Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Deadly exposition, uneven cast prove toxic in Curie drama
When you’re a playwright like Shirley Lauro, fascinated by the passionate and flawed human beings under the veneer of textbook history, your enemy is exposition ‘ essential but bloodless information that threatens to clog up the works like hairballs in …
“Addams Family,” “Shrek” and “Lion King” among the Broadway shows next season at Arsht Center
A mildly creepy family will move into Miami just before Halloween this year, that bizarre collection of seeming refugees from a television series and more recent comic horror movie known as The Addams Family. The oddball musical of the same …
“Billy Elliot,” “Beauty and the Beast” coming to Broward Center next season
It took more than two years, but one of Broadway’s biggest hits,’Billy Elliot, is coming to South Florida as the headlining slot in the Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale’s tour schedule for 2011-2012. The uplifting musical about a working-class English boy …
The restless and passionate Angelica Torn looks forward to creating a new Madame Curie
Fascinated by what’s below the surface, hard-working, passionate, simultaneously guarded and vulnerable. Actress Angelica Torn is describing the scientific icon Marie Curie who she will play in the world premiere of Shirley Lauro’s play, The Radiant, at New Theatre this …
Cirque Dreams brings Broadway and the circus to Broward Center
Fusing circus acts and show tunes, Thursday’s one-night-only world premiere of Cirque Dreams Broadway is both a tailor-made celebration of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ 20th anniversary and a very expensive backers’ audition. For two hours, acrobats, aerialists …
Hilarious “Brothers Beckett” is an “Odd Couple” for Generation Z
Brothers Beckett is a scruffy teddy bear of a play about twenty-somethings struggling to find something satisfyingly real and emotionally sustaining in a cold world. It’s also nearly as funny as anything South Florida has produced this season. The world …
Critic’s Choice
Something old and something new graces local stages this week. With the world premiere of Beckett Brothers, David Michael Sirois affirms his place among the burgeoning ranks of Florida playwrights that encompass Nilo Cruz, Michael McKeever, David Caudle, Marco Ramirez …
Carbonell tickets on sale
Tickets are now on sale for the Carbonell Awards ceremony, that event known to insiders as Theater Prom when even stage managers and carpenters put on tuxes and gowns to walk down the red carpet, to pat each other on …
“Donuts” proves compelling yet problematic at GableStage
Two elements injected electricity into GableStage’s entertaining production of Tracy Letts’ flawed script for Superior Donuts: Marckenson Charles’ breakout performance as a street kid with unfettered dreams, plus one of the most convincing brawls ever seen on a Florida stage. …
“August: Osage County” an epic, harrowing experience at Actors’ Playhouse
If words were scalpels, the stage of Actors Playhouse would be slick with blood and viscera. After all, who knows better where to aim the blade than our loved ones? August: Osage County is the epic tragedy of family dysfunction, …
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