Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
New Theatre fills slot with one-woman show
With barely enough time for rehearsals, New Theatre in Coral Gables has filled the TBA hole on its schedule for Jan. 28-Feb. 13. Carbonell winner Barbara Sloan will perform in the one-woman comedy High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian, directed by …
February Shows
Feb. 16-27 Zero Hour Double Chai Theatrical Series (Mazel Musicals at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center) Feb. 17-Mar. 13 Eclipsed Women’s Theatre Project (Fort Lauderdale) Feb. 17-20 An Evening with Lucille Ball: Thank You for Asking Broward Center Biographical play …
Dramaworks’ audience responds to Freudian therapy
Palm Beach Dramaworks has taken the unusual step (for a subscription house in Florida) of extending its production of’Freud’s Last Session until Feb. 13 because shows have been selling out. Tickets available at (561) 514-4042 or’www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
Broward Stage Door announces populist 2011-2012 season
Florida theaters are famous for delaying announcing their next season because of protracted negotiations for rights, jockeying to counter-program other theaters, vying to get the rights to the latest Broadway hit and a dozen other reasons. Not so at Broward …
Broward Stage Door’s middling “Mame” delivers the music but not the wit
Any production of the musical Mame, regardless of its other strengths and weaknesses, rises and falls on the sequined shoulders of its leading lady. Broward Stage Door’s mildly entertaining edition is both elevated and hampered by its star Tara Michelle …
Top 10 Shows of 2010
2010 was a moving year for South Florida theater. Not moving in the quality of its productions, although there was plenty of that. Moving as in geographical relocations, announced and completed. The year marked Florida Stage moving to the Kravis …
Even with its inanities, its hard to fight the feeling for “Rock of Ages”
When the great-grandmother in row K stopped clapping to the music long enough to take her glow light out of her purse and wave it weakly in the air Tuesday night, you knew that Rock of Ages had succeeded in …
Sex and the single senior: Sharon Gless opens up about new play at GableStage
Sharon Gless is afraid ‘ an appropriate irony since her role in the play A Round-Heeled Woman is partly about not allowing fear to rob you of a fulfilling life. Despite having acted on stage several times, the television icon …
Broadway’s lights not so bright in February
Timing isn’t just everything in theater, but theater-going as well. I’m going to New York City in early February for the American Theatre Critics Association’s mid-year professional development conference, which is usually a tax-deductible way to go see theater. (Burglars: …
Big hair and lots of guitar coming to the Broward Center with “Rock of Ages”
The creators of the musical Rock of Ages know that the 1980s were a decade of big hair, spandex and metal studs, but above all, it boasted music that celebrated the joy of wretched excess. In these darker days, audience …
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