground Up & Rising Opens Season Saturday with Readings
Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge theater pieces aimed at younger audiences.
A New Day at Rising Action with Andy Rogow and As Bees In Honey Drown
By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping that its sly moniker will add a triple-entendre of meaning, that of a phoenix rising from, if not ashes, then a troubled past. The gay-centric company in Fort Lauderdale is …
Breaking News: Caldwell 2 Cancels First Show
By Bill Hirschman The first production of the new Caldwell 2 @ Mizner tentatively set to open a three-week run on Thursday has been cancelled, Clive Cholerton, artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre said Wednesday. The company had hoped to …
Tarell Alvin McCraney and GableStage Deliver Memorable The Brothers Size
By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at GableStage this month marks the first time his …
Breaking News: New Theatre to Lose Home in December
New Theatre is being evicted in mid-December from its Coral Gables home and is hunting for a new home in Miami-Dade County to continue operating indefinitely. The theater was notified “about a week ago” that all but one building on the west side of the block has been sold to a developer who plans to raze the entire property in early January.
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