Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
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, …
March shows
March 25 – April 17 The Radiant New Theatre Coral Gables World premiere of Shirley Lauro’s play about Madame Curie, starring Angelica Torn. March 25 The Second City — Fair & Unbalanced Off Broadway in Broward Broward Center for the …
Building a mansion and a world for “August: Osage County” at Actors’ Playhouse
In less than two months, a small cadre of craftsmen has designed and built a three-story house in Coral Gables complete with a study, a wraparound porch, a dining room and a bedroom in an attic that looms 40 feet …
Broward Stage Door shines brilliantly with “Light in the Piazza”
To embrace the risk of hyperbole: The Broward Stage Door production of The Light in the Piazza may be the finest locally-produced musical theater since Floyd Collins at Actors’ Playhouse in 2003. It’s not a perfect edition and it requires …
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