Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
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 …
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 …
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