Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
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 …
Maltz Theatre’s “Crazy for You” closes season with a Gershwin knockout
How infectious is the unrestrained joy spilling over the footlights at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre during Crazy For You? After the curtain calls Thursday, with the band still slamming out I’ve Got Rhythm, the house lights exposed two dozen people …
Critic’s Choice
It’s a very quiet week for openings, although the schedule starts filling up once again after April 1. But one major bow is promising: The Maltz Jupiter Theatre closes its regular snowbird season by investing its customary lush production values …
Learning the craft
Alex Lacamoire, a 1992 New World School of the Arts grad and the Tony Award winner for orchestrations for’In The Heights, is offering a master class in the career theater business for high school and college students at 1 p.m. …
A Wicked cure for high ticket prices
Can’t afford the $154 orchestra seat ticket to the musical’Wicked playing March 30 to April 24 in Fort Lauderdale?. A limited number of tickets will be sold for $25 each in a lottery before each performance at Broward Center for …
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