Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
The not-so-Big Easy
Another piece of major casting news: Ever since New Theatre announced it would mount Tennessee Williams’ iconic A Streetcar Named Desire to close its season in May, veteran theatergoers and actors sat around various bars guessing who was going to …
Fort Lauderdale native nabs starring role in a LaBute Broadway debut
When Heather Jane Rolff was trying to make it in New York City in 2004, she and a friend went to see Neil LaBute’s off-Broadway biting social satire Fat Pig. ‘I remember sitting in that theater bawling my eyes out,” …
Sanchez play up next at Promethean Theatre
‘ The scrappy Promethean Theatre in Davie is careful not to announce the dates for a new show, let alone a title, until it has the money to bankroll the production show. So, hot off the press: Promethean will hold …
Miamian Westfall to have play published in anthology
Theater may be an ephemeral art form, but playwrights have a slightly better shot at immortality if they can get their work published. Susan ‘Susi’ Westfall , one of the founders of City Theatre and its Summer Shorts program, will …
“Spelling Bee” proves wry and endearing, even with appallingly ignorant audience members
The authors of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee know that inside the most self-assured, accomplished adult are hidden the whispers we endured on the cusp of adolescence that insisted we were misfits eternally doomed to be outsiders. The …
“Les Miz” revival is a show not to miss at the Broward Center
Is it worth buying a ticket to the 349th road show of the allegedly retooled production of Les Miserables that opened Tuesday at the Broward Center where there’s likely an entire wall with graffiti from companies that have trundled to …
Dated “Sister George” makes for long, dull evening at Rising Action Theatre
If you’re planning to see The Killing of Sister George at Rising Action Theatre, load up on the caffeine.’ You’ll need it. With three acts and two intermissions, The Killing of Sister George clocks in at two and a half …
State Theatre Project’s “Billboard” pushes agenda, but not the envelope
In his wry protest against consumerism, playwright Michael Vukadinovich asks the question: Can love survive a clash of art and capitalism? The State Theatre Project was founded just over a year ago with a stated mission to present socially relevant …
Glorious singing lifts Maltz Theatre’s “Sound of Music”
Put away the insulin. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music may have a few flaws, but cloying schmaltz isn’t one of them. Instead, the classic gets a musically resplendent production that respects the difference between genuine …
Donna McKechnie returns to Florida in February
Donna McKechnie, one of Broadway’s most beautiful and talented dancers, brings her one-woman show to South Florida for three performances next month. My Musical Comedy Life, a song and dance memoir she has toured, will play at The PlayGround Theatre …
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