Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
1st Stage Festival works announced by Florida Stage
Want to see plays before anyone else? Florida Stage has announced its fifth annual 1st Stage New Works Festival for Feb. 3-6 of staged readings of works-in-progress. In the past, the playwrights have taken the lessons learned from the readings …
“August: Osage County” casting partly announced
Everyone wants to know who’s going to be cast in Actor’s Playhouse production of August: Osage County, set for March 9 to April 10 in Coral Gables. Here’s the partial casting so far for the Pulitzer-winning play that runs three …
A compelling philosophical duel in “Freud’s Last Session”
If you were the kind of college student who sat up till the wee hours with your roommate arguing philosophical questions, you’ll revel in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ intellectual fencing match, Freud’s Last Session. Mark St. Germain’s play, which opened Friday, …
“Goldie” premiere poses tough questions about motherhood at Florida Stage
There was a takeaway moment in the mostly’ comic first act of Florida Stage’s’Goldie, Max & Milk on Friday in which a frazzled single mother, overwhelmed by the challenge of her crying newborn, calls out reflexively in pain and terror, …
Once more with Forbidden feeling
Forbidden Broadway is back at the Arsht Center in town through Dec. 26 for another run of parodies of The Great White Way featuring North Miami Beach native Gina Kreiezmar’s patent-pending impersonations of Ethel Merman, Barbara Streisand, Patti LuPone and …
Beautiful harmonies highlight kitschy “Taffeta Wedding”
If you’re in the mood for a stroll down a musical memory lane, the current production at Broward Stage Door Theatre, A Taffeta Wedding, is right up your alley. A Taffeta Wedding is the fourth show in the Taffetas musical …
Two faces of the same old rudeness
If Sartre was right in No Exit and hell is other people, the next circle of hell would be a theater with rude people. If you’re on this website, you obviously share our hatred of audience members who seem to …
Compassionate “Academy” shows potential amid rough edges and technical glitches
An infectious earnestness and compassion imbue Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Academy, a heartfelt pop chamber musical about the angst of teens struggling toward responsible adulthood. If this world premiere stumbled at times Thursday, director/conceiver Andrew Kato ably led a …
Maltz set to premiere highly anticipated musical, “Academy”
The young Floridians met in the kitchen of a Jupiter dinner theater in 1987 when they made the surprising discovery that they both loved musicals. Today, the former waiter and food server are back in Jupiter with 23 years of …
New play about New Coke fizzles at New Theatre
One thing theater does better than film is put you right there in the room with surreal images that disorient your equilibrium. When it successfully enlists your willing suspension of disbelief and the active participation of your imagination, you can …
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