Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Caldwell and Entr’Acte theaters to join forces for large-scale musical, “City of Angels”
An informal business arrangement between the Caldwell Theatre and Entr’Acte Theatrix has solidified into a formal partnership that will culminate in a large-scale co-production next season of’City of Angels. The newly-formed Artistic Alliance joins the 35-year-old Boca Raton theater fighting …
Actors’ Playhouse to mount dark, challenging musical “Next to Normal”
If you thought the Actors’ Playhouse production of’August: Osage County was taking a gamble outside its audience’s comfort zone, now comes news of a much bigger risk. Next to Normal, the rock-flavored musical about a suburban housewife struggling with bipolar …
“Dusk” delves into bittersweet regret at the Mosaic Theatre
A reunion or any trip back home, is fraught with danger: We see how far we’ve come, but we’re rarely where we thought we’d be or as far along as we once hoped. Stephen Belber’s emotionally dense drama Dusk Rings …
“The Sparrow” takes flight with a stunning theatrical take on adolescent angst at Arsht
Early in’The Sparrow, teenagers stand at the cusp of a railroad embankment as a roaring freight train hurtles past them inches away. It’s an exhilarating reminder of classic adolescence when you dare Fate to challenge your invulnerability. The fact that …
Tamarac Theatre announces ambitious lineup for next season
The Tamarac Theatre Of Performing Arts is taking on some large cast shows which require superb leading men and women for’the 2011-2012 season it announced this week. Bye Bye Birdie, the Eisenhower Era musical poking fun at those darn teenagers …
Is canned music really all that bad?
‘Is it real or is it Memorex’ went the old commercial for recording tape, a reference to whether people could tell the difference between live sound and recorded sound. The truth was that it was, in fact, pretty easy to …
Kravis Center announces 2011-2012 season
A family you don’t want to see move in next door, naked hippies, cross-dressing chorus boys (or girls), the ghost of Frank Sinatra and those singing revolutionaries will be bused in to West Palm Beach during next season’s slate of …
April shows
Through May 1 Dusk Rings A Bell Mosaic Theatre Plantation Stephen Belber (author of Tape) depicts a middle-aged couple who had an adolescent fling and suddenly run into each other. ‘Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two …
“Blasted” is the big winner at the Carbonell Awards
[UPDATED] Blasted, the harrowing drama that pushed the boundaries of mainstream theater in South Florida, won five Carbonell Awards for GableStage at the 35th annual ceremony Monday night. Sarah Kane’s blistering indictment of humanity’s proclivity for violence won awards for …
Once is not enough
If you can’t get enough of Avi Hoffman in GableStage’s’Superior Donuts, producing artistic director Joseph Adler is loaning his stage to Hoffman for two Saturday matinees of’Still Jewish After All These Years: A Life In the Theatre. Hoffman, renowned for …
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